ARCHER
The ARCHER project aims to organize a five-year technological challenge to evaluate and advance research on Human Language Technologies (HLT) for defense applications. It includes data collection and annotation, experimental evaluation campaigns, and fosters collaborations at a European level, supporting defense and strategic needs.
The Institute for Language and Speech Processing of Athena RC is responsible for collecting, annotating, and managing linguistic datasets required for the evaluation campaigns, as well as for developing tools and methodologies for the effective evaluation of HLT systems.
ALT-EDIC4EU
The ALT-EDIC4EU project aims to facilitate the development of robust, scalable infrastructure and operations for ALT-EDIC, in order to support the federation of the Language Technology (LT) ecosystem. Building on the expertise of nine core partners in LT infrastructures, data spaces, and Large Language Models (LLMs), the project focuses on creating a European center for LT evaluation, dynamically mapping the European LTs and LLMs landscape, and organizing training sessions, workshops, and events.
ALT-EDIC4EU addresses the need to strengthen Europe’s ecosystem around AI and LLMs, ensuring greater autonomy in data use and sharing, while preserving linguistic diversity and reducing dependence on non-European technologies.
The project will be running for 48 months with funding from the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL-2024-AI-06 call).
ILSP will contribute to all project activities with a focus on the infrastructure deployment and mapping of the LT landscape.
LLMs4EU
The LLMs4EU project is dedicated to preserving and promoting Europe’s rich linguistic and cultural diversity in the digital age, through cooperation between economic and academic actors in the field of generative AI.
Key objectives of the project include:
- Establishing a one-stop shop for language data to generate value for developers of Large Language Models (LLMs) and ensure fair benefit-sharing with data owners.
- Stimulating the ecosystem to develop language models tailored to specific languages, sectors, and use cases, while reducing barriers to entry for new users and developers.
- Overcoming technical and operational hurdles to enable the creation of LLMs for all official EU languages, as well as for low-resource regional languages across member countries.
- Designing and launching the ALT-EDIC Virtual Evaluation Centre, a cutting-edge platform for the transparent evaluation and benchmarking of LLMs.
- Ensuring alignment with EU data and AI regulations, promoting trustworthy, fair, and ethical AI practices.
The project is led by ALT-EDIC (Alliance for Language Technologies – European Digital Infrastructure Consortium) and carried out by a broad consortium of leading research centers and companies specializing in language data management, LLMs and language technologies. The partnership also includes representatives from five key sectors: tourism, telecommunications, science, public services, and energy.
ILSP is a core partner in LLMs4EU, actively contributing to all major project activities. ILSP leads the work package responsible for the collection and processing of language data and the development of the project’s data infrastructure – critical components that underpin the project’s success.
ECHOES
1. CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS (CNRS)
2. CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR)
3. FONDATION DES SCIENCES DU PATRIMOINE (FSP)
4. STICHTING EUROPEANA (EF)
5. INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (PSNC)
6. IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS (FORTH)
7. FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV (Fraunhofer),
8. Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium (KIK-IRPA),
9. THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE (CyI)
10. UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA (UPC)
11. HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO (UH)
12. ÖSTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK (ONB)
13. MEDIA SOLUTION CENTER BADEN-WURTTEMBERG E.V. (MSC-HdM)
14. STICHTING NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOORBEELD EN GELUID (INSV)
15. ARIADNE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE (ARIADNE RI)
16. DEUTSCHER MUSEUMSBUND EV (NEMO)
17. CONFEDERATION EUROPEENNE DES ORGANISATIONS DE CONSERVATEURSRESTAURATEURS (E.C.C.O.)
18. CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL DES MONUMENTSET DES SITES ASSOCIATION (ICOMOS)
19. RESEAU EUROPEEN POUR LE MANAGEMENT ET LES POLITIQUES CULTURELLES (ENCATC)
20. STICHTING ARCHIVES PORTAL EUROPE FOUNDATION (APEF)
21. COMISSAO NATIONAL PORTUGUESA DO CONSELHO INTERNACIONAL DE MUSEUS (ICOM-PT)
22. STICHTING EGI (EGI)
23. DIGITAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (DARIAH)
24. CLARIN ERIC (CLARIN)
25. ETT SPA (ETT)
26. SPARNA (SPARNA)
Associated Partners:
