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The CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Centre of Scientific Research) is the largest public research organization in France, with around 1,100 services and/or research units throughout the country. As a multidisciplinary institution, it covers all fields of scientific research, driving various programs and actions designed to address society and industry expectations. The specific team (https://www.lirmm.fr/ganesh-gowrishankar/) involved in AI4CCAM is based at the Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM) in Montpellier and specialize in the investigation of human interactions around and with machines.
ROLE IN AI4CCAM
CNRS will utilize neuroscientific experiments to analyze and develop behavioral models of VRU behaviors in the vicinity of automated vehicles. These will be integrated with AI based techniques developed by other partners to enable improved hybrid models to predict VRU behaviors and that are more trustworthy.
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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is the National Supercomputing Centre in Spain. It manages and transfers technologies and knowledge ofHigh-Performance Computing to advance scientific areas, particularly Computing, Life, Earth and Engineering.
ROLE IN AI4CCAM
The BSC coordinates the WP3 “Trustworthy AI for CCAM: Ethical, Social and Cultural Implication” and is part of the Executive Board. Based on the experience of the H2020-funded project AI4EU, BSC will raise awareness and promote best practices to achieve responsible AI through workshops and co-creation methods to identify ethical dilemmas and risks.
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With over 50,000 engineers and digital experts worldwide, Akkodis is a global leader in the engineering and R&D market leveraging the power of connected data to accelerate innovation and digital transformation.
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Akkodis is partner in the autonomous driving landscape transformation by coordinating the largest Work Package on Use Case Implementation and Validation. Beyond contributing to various tasks, the Akkodis team is particularly eager to tackle Explainable AI (XAI), Panoptic Segmentation and heterogenous context-aware Trajectory Prediction.
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UITP (Union Internationale des Transports Publics) is the International Association of Public Transport and a passionate champion of sustainable urban mobility. Established in 1885, with more than 135 years of history, it is the only worldwide network to bring together all public transport stakeholders and all sustainable transport modes.
ROLE IN AI4CCAM
In AI4CCAM, UITP leads Task 5.1, the Stakeholder Engagement, Dissemination and Liaison Activities, and contributes to the market analysis and exploitation roadmap. Furthermore, due to its extensive experience in CCAM projects, UITP brings to the project hands-on experiences from large-scale demonstrations in public transport and potential future applications.
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Skoda Auto a.s. (SA) is a Czech automobile manufacturer founded in 1895. It is now a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group and produces a range of cars. SA is known for its reliable and affordable vehicles with a focus on practicality and technology.
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Nowadays activities result in big experience with test drives not only in real world but also in virtual world. This makes SA strong partner in development of complex scenarios’ set that shall include also ethical cases and be a challenge for the AI-based model of ADAS.
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Deepsafety is an AI Safety company, solving the fundamental safety problem of Deep Learning AI. The output of such AI systems is undefined for data the AI has never trained before. This is holding back many industries, especially autonomous driving.
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Deepsafety is working on advanced AI models for trajectory predictions and residual risk calculation. In AI4CCAM, they will develop a multi-model architecture for predicting movements of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) including awareness, uncertainty, and risk measures as input for the subsequent planning instance of the Autonomous Driving System.
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TeraLab (part of a French engineering school Institut Mines-Télécom) is an AI and data platform for research and innovation, providing an experimental, sovereign, neutral, and secure-by-design technical infrastructure and related data-driven services.
ROLE IN AI4CCAM
TeraLab’s role in the project is threefold. First, to lead data management strategy, which is crucial whenever AI tools and models are being developed. Second, to connect this project to various data spaces, leveraging their role within European data spaces ecosystem. Third, to provide computing infrastructure to the project use cases.
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IMT is France’s leading public group of engineering and management graduate schools, under the supervision of the French Ministry of Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty. It conducts higher education and cybersecurity research.
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The role of IMT in the AI4CCAM project is to provide cybersecurity expertise, from requirements elicitation to verification of enforced security mechanisms. IMT will also contribute to identify ethical concerns and protection challenges, as well as AI risks, threats, and data biases.
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BVA is a global consulting firm of experts in Behavioural Science who design research programs geared towards behavioural change. BVA gathers data insights and converts deep understanding of customers and citizens into behaviour change strategies.
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Within AI4CCAM, BVA will gather insights to identify levers and barriers to the adoption of AVs and provide expert recommendations accordingly to the other members of the consortium. They will design behavioural science-based interventions (Nudges) founded on primary and secondary research (both qualitative and quantitative).
