The 3IA national network

At the national level, the network of 3IA Institutes plays a central role in the French national AI policy “AI for Humanity’’, launched in the Fall 2018 by President Macron. After a first year during which the Institutes built their own local models, the network of 3IA Institutes was really activated in 2020 with the first joint actions.

The network of 3IA Institutes organized several events early in 2020, such as a “Diversity” day and a round table “Towards an egalitarian AI?”, which took place on March 8, 2020, a working group on AI teaching in the Spring 2020 and the first edition of the “AI4Health’’ winter school which took place in January 2021. The latter action is the result of a strong coordination between the 3IA Institutes MIAI, Prairie and 3IA Côte d’Azur on the topic of Health, in collaboration with the French “Health Data Hub’’ initiative. The second edition of the “AI4Health’’ winter school was held (online) on January 12-14, 2022.

Now, with the support of INRIA, which coordinates the national research program, the network of 3IA Institutes has reached cruising speed with regular meetings of the management teams, common working groups (education, medical imaging, etc.), an effective website to work and communicate and regular joint events, such as the colloquium for PhD students of the four 3IA Institutes (first meeting held in November 2021, hosted by ANITI in Toulouse).

The network of 3IA Institutes is also currently working, at the request of Mme Fredérique Vidal, French Minister of Higher Education and Research, on designing the roadmap for the Education program (€800M over 5 years) of the second phase of the French national plan for AI. The objective here is to standardize the model built by the 3IA Institutes at the national level.

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