Sponsors
The Faculty of Computer and Information Science of the University of Ljubljana is Slovenia’s leading educational and research institution for computer and information science. It was founded in 1996, when the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science split into two separate faculties. The study of computer has been an independent study programme since 1982. The Faculty has about 250 personnel and enrols more than 1600 students. Artificial intelligence is by far its strongest research field with 5 active laboratories employing about 100 researchers. The Faculty is a full member of the the University of Ljubljana. The University was founded in 1919 and is the oldest and largest higher education and scientific research institution in Slovenia.
SMASH is a Marie Sklodowska Curie COFUND project for postdoctoral researchers centred on developing cutting-edge machine learning/AI applications for science and humanities. It is co-funded by Slovenian Government and coordinated by the University of Nova Gorica.
SMASH offers postdoctoral fellowships to 50 talented individuals in the period 2023 - 2028, to work on projects that link scientific applications of cutting-edge machine learning/AI to some of the world’s most challenging research problems. These include predictions related to the impacts of climate change, the development of next-generation precision medicine development, answering essential questions about our Universe, and digging deep into the fundamentals of language and how we communicate. It involves top 5 Slovenian academic institutions and 41 international and non academic partners.
The Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI), is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering a broad spectrum of basic and applied research. It was founded in 1949 and it boasts a rich tradition of fundamental and applied research in the fields of natural sciences and technology. The Institute successfully collaborates with universities, schools, the public and the economy, as well as with top research institutions around the world. The staff of more than 1200 specializes in natural sciences, life sciences and engineering. Artificial intelligence is represented by three departments with more than 150 researchers between them. These departments have played a major role in organizing many scientific and educational events in AI. JSI is also home to VideoLectures.NET.
Ljubljana Tourism is a destination management organisation established by the City of Ljubljana. Ljubljana Tourism fosters the development and undertakes the promotion of tourism in Ljubljana and the Ljubljana region in conjunction with tourism providers.
The most important task of the public company Ljubljanski potniški promet d.o.o. is to provide safe, reliable and smooth-running public transport in the area of the entire City Municipality of Ljubljana and sixteen suburban municipalities. Their wish and goal is to make sure that buses become the best alternative to private cars since in this way we can remove private vehicles from urban areas to ensure a healthy environment for future generations.
FAIR takes its steps from current artificial intelligence, from its various theoretical, modeling and engineering aspects, but is aimed towards the future, with the ambition of contributing to addressing research questions, methodologies, models, technologies, without ignoring ethical and legal rules, and sustainability issues in a broad sense, not just environmental.
The FAIR approach follows a holistic, multidisciplinary approach, aimed at a profound rethinking of the foundations of AI, that goes hand in hand with investigating the social impact of the new forms of AI. FAIR researchers aim at making artificial intelligence systems capable of interacting and collaborating with humans, aware of their own limitations and able to adapt to new situations, and interact appropriately in complex social settings, of being aware of their perimeters of security and trust, and of being attentive to the environmental and social impact that their implementation and execution may entail.