AI4VET4AI - AI-powered Next Generation of VET [June 15, 2023 - June 14, 2017 | Erasmus+]
Science is clear: Artificial Intelligence will be the defining development of the 21st century. Experts estimate that due to the rise of AI within only 2 decades aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. The influence of AI is about to challenge the very organizing principles of our economic and social order. It can generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education, but it can bring existential perils for life as we know it. This makes the EC2020 report that the EU is lagging behind USA and Asia in AI-adoption and development all the more worrying. Among many reasons behind that, the lack of skilled work force is definitively one of the more prominent ones. The objective of AI4VET4AI is to contribute to the digital transformation of the EU labor market by adding new innovative teaching content and methods to VET curricula across 11 European countries and 18 EU NUTS2 regions, in order to support the growth of AI-skilled workers. We start from the ground up: we investigate the most potent sectors for AI-deployment in our 17 regions, and for those sectors, in close cooperation with enterprises and their cluster organizations we create 14 MOOCs and TT materials that can easily be implemented in VET programs (IVET and CVET). We organize 11 innovative AI VET campuses and 7 VET innovation AI incubators, in which VET learners hone their creative and entrepreneurial skills. We use project activities to connect partners closely and to raise awareness of the AI potential in our regions among representatives of public and private sector, as well as civil society. In turn, this helps us to create a joint and active platform of concerned EU citizens and institutions, interested, informed and motivated in supporting AI development further -- this being the basis of our ambitious CoVE - Center of Vocational Excellence, which aims to attract many more institutions (HEIs, VETs, companies, agencies, individuals) in its pursuit of sustainable, inclusive and just AI-powered future for all. Website
EMPATHIC - Empathic, Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly [November 11, 2017 - April 30, 2020 | H2020-EU.3.1.4.]
The EMPATHIC Research & Innovation project researches, innovates, explores and validates new paradigms and platforms, laying the foundation for future generations of Personalised Virtual Coaches to assist elderly people living independently at and around their home. Innovative multimodal face analytics, adaptive spoken dialogue systems and natural language interfaces are part of what the project aims to innovate, in order to help dependent aging persons and their carers. Project Site
vAssist - Voice Controlled Assistive Care and Communication Services for the Home [December 1, 2011 - November 30, 2014 | AAL Joint Programme]
The goal of the vAssist project was to provide specific voice controlled Home Care and Communication Services for two target groups of older persons: Seniors suffering from chronic diseases and persons suffering from (fine) motor skills impairments. The main goal was the development of simplified and adapted interface variants for tele-medical and communication applications using multilingual natural speech and voice interaction (and supportive graphical user interfaces where necessary). Project Site