EUSAiR: Kick Off Meeting

23 Jan 2025, 09:00 → 24 Jan 2025, 16:00 Europe/Rome

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 (Alma AI, Sala Kelsen, Via Galliera 3) https://maps.app.goo.gl/2sgU3ZaNekW6rU9FA 

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.

Thursday, 23 January

09:30 → 10:00 Registration

Convener: ICSC

10:00 → 10:30 Day 1: Welcome and institutional addresses

Conveners: ICSC, UNIBO

10:30 → 10:50 Day 1: Informal Partners roundtable

Convener: ALL

10:50 → 11:20 Day 1: WP1: Coordination and Project Management

Convener: ICSC

11:20 → 11:50 Coffee Breack

11:50 → 12:20 Day 1: Introducing the roadmap of EUSAiR

Conveners: ICSC, UNIBO

12:20 → 12:50 Day 1: WP2: Union AI Regulatory Sandbox Framework, Advisory and Regulatory Learning

Convener: ALLAI

12:50 → 13:50 Lunch break

13:50 → 14:20 Day 1: WP3: Operational Sandbox Scheme

Convener: BSC

14:20 → 14:50 Day 1: WP4: Sandbox Pilots, Tuning and Scaling-up

Conveners: ICSC, UNIBO

14:50 → 15:20 Day 1: WP5: Training

Convener: UNIBO

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 16:20 Day 1: WP6: Communication, Dissemination, Exploitation, and Co-creation Platform

Convener: LOBA

16:20 → 16:50 Day 1: Administrative and financial issues, including deliverables

Convener: ICSC

16:50 → 17:20 Day 1: Free Discussion and Wrap Up

Conveners: ICSC, UNIBO

20:00 → 22:00 Social Dinner

Friday, 24 January

09:00 → 09:20 Day 2: Project Officer talk - Livio Rubino (remotely)

Convener: ALL

09:20 → 09:40 Day 2: Clustering EUSAiR with "twin" projects: NoLeFa

Convener: Lauriane Aufrant (INRIA, NoLeFa coordinator)

09:40 → 11:00 Day 2: Working groups - discussion - results sharing

Convener: ALL

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:00 Day 2: Next Steps and Wrap Up

Conveners: ICSC, UNIBO

12:00 → 12:40 Day 2: General Assembly

Convener: ALL

12:40 → 14:10 Lunch & ending