Projects

SensAI: Advancing AI Ethics and Human Rights in Low-Resource Language Processing

01/2025 – 06/2026

The SensAI project is dedicated to bridging the gap between AI technology, human rights, and ethics, with a special focus on low-resource languages. SensAI builds upon the ALFIE project, expanding…

EMA: Explainable Malware Analysis

01/2025 – 06/2026

EMA is a Recovery and Resilience Plan project aimed at explainable malware analysis.  KInIT collaborates with universities in Slovakia – Comenius University and Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. With…

NSlant: Understanding Media Slants and Their Impact in the Digital Age

12/2024 – 02/2025

In today’s digital era, the Internet has become the main source of news for the masses. Although it offers unprecedented access to an enormous amount of information, such digital abundance…

GEPERO: Generation of personalised content in the research of information quality

01/2024 – 06/2026

The GEPERO project is focused on research and development of new methods and models for the generation of personalised texts in multiple languages, dedicated to the research of information quality…

RobIndAI: Robust indication of AI-generated disinformation content in multilingual online space

11/2024 – 06/2026

The RobIndAI project will fight against the misuse of AI for disinformation text generation by increasing the robustness of methods for machine-generated text detection. RobIndAI is focused on multilingual content,…

AI-Auditology: Social Media AI Algorithms Auditing

08/2024 – 06/2025

The goal of the AI-Auditology project is to fundamentally change the oversight of social media AI algorithms, like recommender systems or search engines, and their tendencies to spread and promote…

DisAI-AMPLIFIED: Progress in Multimodal Prediction and the Use of Interactive Fact-Checking to Support Disinformation Combatting

07/2024 – 06/2026

We are thrilled to announce that KInIT has received support for DisAI-AMPLIFIED, a significant extension of our ongoing Horizon Europe DisAI project. With DisAI-AMPLIFIED, we are excited to push the…

DisTraceAI: Better determination of the presence of narratives in automatically analyzed content on the web

07/2024 – 06/2026

The DisTraceAI project will help to address the need to detect ongoing disinformation campaigns by exploring effective methods for detecting the presence of narratives in textual content. The project aims…

HERMES: Trustworthy Multi-Objective and Multi-Stakeholder Recommenders

07/2024 – 06/2026

The HERMES project aims at researching and proposing state-of-the-art recommender system methods for Trustworthy Multi-objective and multi-stakeholder (MOS) environments. It will particularly focus on the domains of e-commerce and social…

CEDMO 2.0: Central European Digital Media Observatory

05/2024 – 10/2026

In the wake of escalating disinformation challenges across Central Europe, CEDMO 2.0 emerges as a strategic initiative of government, media, industry and NGO entities. Building upon the success of its…

AI-CODE: AI services for Continuous trust in emerging Digital Environments

12/2023 – 11/2026

AI-CODE is a Horizon Europe project aiming to research and develop novel generative-AI-based solutions dedicated to media professionals and thus support creation and dissemination of trustful and credible online content….

ExU: AI Models for Examining Multilingual Disinformation Narratives and Understanding their Spread

11/2023 – 04/2025

Rumor stance classification and claim retrieval are vital in combating disinformation. They help assess information credibility by determining its stance on a claim. These tasks streamline fact-checking, making it efficient…

Modermed: Multimodal Detection of Toxic Behavior in Social Media

07/2023 – 06/2027

Modermed is a research project funded by the Slovak Research and Development Agency that will allow KInIT and the Technical University of Košice to research AI methods for detection of…

TECHNE: Philosophical and methodological challenges of intelligent technologies

07/2023 – 06/2027

Together with the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, we will analyze contemporary philosophical and methodological issues of AI systems and intelligent technologies in general. Intelligent technologies…

DisAI: Improving scientific excellence of KInIT in AI and language technologies to fight disinformation

12/2022 – 11/2025

We succeeded in Horizon Europe’s Twinning scheme and joined forces with leading research institutions in natural language processing and disinformation combating. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), University of…

Societal Biases in Slovak AI: Gender Biases

11/2022 – 10/2023

AI systems, if not used properly, can exhibit discriminatory or intolerant behavior towards certain people. We know almost nothing about biases in AI models working with Slovak language. KInIT succeeded…