1. CY CERGY PARIS UNIVERSITE
2. UNIVERSITE DE TOURS
3. CENTRO DI RICERCA, SVILUPPO E STUDI SUPERIORI IN SARDEGNA SOCIETÀ A RESPONSABILITÀ LIMITATA
4. FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
5. Institut national du patrimoine
6. VERENIGING EUROPEANA NETWORK
7. FONDAZIONE PIN - POLO DI PRATO UNIVERSITA DI FIRENZE
8. PRISMA CULTURA S.R.L.
9. UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
10. UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
11. NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
12. CENTAR ZA DIGITALNE HUMANISTICKE NAUKE
13. ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS
14. OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
15. DA NEXT SRL
16. A SRL
Partners:
1. FERENCIA DE RECTORES DE LAS UNIVERSIDADES DEL SUROESTE EUROPEO
2. E MACHINE ORGANISATION (TMO)- ORGANISATION FUR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT IN TECHNOLOGIE UND WISSENSCHAFT UND KULTURELLEM ERBE
3. VERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN
4. CHTING LIBER
5. IONAL ARCHIVES OF HUNGARY
6. SANTIKVARIEAMBETET
7. HAEL CULTURE
8. NATIONAL GALLERY
9. ERSITY OF YORK
3D-4CH
- Expert Guidance and Validation: Insights from a prestigious Advisory Board of international scholars and a Stakeholder Panel of CHI representatives will ensure scientific rigor and practical relevance.
- Sustainability and Accessibility: A comprehensive long-term data strategy rooted in open access, interoperability, and licensing standards will guarantee that all resources remain available for at least five years post-project.
- Global Inspiration: A model for international collaboration and technological excellence that demonstrates the power of cultural heritage will strive to unite and inspire.
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3D-4CH
3D-4CH is an ambitious and forward-thinking initiative designed to transform how cultural heritage is preserved, digitized, and shared for educational and societal benefit. This groundbreaking project unites the rich history and cultural diversity of the European Union and Ukraine with cutting-edge technologies, setting a new benchmark for digital heritage innovation.
Τhis Centre aims to elevate the role of 3D digitization and advanced technologies in cultural preservation. It also looks to the future with forthcoming collaborations like XRculture and 3DBigDataSpace, ensuring a constantly evolving ecosystem of tools, services, and expertise.
The Online Competence Centre for 3D is more than a repository — it is aiming to be a vibrant hub for innovation, collaboration, and learning. Designed as a fully online platform, it will bring together leading cultural heritage institutions, researchers, and practitioners to unlock the full potential of 3D technologies.
The Competence Centre for 3D will deliver:
- Expert Guidance and Validation: Insights from a prestigious Advisory Board of international scholars and a Stakeholder Panel of CHI representatives will ensure scientific rigor and practical relevance.
- Sustainability and Accessibility: A comprehensive long-term data strategy rooted in open access, interoperability, and licensing standards will guarantee that all resources remain available for at least five years post-project.
- Global Inspiration: A model for international collaboration and technological excellence that demonstrates the power of cultural heritage will strive to unite and inspire.
By blending advanced technologies with a deep respect for cultural diversity and historical significance, the Online Competence Centre for 3D promises to redefine how we preserve and experience our shared heritage.
The project consortium comprises 20 partners, led by INCEPTION SRL, and eight associate and affiliated partners, Athena RC being one of them.
ARTEMIS
Cultural heritage sites face constant threats from pollution, climate change, and the wear and tear of time. Preserving these treasures is a major challenge, as traditional methods can be costly and sometimes ineffective. There is also the risk of irreversible damage during restoration. New solutions are needed to protect these sites for future generations. In this context, the EU-funded ARTEMIS project steps in with a high-tech approach, using digital twins and augmented reality/virtual reality technology to conserve cultural heritage. By creating detailed 3D models, ARTEMIS can simulate real-world conditions and test preservation methods virtually. This allows experts to predict how different strategies will impact the sites, helping to protect these valuable assets more safely and efficiently.
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1. CNR
2. ARIADNE RI
3. DARIAH
4. INFN
5. KIK-IRPA
6. UoY-ADS
7. PIN SCRL
8. Athena RC
9. ZRC SAZU
10. LNEC
11. HOF
12. UNIFI
13. AUEB-RC
14. UNIBO
15. SEL
16. PRISMA
17. PIXELATED
18. HOLAVR
19. NUMENA
20. PHASMATIC
21. AEDEKA
22. INCEPTIONAssociated or collaborating bodies:
1. CENTRO PER LA CONSERVAZIONE ED IL RESTAURO DEI BENI CULTURALI LA VENARIA REALE FONDAZIONE
2. OPIFICIO DELLE PIETRE DURE
DataGEMS
Data is an asset that spurs innovation, drives decision making, improves operations and impacts science, environment, health, energy, education, industry, and society in general. Nevertheless, the expanding sea of data remains mostly unexplored and underutilized. The EU-funded DataGEMS project aims to change that by offering a next-generation dataset discovery and management ecosystem that will provide algorithms to make datasets discoverable, combinable and explorable. DataGEMS develops state-of-the-art data management, natural language processing and machine learning technology to discover and analyze datasets of different data modalities such as tabular data, text documents, knowledge graphs, and images. The main goal is to gain new insights into vast amounts of complex, heterogeneous data sets by providing intuitive tools. DataGEMS promotes data FAIRness in key areas such as education, meteorology and linguistics.
