As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Direction Générale des Entreprises (DGE) is organizing, with the support of the Hub France IA and Numeum, an event at the heart of the Global Industrie industrial trade show, in Paris Villepinte: The “AI Village”, which started on May 17 and will end this May 20. Germany and France, which had launched an APP on February 3, 2021 to “Boost the supply of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for risk prevention, crisis management and resilience in 3 application areas,”announced there funding of 17.5 million euros for the five selected projects.

The AI Village

Start-ups and large groups have the opportunity to present their initiatives and solutions around AI during this event, which aims to put AI at the heart of the digital transformation of industry and businesses in France and Europe and to position AI technologies as levers of productivity, operational excellence and growth.

It aims to:

– promote a concrete European initiative on AI ;
– Demystify and publicize AI use cases for industry and business;
– create commercial synergies between companies;
– strengthen the links between the European ecosystems of AI for industry through meetings and exchanges between companies, professionals and academics.

During these four days, five roundtables around the technological challenges of AI for industry, strategies to adopt, on trusted AI, its adoption by companies as well as on European regulation in AI are planned. In addition, business meetings have been set up to enable companies to establish business relationships.

The pitches take place at the French Pavilion where the five winning projects of the Franco-German JPA on AI, which aims to make our societies more resilient to various ecological, health or economic and industrial crises, have also been presented.

The winners of the Franco-German JPA

Under the Treaty of Aachen, signed in 2019, France and Germany began a collaboration in the field of AI and launched this call, 25 projects bringing together 119 partners were submitted, five selected who thus obtained this funding of 17.5 Million Euros.

They are:

The project AIOLOS Artificial Intelligence Tools for Outbreak Detection and Response.

AIOLOS aims to integrate a wide variety of data sources and develop new AI-based models to monitor and detect the emergence of new outbreaks, predict their future development, assess the impact of different interventions, and define the health resource requirements to control these outbreaks.

Partners: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V. (GER), Umlaut Consulting GmbH (GER), CompuGroup Medical SE & Co KGaA (GER), Quinten (FR), Sanofi Pasteur (FR).

The CONTRAILS Project – Contrails in the Climate System: from Observation to Impact Modeling and Prediction

The objective of this project is to develop and couple trusted AI methods and physical models to improve the identification, characterization, data assimilation and prediction of contrails. The results of this project will provide tools to monitor the impact of contrails on climate and help inform future experimental tests of trajectory optimization by preventing their formation.

Partners: Deutscher Wetterdienst (GER), Thales Research & Technology (FR), Reuniwatt SAS (FR), Laboratoire atmosphères, milieux, observations spatiales (FR).

The RenovAIte project – Boosting the renovation industry with AI.

RenovAlte will provide AI-based software to optimize large-scale housing and road renovation. It will cover the entire value chain, from data acquisition to decision making tools for design offices, housing and road management departments of local authorities.

Partners: OFFIS – Institut für Informatik (GER), VIA IMC GmbH (GER), Action Logement (FR), ALEIA (FR), Leonard (FR).

The GreenBotAI project – Frugal and adaptive AI for flexible industrial Robotics

This project has three main objectives:

• ensure continuous production in Europe during pandemics,
• ensure European sovereignty in terms of production automation
• reduce the environmental impact of European factories – by reducing the energy consumption of robotic applications by 50%.

These objectives are to be achieved by developing an intelligent system that should allow industrial robots to adapt to the needs of the production line, to handle complex and laborious tasks and thus improve working conditions, to control defects during material handling and to reduce the installation and training phase.

Partners: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (GER), Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences (GER), GrAI Matter Labs SAS (FR), Arts et Métiers (ENSAM LIPSEN) (FR)

Translated from La France et l’Allemagne débloquent 17,5 millions d’euros pour financer les cinq projets lauréats de leur APP commun