VIGILANT: Vital IntelliGence to Investigate ILlegAl DisiNformaTion

11/2022 – 10/2025

VIGILANT is a Horizon Europe project aimed at application of data collection and AI-based web content analysis methods to support police authorities in investigations of disinformation-related crime. In this project,…

vera.ai: VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence

09/2022 – 08/2025

vera.ai is a Horizon Europe project aimed at basic and applied research of AI methods to fight false information. The vera.ai project focuses on textual, multilingual and multimodal content, and…

Eyes4ICU: Eyes for Information, Communication and Understanding

09/2022 – 08/2026

Eyes4ICU is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network within the Horizon Europe program. A network of seven universities and research institutions trains 12 doctoral students. It is aimed at exploration of novel…

QVIRE (Cultural AI): Detecting quire marks from digital facsimiles of medieval manuscripts for their further analysis

7/2022 – 3/2023

At KInIT, we strive for excellence and multidisciplinarity and the QVIRE project contributes to this goal. QVIRE is a multidisciplinary collaboration with historians where we bring historical documents to life…

MIMEDIS: The impact of media discourse on attitudes towards migration

07/2022-06/2026

KInIT joins forces with the Comenius University in Bratislava to analyse the impact of media discourse on attitudes towards migration, migrants and migration policy in Slovakia. Over the last decades,…

Explainable AI: theory and a method for finding good explanations for (not only) NLP

04/2022 – 09/2022 02/2023 – 09/2023

In two phases of this project, we addressed the problem of finding a good post-hoc explainability algorithm for the task at hand. First, we researched the theory behind what’s a…

CEDMO: Central European Digital Media Observatory

10/2021 – 03/2024

As EDMO sets the frame for Europe, the aim of CEDMO is to implement an unprecedented, but highly experienced hub against disinformation for the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. Its…

TAILOR: Foundations of Trustworthy AI – integrating, learning, optimisation and reasoning

09/2020 – 08/2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown at an unprecedented pace in the last decade. It has been applied to many industrial and service sectors, becoming ever-present in our everyday life. Digital…

EUDHIT: Shaping Europe’s Digital Future Through Human-Centric Innovation

05/2025 – 10/2027

The European Digital Humanism Initiative (EUDHIT) supports Europe’s transition towards more resilient, inclusive, and democratic societies, rooted in the principles of Digital Humanism. The initiative promotes responsible innovation, helping start-ups,…

lorAI: Advancing KInIT into a leading research and innovation hub in low-resource artificial intelligence

03/2025 – 02/2031

The main objective of the lorAI project is to upgrade the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT) to a leading R&I institution in low-resource artificial intelligence (LRAI) in Slovakia and…

ALFIE: Enhancing Ethical AI Through Dialogue and Innovation

1/10/2024 – 30/9/2027

The ALFIE project combines an EthiTech Dialogue Hub (ETD-Hub) with an advanced AutoML platform and interaction in natural language to connect ethical discourse and practical AI implementation. This initiative aims…

DanubeEnergy: Developing a transnational project on building green heat supply systems

09/2024 – 08/2025

DanubeEnergy is a one-year project funded by the Interreg Danube Region Programme. It brings together three partners from Slovakia and Ukraine to cooperate on the development of a complex strategic…

Hopero.AI: European Digital Innovation Hub

09/2022 – 08/2025

The Slovak AI European Digital Innovation Hub is a nation-wide ecosystem with a clear focus on artificial intelligence aiming to support the digital transformation of Slovak companies in the European…

AI4Europe: The unified platform for boosting European AI academic and industrial research

07/2022 – 12/2025

KInIT joins forces with 23 prominent European institutions to build a better artificial intelligence platform supporting daily needs of academic and industrial AI researchers. In this project, we primarily focus…

Network4Growth

10/2021 – 07/2022

KInIT is involved in the International Visegrad Fund project as a partner in the consortium of V4 countries, Armenia and Georgia. The project: “Network4Growth – Innovation and technology transfer network for…

Digitalization of Personalised Health Risk Management in At-Risk Groups to Improve Health Outcomes through Integration of Technological and Social Innovation

01/01/2025 – 30/06/2026

Obesity and related diseases are a growing health problem in Slovakia and worldwide. The Dig4Health project uses digital technologies and artificial intelligence – including large language models integrated into a…

