The aim of the CERTAIN consortium is to work across the value chain from basic research to society, focusing on the development, optimization and implementation of Trusted AI techniques to provide guarantees and certifications for AI systems in specific use-cases. The goals of CERTAIN are 4-fold:
First, CERTAIN drives to conduct excellent research on diverse aspects of trustworthiness of AI. Second, the consortium collaborates with industry, standardization bodies and political and societal stakeholders to set certification requirements, define AI trust labels, foster AI literacy and apply trustworthiness aspects to real-word problems and applications. Third, CERTAIN aims to defragment the European research and application landscape for trustworthy AI, bringing together stakeholders of all kinds that are interested in trustworthy AI technology. Forth and last, CERTAIN also aims to provide communication channels both between its stakeholders and with the public, e.g. by promoting conferences, workshops, and collaboration opportunities that exist around the research on and the use of trustworthy AI technologies. After establishing itself as a local and regional focal point in Phase 1 and expanding to become a widely visible European lighthouse center in Phase 2, CERTAIN plans for further growth in the future through the addition of new partners and thematic pillars, as well as the federation of multiple lighthouse centers.
