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Learn more about the selected companies in ELISE's 2nd Open Call: Augmented Hearing leverages the power of AI to enable effortless conversations in naturally noisy environments.

Foundation Models, and their origin, analysis and development have been typically associated with the US and Big Tech. Yet, a critical share of important insights and novel approaches do come from Europe, both within academia and industry. Part of this winter school's goal is to highlight these fresh perspectives and give the students an in-depth look into how Europe is guiding its own research agenda with unique directions and bringing together the community. The workshop will take place at the University of Amsterdam.

“Our societies needed to be prepared for synthesized images becoming ever more difficult to distinguish from real ones"

A pioneer in the field of Generative AI, Computer Scientist Björn Ommer recently joined the ELLIS network as a Fellow. Together with his team he developed ‘Stable Diffusion’, a ground-breaking open source text-to-image generator which has fundamentally expanded the possibilities of creative image generation.

ELISE offers a possibility for researchers not affiliated with the ELISE project to apply for the ELISE Fellows Mobility funding.