V4Grid: The Visegrad group for Vehicle to X

06/2024 – 11/2026

In Central Europe, the V4Grid project is pioneering a new era in sustainable energy solutions by harnessing the power of electric vehicles (EVs) through Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) services powered by AI…

ČSOB: Enabling a virtual assistant to interact with clients in a human way

09/2023 – 11/2023

During this cooperation with the ČSOB bank, we focused on research and development of methods for transformation of Slovak words between different forms. It is necessary for a smooth conversation…

Martinus: Identifying similarities in books

08/2023 – 11/2023

Discovering an optimal book to read next is a typical problem of almost every book lover. However, often it is tricky to find similar books. Different AI and NLP techniques…

Bencont: Streamlining the debt collection process

06/2023 – ongoing

Debt collection is a crucial component of a sustainable financial system. The key challenge in this context lies in managing the substantial volume of debts that require attention. Artificial intelligence…

Evolveum: Use of AI methods in Identity and Access Management

04/2023 – ongoing

Identity and access management (IAM) deals with managing identities in cyberspace. IAM has difficulties scaling for large organizations given a huge number of users and their roles there. In this…

AI Dental: responsible innovation in healthcare

02/2023 – 06/2023

AI is quickly becoming an integral part of modern healthcare thanks to many innovative startups such as AID. Through our cooperation, we are trying to add a layer of trustworthiness…

PREDICT: Creating a predictive model for electricity transmission losses

12/2022 – 09/2023

In the era of rising electricity prices and the integration of renewable sources, an accurate forecast of losses on power lines is extremely important for the energy network operator. Incorrectly…

Aspecta: Improving Public Procurement using Natural Language Processing

12/2022 – 04/2023

We collaborate with Aspecta to revolutionize the public procurement process through natural language processing (NLP) and language technologies. The multilabel classification and semantic similarity algorithms, as well as the use…

Luigi’s Box: Personalized recommendations in e-commerce (industry PhD)

09/2022 – 12/2023

Our collaboration with Luigi’s Box in this project addresses the various research challenges of recommender systems in the e-commerce domain, focusing primarily on the web search. We explore novel methods…

VNET: Improving network cybersecurity with hybrid approaches

6/2022 – 03/2023

Network communication is under constant monitoring to detect any unexpected behavior (anomalies). This project focuses on anomaly detection, especially on the harmful anomalies caused by cybercriminals. VNET as a provider…

Simplicity: Towards trustworthy virtual municipal spaces 

03/2022 – 10/2023

Every online community that features user-generated content is ultimately prone to harmful content and malicious behavior. Virtual municipal communities are no exception. Using a combination of good moderation processes, crowd…

Upheal: Helping mental health professionals to be more efficient and focused using AI and NLP

03/2022 – 10/2023

The importance of mental health gradually increases. Health services rank among the areas where intelligent technology can have a direct impact on quality of human life. We collaborate with Upheal,…

Seesame: Ethics-based Assessment of a Sentiment Analysis Tool

01/2022 – 04/2022

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a rapidly growing field within AI. Applications such as sentiment analysis unlock features that are attractive for various industry partners. KInIT has been collaborating with…

sféra: NLP in industry and maintenance

10/2021 – 11/2022

The potential of application of AI including natural language processing (NLP) in industry is endless. Sféra has been creating innovative information systems for industrial clients in the energy, transport, and…

SFÉRA: Data analysis and modelling for microgrid support

10/2021 – ongoing

KInIT develops a microgrid model, which allows the simulation of power flow in microgrids with various elements, such as consumers, renewable energy sources  (RES), batteries and their various configurations. This…

VNET: Anomaly detection for improving network cybersecurity

10/2021 – 12/2021

People and companies use computers for extended communication, part of which can be highly sensitive and may also be stored in computers or on servers. This may be interesting for…

Softec: Optimizing winter road maintenance (industry PhD) 

09/2021 – ongoing

Our common PhD project with Softec addresses new approaches to predictive modeling and optimization algorithms with a focus on machine learning and artificial intelligence methods. The application domain is winter…

ESET: Machine learning for malware clustering (industry PhD) 

