EUSAiR: Kick Off Meeting
Palazzo Del Monte Gaudenzi
Bologna
From January 23 to 24, 2025, the launch event for the European project EUSAiR will take place in Bologna at Palazzo Gaudenzi (Via Galliera, 3).
EUSAiR aims to support the implementation of AI regulatory sandboxes across the EU as mandated by the AI Act. The project focuses on providing standardized frameworks, technical and legal capacities, and fostering cooperation among Member States. It also aims to ensure broad access to sandboxes for AI innovators, particularly SMEs and startups, by reducing compliance costs and market barriers. EUSAiR plans to coordinate the implementation of these sandboxes, offer support to national authorities and innovators, develop guidelines, analyze results for future regulations, engage stakeholders, and collaborate with existing AI initiatives. By fostering multi-disciplinary engagement and emphasizing SME access, EUSAiR envisions a network of sandboxes involving various key players in the AI ecosystem. The project's innovative approach incorporates policy advocacy, independent analysis of sandboxes, involvement of large European digital infrastructures, engagement with SMEs and innovation networks, interdisciplinary research competencies, and scalable training models. Additionally, EUSAiR aims to enhance legal certainty, support regulatory compliance, promote accessibility to AI markets, and facilitate cross-border sandbox development while nurturing evidence-based regulatory learning through pilot projects involving SMEs and AI providers. A backbone of the project is synergizing with other Digital Europe initiatives, in particular in regard to the the value of conducting sandbox pilot tests within diverse, large-scale digital infrastructures, mostly of a public nature. This strategy ensures comparative analysis of pilots and fosters an environment where processes can operate independently and effectively engage with national authorities, especially in infrastructures that must function independently of AI-provider contexts.
