This call seeks to support researchers (PhDs, Post-docs, Senior Researchers or Group of Researchers) willing to undertake short-term (3 to 6 months) research residencies within ENFIELD’s network of Centres of Excellence.
Selected applicants will contribute to foundational AI research aligned with one or more of ENFIELD’s four pillars and four industrial domains by responding to pre-defined scientific challenges listed below:
GREEN AI
G-AI.1 Technological Symbioses and Rebound Effects with AI
G-AI.2 Green AI Indexing for Efficient Image and Point Cloud Retrieval
G-AI.3 Energy-Efficient Multi-Agent AI for Code Generation in Digital Twin Understanding
G-AI.4 How Green is Physics-Informed Machine Learning?
ADAPTIVE AI
A-AI.1 AI-Enhanced Visual Understanding for Inspection and Maintenance
A-AI.2 Efficient Continual Learning Systems
A-AI.3 Lifelong Learning and Fine-tuning in LLMs
A-AI.4 Flexible plastics sorting system based on the combination of multiple vision sensors and adaptive AI
A-AI-IDM.5 Batch pattern mining in industrial signals
HUMAN CENTRIC AI
HC-AI.1 Empowering Human-AI Decision-Making through Real-Time User Modeling
HC-AI.2 Interpretability and uncertainty in predictive models
HC-AI.3 Human-Centric Explainable AI for Critical Digital Infrastructure
HC-AI.4 Human-Centered Causal Machine Learning for Real-World Decision Support
HC-AI.5 Explainable AI Methods for Human-AI Decision Making
TRUSTWORTHY AI
T-AI.1 Security and Robustness of AI systems
T-AI.2 Privacy and Compliance of AI systems
T-AI.3 AI in Distributed systems
T-AI.4 Enhancing User Trust in AI-powered Chatbots using UBM
T-AI.5 Trustworthy ML based scheduling for the energy domain
T-AI.6 Unified approach to assess safety and security of AI systems
T-AI.7 LLM Safety and Security
Researchers can also choose to address several verticals :
ENERGY
IDE.1 AI for Green Energy curtailment minimization
IDE.2 Explainable fault detection and classification in power grids Combine AI with LLM for clear human interaction with complex data LLM based data queries and visualization
MANUFACTURING
IDM.1 Adversarial Robustness Metrics and Evaluation for AI-Driven Safety Systems
IDM.2 Bias-aware People Detection: Quantifying and Mitigating Dataset and Model Biases Towards Safety Certification
IDM.3 Explainable Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making for AI Systems in Manufacturing
IDM-A.AI.4 Multimodal AI for Human-State Monitoring
IDM-A.AI.5 Egocentric perception for shopfloor operators
SPACE
IDS.1 Detection of potential water illegal abstractions using Artificial Intelligence and Earth Observation
IDS.2 Causal Machine Learning model to identify agricultural practices aiding in yield productivity improvement using Earth Observation (EO) data
IDS.3 Advancing Eelgrass Monitoring Using Stationary High-Altitude Balloons and Hyperspectral AI-based Earth Observations
IDS.4 Enhancing natural disaster response through satellite-based earth observation and language models
Fundamental research on Green AI, Adaptive AI, Human-Centric AI, and Trustworthy AI
What is in for selected candidates ?
– Opportunity to carry out top-level research activities in partnership with distinguished research institutions and industry entities.
– Chance to network and benefit from mutual exchanges, feedback and collaboration with peers and various experts in the AI field.
– up to 14.400€ in financial support (up to 6 months).
– Visibility and promotion.
The following researchers are invited to submit their proposals for ENFIELD Exchange Schemes:
• PhD candidates (who demonstrate their enrolment in a PhD programme).
• Post-docs and senior researchers who demonstrate their employment at a university, research centre or business entity.
In case of a group of researchers applying the team needs to be composed by a minimum of one senior researcher + one PhD candidate.
To be eligible to apply to the open call, researchers must be employed at academic or research organizations based in EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries, as follows:
•The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their outermost regions.
•Horizon Europe associated countries: according to the updated list published by the EC.