09/2021 – ongoing

With our industry partner, ESET, we created an industrial PhD student position at KInIT to help push the state-of-the-art in the malware domain even further, specifically in malware clustering. Besides…

Tatra banka: Data ethics in banking supported by AI

07/2021 – 07/2022

In collaboration with Tatra banka we address the ethical approach to data processing within the banking sector.  Algorithms used by fintech bring significant improvement to its customers, such as broader…

O2 Slovakia: Efficient analysis of customer’s chat communication

07/2021 – 10/2021

The use of artificial intelligence in order to improve services provided to hundreds of thousands of O2 Slovakia customers is one of successful examples of how we at KInIT fulfil…

ZSE: AI for Smart Energy Households

07/2021 – ongoing

ZSE and KInIT have started a research collaboration focused on disaggregation of customer consumption by identification of individual appliances’ profiles. Statistical and artificial intelligence methods will be used for processing…

Innovatrics: Trustworthy facial recognition systems

05/2021 – 10/2021

In collaboration with Innovatrics we address issues around transparency, awareness and the problem of human dignity in biometrics to effectively increase the trustworthiness and transparency of their facial recognition platform…

Seesame: Understanding social media conversations through AI

5/2021 – 12/2021

Social networks are a phenomenon of today with a significant impact on society. They can significantly shape public opinion. Discussions on social networks can be stimulating and bring new ideas,…

Symbiosy: AI and Predictions for Smart buildings

03/2021 – 07/2021

In collaboration with Symbiosy by HB Reavis we aim at reaching both goals – to optimize the building efficiency and to improve the wellbeing of the people who interact with…

Gerulata: Tackling the False Information Problem

09/2020 – 11/2020

In collaboration with our industry partner – Gerulata Technologies, we are conducting research and consulting in several areas into tackling the false information problem using data analysis and AI-based methods….

slovaks.ai: Cultivating the AI ​​community of Slovaks around the world

01/2025 – 06/2026

The slovaks.ai project focuses on building and strengthening relationships with the Slovak diaspora and supporting networking and mutual contributions among Slovaks living in Slovakia and around the world, who share…

NLP-FORGE: Developing Young NLP Talents in Slovakia

01/2024 – 11/2025

The NLP-FORGE project focuses on developing young talents in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Slovakia. It aims to improve educational and networking opportunities for talents and build…

SDA: Using large language models to support teachers in teaching young people about critical thinking

07/2023 – ongoing

Slovak Debate Association (SDA) is teaching young people about debating, democracy, human rights, and openness. To scale these efforts, we help SDA with developing a generative AI based approach to…

Oliver in a disinformation bubble

03/2022 – 10/2022

KInIT created an educational video and launched an animated website with the support of the O2 Fair Foundation. Oliver’s story sheds light on the role of recommendation algorithms in the…

Web disinformation annotation tool

8/2021-12/2021

In order to create effective AI tools for tackling disinformation, one has to first collect reliable training data. For the Slovak language, datasets are lacking. Therefore, KInIT developed and maintains…

Web disinformation annotation tool

8/2021-12/2021

In order to create effective AI tools for tackling disinformation, one has to first collect reliable training data. For the Slovak language, datasets are lacking. Therefore, KInIT developed and maintains…

SlovakBERT, the first public Slovak neural language model

2021 – ongoing

KInIT and Gerulata Technologies introduced SlovakBERT, a new language model for Slovak, which will help improve the automatic processing of texts written in Slovak. Such models were initially created mainly…

Monant: Universal and Extensible Platform for Monitoring Online Environment

2020 – ongoing

To monitor online content, especially to tackle false information, KInIT internally develops a data collection platform called Monant. The primary aim of the Monant platform is to be a universal…

Diacritics Restorer: Automatic diacritics restoration for Slovak Google Docs

2020 – ongoing

One of the minor Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks is the restoration of diacritics. This topic is not widely discussed as it is not an issue for major languages, such…

Digitalization of Personalised Health Risk Management in At-Risk Groups to Improve Health Outcomes through Integration of Technological and Social Innovation

01/01/2025 – 30/06/2026

Obesity and related diseases are a growing health problem in Slovakia and worldwide. The Dig4Health project uses digital technologies and artificial intelligence – including large language models integrated into a…