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1. ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS (ATHENA)
2. UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA (UNIVR)
3. INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE BRAGANCA (IPB)
4. ETHNIKO ASTEROSKOPEIO ATHINON (NOA)
5. CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS (CNRS)
6. DUALE HOCHSCHULE BADEN-WURTTEMBERG (DHBW)
7. COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES EXPERTS ANONYMOS ETAIREIA SYMVOULEFTIKON KAI ANAPTYXIAKON YPIRESION (CITE)
8. UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE (UPCité)
9. FUNDACION CENTRO DE SUPERCOMPUTACION DE CASTILLA Y LEON (SCAYLE)
10. IDEGO GROUP SP ZOO (IG)
11. LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR DEUTSCHE SPRACHE (IDS)Associated or collaborating bodies:
1. INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE
2. UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
3. ZURCHER HOCHSCHULE FUR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN
4. LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR DEUTSCHE SPRACHE
ATRIUM
ATRIUM will exploit and strengthen complementarities between leading Εuropean infrastructures: DARIAH, ARIADNE, CLARIN and OPERAS in order to provide vastly improved access to a rich portfolio of state-of-the-art services available to researchers across countries, languages, domains and media, building on a shared understanding and interoperability principles established in the SSHOC cluster project and other previous collaborations. Research infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities domain must cater to a very wide range of stakeholders and offer services that cut across discipline-specific boundaries.
ATRIUM will tackle this heterogeneity within the Arts and Humanities by going deep and wide at the same time: on the one hand, ATRIUM will make a groundbreaking contribution to the consolidation and expansion of services, including data services, specifically in the field of archaeology, while, on the other hand, facilitating access to a wide array of essential text, image and sound-based services that benefit a number of other disciplines within the Arts and Humanities, and cover all phases of the research data lifecycle (creating, processing, analyzing, preserving, providing access to and reusing).
Athena’s contribution
Athena (ILSP and IMSI) participates in the following tasks, coupled with the relevant demonstrators:
- speech recognition on non-native English speech and noisy/low-quality recordings,
- application of automatic linguistic processing workflows (tokenization, PoS tagging lemmatization, and named entity recognition on the transcribed spoken data produced),
- overview of data and metadata formats, schemas, ontologies and controlled vocabularies used in the Arts & Humanities domain, aiming at semantic interoperability between catalogues and repositories,
- metadata harmonisation and enrichment – geotagging of texts and collaborative reusable map annotation,
- ontology-driven extraction of work processes from published articles in Archaeology and other Humanities fields.
Additionally, Athena undertakes a significant activity which aims to facilitate access to research facilities in the Art and Humanities with a complimentary offer of advanced technologies and local expertise; to enhance researcher mobility and cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer of best practices throughout Europe; and to provide specific transnational training and access linked to the new types of Arts and Humanities data showcased in the project.
ARIADNE Research Infrastructure
Athens University of Economics and Business
Centar Za Digitalne Humanisticke Nauke / Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities
Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN ERIC)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – National Research Council (CNR)
Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH ERIC)
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)
Institut National De Recherche Eninformatique et Automatique (INRIA)
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) / National Laboratory for Civil Engineering
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Open Access in the European Area through Scholarly Communication
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
PILLAR-Robots aims at developing a new generation of robots endowed with a higher level of autonomy, that are able to determine their own goals and establish their own strategies, creatively building on the experience acquired during their lifetime to fulfil the desires of their human designers/users in real-life application use-cases brought to TRL5. To this end, the project will operationalize the concept of Purpose, drawn from the cognitive sciences, to increase the autonomy and domain independence of robots during autonomous learning and, at the same time, to lead them to acquire knowledge and skills that are actually relevant for operating in target real applications. In particular, the project will develop algorithms for the acquisition of purpose by the robot, ways to bias the perceptual, motivational and decision systems of the robots’ cognitive architectures towards purposes, and strategies for learning representations, skills and models that allow the execution of purpose-related deliberative and reactive decision processes. Given the aim of reaching TRL5, PILLAR-Robots will implement and validate demonstrators of purposeful lifelong open-ended autonomy using the resulting Purposeful Intrinsically Motivated Cognitive Architecture within three different application fields characterized by different types and levels of variability: Agri-food, Edutainment, and unstructured Industrial/retail. PILLAR-Robots will perform a complete evaluation of the possibilities and impacts of purposeful lifelong open-ended autonomy in these realms from an operational perspective, but also from a market-oriented (with significant productivity gains) and societal (socio-economic, ethical and regulatory) perspective. Engagement of industry and SME players is also expected in order to prepare the ground for further large-scale demonstration.
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