Specific topics ICIS

Specific Topics ICIS

End Q1 of 2023 Announcement of NGF Call for Proposals: AiNed ELSA Labs (read)
The purpose of the ‘NGF AiNed - ELSA Labs’ call for proposals is to acquire knowledge and insights that contribute to developing and applying trustworthy, human-centred Artificial Intelligence. This call for proposals is the second in a series of three on human-centred AI.

20.06.2023 NWO & Open Science NL: Second call for Local Digital Competence Centers (read)
The aim of this call is to strengthen the local support capacity in the field of data stewardship and research software expertise.
xx.06.2023 NWO KIC (Pre-announcement) Cybersecurity for digital resilience (read) .
The aim of this call is to acquire essential and innovative knowledge from fundamental and applied cybersecurity research that contributes to securely shaping the digital transformation of the Netherlands. The development of new (technological) tools, methods, action perspectives and intervention possibilities is crucial.

19.09.2023 Full proposal: Publication call for research on vulnerability and resilience in an online society (read)
The goal of the synergy program is to answer a large part of the knowledge questions around online society from the National Knowledge Agenda.

05.10.2023 NWO Collaboration between Humans and (semi-)Autonomous systems (read)
Aim of this call is to stimulate interdisciplinary research that contributes to the further development of cooperation between humans and (semi-)autonomous systems. There is a need for further development of AI and (semi-)autonomous systems with additional focus on robustness and optimisation of such systems and their deployment.

15.12.2023 NWO NGF AiNed Fellowship Grants (read)
This programme is geared towards Dutch academic research organisations that, in line with their strategy, want to invest (see Section 3.5.1) in attracting AI talent to the position of (tenure track) assistant professor, associate professor or full professor. The AI talent will be selected by the research organisation. This programme enables research organisations to offer this AI talent a more attractive starting package.

19.03.2024 HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-22: Fundamentals of Software Engineering (read).
Expected outcome: Responsible software engineering methods, tools, and best practices leveraging, among others, novel AI and data technologies to accelerate the development and maintenance of software, including for multi-architecture systems, addressing in particular efficient and agile modelling, verification and validation, as well as vulnerability assessment and mitigation. Start TRL 2 and achieve TRL 5.
19.03.2024 HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-06: Explainable and Robust AI (read).
Proposals should set out a credible pathway to contributing to one or several of the following impacts: (1) Increased inclusiveness, by supporting a human-centred approach to technology development that is aligned with European social and ethical values (including gender and intersectional aspects), as well as sustainability; (2) Sustainable, high-quality jobs by targeting skills mismatches, the need to empower workers, including those at risk of social exclusion, and ethical considerations relating to technological progress.

Updated: 8 June 2023