International Cooperation

CHIST-ERA: pathfinder programme for European coordinated research on future and emerging Information and Communication Technologies

CHIST-ERA is a consortium of funding organisations with programmes supporting Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies (ICST). The CHIST-ERA consortium is itself supported by the European Union’s Future & Emerging Technologies scheme (FET). Under FP7, the funding organisations jointly support research projects selected in the framework of CHIST-ERA, in order to reinforce European capabilities in selected topics. FCT is an associate member in the 2019 call launched by the consortium.

Results and funding granted

CHIST-ERA 2019 Call

FCT funded Portuguese applications in the two topics of the Call:

Explainable Machine Learning-based Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Novel Computational Approaches for Environmental Sustainability (CES)

The following countries participated in the CHIST-ERA JTC 2019: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Québec (Canada), Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

For more information about this call, please check CHIST-ERA website.

Funded projects with Portuguese researchers:

– Topic: Explainable Machine Learning-based Artificial Intelligence (XAI):

Title of the project: ANTIDOTE – ArgumeNtaTIon-Driven explainable artificial intelligence fOr digiTal mEdicine
Participating countries: France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Portugal
Coordination: Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata, France
Portuguese researcher: Marcin Lewinski, Nova University Lisbon (UNL)
Financing granted by FCT: €87.021,00 (eighty-seven thousand and twenty-one euros)
Project budget: €957.478,00
Title of the project: CIMPLE – Countering Creative Information Manipulation with Explainable AI
Participating countries: France, Austria, Czech Republic, Portugal, United Kingdom
Coordination: Raphaël Troncy, France
Portuguese researcher: Sofia Pinto, INESC-ID (UNL)
Financing granted by FCT: €90.000,00 (ninety thousand euros)
Project budget: €1.080.590,00
Title of the project: XAIface – Measuring and Improving Explainability for AI-based Face Recognition
Participating countries: France, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal
Coordination: Jean-Luc Dugelay, France
Portuguese researcher: Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)
Financing granted by FCT: €89.753,00 (eighty-nine thousand, seven hundred and fifty-three euros)
Project budget: €761.410,00
Title of the project: XPM – Explainable Predictive Maintenance
Participating countries: Sweden, France, Poland, Portugal
Coordination: Slawomir Nowaczyk, Sweden
Portuguese researcher: João Gama, INESC TEC
Financing granted by FCT: €89.885,00 (eighty-nine thousand, eight hundred and eighty-five euros)
Project budget: €604.236,00€

– Topic: Novel Computational Approaches for Environmental Sustainability (CES):

Title of the project: SEEDS – Stakeholder-Based Environmentally-Sustainable and Economically Doable Scenarios for the Energy Transition
Participating countries: Switzerland, Estonia, Spain, Portugal
Coordination: Stefan Pfenninger, Switzerland
Portuguese researcher: Inês Campos, FCiências.ID – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências
Financing granted by FCT: €89.325,00 (eighty-nine thousand, three hundred and twenty-five euros)
Project budget: €500.429,00
Title of the project: 4Map4Health – Mapping of forest health, species and forest risks using Novel ICT Data and Approaches
Participating countries: Finland, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal
Coordination: Juha Hyyppä, Finland
Portuguese researcher: José Alberto Álvares Pereira Gonçalves, University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences (FCUP/UP)
Financing granted by FCT: €89.281,00 (eighty-nine thousand, two hundred and eighty-one euros)
Project budget: 958.509,00€