Welcome to the first Partner Program newsletter. As you see, the partner program team is growing. I am now full-time at dScience after the end of the SIRIUS Centre and Nilla Karlsen-Davies has started as External Engagements Advisor.

We are now working to build up the support systems we need to ensure that the program works well and meets your needs.  

 – David Cameron, External Engagement Manager, dScience Partner Program

Highlights of the last month have included the successful submission of TwinEnergy, a proposal for an FME: a research centre for environment-friendly energy. If this is successful, we will have created a centre that can provide research capabilities in our Risk and Asset Management themes.

We also participated in the concluding seminars for the BigInsight and SIRIUS SFIs (SFI = Centre for Research-based Innovation) and the kick-off for the Integreat SFF (Centre of Excellence).

Definition of an AIS in health has come to an advanced stage and will start in the new year. Laura Slaughter is preparing a position paper on data science in health that will provide a high-quality assessment of the needs in this area.

This week we received the signed agreement from Oslo City Council as a new partner from January.

We are particularly pleased that we are collaborating with NORA to create a Thematic Working Group on AI Safety and the EU AI act. This was kicked off in November with an invitation-only seminar held at NUPI. This provided an opportunity for our partners to interact with NUPI’s network of governmental and regulatory actors. This will be followed up in the new year with the possibility of a fact-finding trip for our partners to the United Kingdom.   

As we enter December, we are concluding winding up the activities for this year. Key personnel are taking holidays and we are planning activities for 2024. We wish you and your colleagues a Merry Christmas and look forward to our collaboration in 2024.

The energy systems of the future are built on green energy and digital solutions. They require new collaboration across sectors and disciplines. We invite you to join the leading voices shaping these discussions – in Oslo, Norway, Europe and beyond.

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It is our pleasure to welcome our new External Engagement Adviser, Nilla Karlsen-Davies, to The dScience Partner Program Team. Read more here.

Integreat is a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway. The centre is hosted by the University of Oslo, with partners The Arctic University of Norway and Norwegian Computing Center. Integreat's research will make machine learning more sustainable, accurate, trustworthy and ethical. Read more about the kick-off here.

OSLO, November 6th - Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) hosted a closed session in collaboration with dScience and the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA), bringing together participants from academia, government, politics, and business to discuss AI, regulation, and geopolitics. The discussions were according to the Chatham House rule. Read more here. 

• Centres Of Excellence For Exascale HPC Applications (Deadline 09/01/24) [Read here]
• AI Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for the energy sector – bringing technology to the market (Deadline 16/01/24) [Read here]
• Improved prediction, detection, and treatment approaches for comprehensive stroke management (Deadline 16/01/24) [Read here]
• Maximising the potential of synthetic data generation in healthcare applications (Deadline 16/01/24) [Read here]
• Data Space for tourism (Deadline 23/01/24) [Read here]
• Data Space for Cultural heritage (Deadline 23/01/24) [Read here]
• Digital transformation and ensuring a better use of industrial data, which can optimise steel supply chains (Clean Steel Partnership) (IA) (Deadline 07/02/24) [Read here]
• Technologies/solutions to support circularity for manufacturing (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA) (Deadline 07/02/24) [Read here]
• Development of safe and sustainable by design alternatives (IA) (Deadline 07/02/24) [Read here]
• Beyond the horizon: A human-friendly deployment of artificial intelligence and related technologies (Deadline 7/02/24) [Read here]

• Hiroshima Process: International Code of Conduct for Advanced AI Systems (Read here)
• Commission welcomes G7 leaders' agreement on Guiding Principles and a Code of Conduct on Artificial Intelligence (Read here)
• AI Safety Summit (Follow it here)
• US Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (Read here)
• EU and Japan conclude landmark deal on cross-border data flows at High-Level Economic Dialogue (Read here)
• Opinion by the European Data Protection Supervisor for a Proposal for Artificial Intelligence Act in the light of legislative developments (Read here)
• [Document] JURI's Draft Report on Virtual Worlds (Read here)

• Digital Innovations Meet Green Goals: Insights from the Energy Data Workshop (Read here)
• New York City’s blueprint for AI regulation (Read here)
• EU Commission’s “multi-cloud strategy” raises consistency questions (Read here)
• EU policymakers’ advance on open source software, support period in new cybersecurity law (Read here)
• AI Act’s last mile, MEPs throw the gauntlet on EUCS (Read here)
• The European Innovation Council Tech report 2023 is out (Read here)
• AI Act: Leading MEPs revise high-risk classification, ignoring negative legal opinion (Read here)