As part of AI4Germany, leading initiatives in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) are joining forces to actively support the local economy and society in Germany in the application of artificial intelligence – and thus accompany Germany into the AI age.
AI4Germany sees itself as a complementary initiative to the Learning Systems Platform and AI4EU. AI4Germany is an association of operational initiatives with a strong focus on implementation.
AI4EU is the EU’s central AI information infrastructure. AI4Germany sees itself as an implementation platform and intends to coordinate closely with AI4EU in the development and distribution of content.
AI4Germany is an umbrella initiative that promotes active exchange and cooperation between the participating partners in the federal states. Each partner has the support of the respective state government in its federal state to actively promote the topic of AI.
Together, the members are accelerating the introduction of artificial intelligence in Germany and thus strengthening Germany’s role as an important high-tech location.
To achieve this goal, members work together on a wide range of content and activities, all focused on the understanding, development and implementation of AI applications – for example:
- Networking and bundling Germany-wide AI infrastructures
- Development of joint, trend-setting analyses, objectives and strategies as well as corresponding publications
- Expansion of a productive network of experts
- Expansion of a map with AI application examples
- Provision of supra-regional best practices
- Collaboration on the AI start-up map for Germany
- Offer workshops, round tables and other AI event formats
- (Further) development of training concepts for scientific and in-company training and further education.
In order to reach as many people and companies as possible, we use the local presence and reach of the participating partners.
Together, the partners will be able to tackle the issue faster and more efficiently. This is particularly important as Germany (and Europe) are in a global race for technological leadership, which will also determine our future prosperity.
As an umbrella initiative, AI4Germany aims to promote active exchange and cooperation between the participating partners in the federal states. The partners in other German states that founded the initiative include appliedAI from Garching near Munich, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS and the Smart Systems Hub in Dresden as well as KI.NRW/Fraunhofer IAIS in Sankt Augustin near Bonn. The AI platform appliedAI is responsible for coordination as part of UnternehmerTUM.
“Pooling the strengths of all partners will help Germany to avoid falling further behind the superpowers USA and China when it comes to AI,” says Andreas Liebl, Managing Director of appliedAI, explaining the aim of the initiative.
