The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is proud to announce its participation in the ELLIOT project with PI Frank Hutter and his work on AutoML in the Age of Foundation Models. 

ELLIOT, the European Large Open Multi-Modal Foundation Models project, is a four-year research and innovation initiative funded with €25 million under the Horizon Europe programme. Bringing together 30 leading organisations from 12 European countries, the project aims to develop open, trustworthy, and general-purpose artificial intelligence models that can robustly operate in real-world, data-rich environments. These next-generation AI systems will be capable of processing and learning from a wide range of data types, going beyond classical modalities for foundation models (like vision and text).

Training the next generation of European AI researchers is also a key priority, with strong ties to the ELLIS PhD program fostering talent development within a distinctly European AI ecosystem. Coordinated by the Information Technologies Institute of CERTH, the ELLIOT consortium includes top-tier academic institutions, innovative SMEs, public bodies, and non-profits.

With ELLIOT, Europe will reinforce its technological sovereignty and shape the future of artificial intelligence in alignment with European values.

List of ELLIOT partners:

1. Information Technologies Institute - Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (Coordinator) (Greece)
2. Tübingen AI Center / University of Tübingen (Germany)
3. Research Center Juelich (FZJ) / Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) (Germany)
4. University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
5. Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
6. University of Trento (Italy)
7. Computer Vision Center (Spain)
8. Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
9. LOBA (Portugal)
10. Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain)
11. CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)
12. CINECA (Italy)
13. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)
14. University of Valencia (Spain)
15. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)
16. Aalto University (Finland)
17. ELLIS Alicante (Spain)
18. ELLIS Institute Tübingen (Germany)
19. Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)
20. CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (Germany)
21. KU Leuven (Belgium)
22. Voxist (France)
23. Valeo (France)
24. RoboTwin (Czech Republic)
25. Openchip (Spain)
26. Deimos Engineering and Systems (Spain)
27. Department of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition of the Catalan Government (Spain)
28. Flemish Radio and Television Network Organisation  (VRT) (Belgium)
29. EPFL (Switzerland)
30. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)