{"id":22226,"date":"2022-08-02T16:38:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/project\/disai-improving-scientific-excellence-of-kinit\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:02:26","slug":"disai-improving-scientific-excellence-of-kinit","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/kinit.sk\/sk\/projekt\/disai-improving-scientific-excellence-of-kinit\/","title":{"rendered":"DisAI: Improving scientific excellence of KInIT in AI and language technologies to fight disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We succeeded in Horizon Europe\u2019s Twinning scheme and joined forces with leading research institutions in natural language processing and disinformation combating. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (DFKI), University of Copenhagen<\/a> (UCPH) and Centre for Research and Technology Hellas<\/a> (CERTH) will be KInIT\u2019s partners and mentors in the project focused exclusively on increasing KInIT\u2019s scientific excellence, expertise and competences.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The R&I ecosystem of Slovakia suffers from a lack of scientific excellence and industry-academia collaboration. Gross Domestic Expenditure on R&I from the private sector in 2020 was 0.5 % of the Slovak GDP<\/a>, being one of the lowest in the EU. Challenged by the lack of internationalisation, \u201cacademic inbreeding\u201d and brain drain (second highest in EU<\/a>), Slovakia continually ranks on the tail<\/a> of participation and success rates in EU funding programmes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Twinning scheme<\/a> aims to enhance networking activities between the research institutions of the Widening countries and top-class leading counterparts in the EU. We set our main goal to help safe-guard digital society in Slovakia and beyond by improving scientific excellence and creativity of KInIT in combating harmful content with artificial intelligence (AI) and language technologies (LT).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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In the DisAI project, we connect with the German DFKI, Danish University of Copenhagen and Greek CERTH.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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DFKI is the largest independent AI research institute worldwide and top-level research institute in various areas of human-centric AI, including language technologies and multilingualism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The University of Copenhagen is an internationally leading university, with rankings of No. 33 worldwide and No. 7 in Europe according to the ARWU (Shanghai) ranking, having one of Europe’s strongest natural language processing sections and expertise in trustworthy AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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CERTH is a Greek awarded research centre with extensive expertise in disinformation combating and multimodal processing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The main objectives of the project are improving scientific excellence of KInIT in the selected areas of AI and LT, and strengthening research management and administrative skills and support for excellent research at KInIT. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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We focus on disinformation combating, which we consider one of the most important societal challenges to tackle. We already have a rising research track\/record and involvement in international initiatives in the area of information disorders. Strengthening KInIT\u2019s competencies will be achieved by building its capacity in three focus areas: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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