A consortium of 17 partners joins forces across sectors to drive human-centered, transparent, and responsible AI innovation
The EU-funded AIXPERT project, worth €7.5 million, embarks on a bold effort to reshape how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developed, deployed, and trusted across critical real-world domains: from healthcare and human resources to creative industries, manufacturing, and robotics. As AI technologies rapidly evolve, so do public concerns around bias, opacity, and accountability. Many AI systems raise serious questions about fairness, transparency, and ethical use, especially when used to make decisions that affect people’s lives.
AIXPERT seeks to address these challenges by delivering a comprehensive, human-centric AI framework grounded in FATE principles: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics. The project will create adaptive, explainable AI systems that are transparent, traceable, and inclusive by design.
We are at a critical inflection point where AI's tremendous potential can only be fully realized if we get the fundamentals right from the ground up. This isn't just about building more powerful systems—it's about building AI that people can actually trust and understand. When an AI system makes a recommendation about someone's medical treatment or hiring decision, that person deserves to know not just what the decision was, but why it was made and whether it was fair. AIXPERT with its framework embeds these FATE principles directly into the architecture itself, so transparency and accountability are not afterthoughts—they are the foundation. We are essentially creating AI that can explain itself in human terms while maintaining the rigor and performance that makes it valuable in the first place”.
Haris Papageorgiou, AIXPERT Coordinator
Key solutions include:
- Multimodal data integration for richer, more representative AI training
- Explainable decision-making for increased user trust and regulatory compliance
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration to reduce algorithmic bias
- Tools, data and services integrated in an innovative agentic framework that can scale across domains—from manufacturing and creative industries to robotics.
AIXPERT’s innovation is powered by a diverse, high-calibre consortium of 17 partners spanning academia, industry, and research:
- Athena Research Center (Greece) – Project Coordinator; expert in AI ethics and digital innovation
- University of Barcelona (Spain) – Leading AI explainability and social impact research
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain) – Scalable computing for large AI models
- Stichting Amsterdam UMC (Netherlands) – Expertise in biomedical data and clinical validation
- Kyklos LTD (United Kingdom) – Knowledge in digital ecosystems and systems integration
- Workable (Greece) – Developer of hiring platforms using responsible AI
- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands) – Pioneer in data science and AI fairness
- Philips (Netherlands) – Leader in consumer-focused, health-aware AI
- Sorbonne University (France) – Expertise in AI for healthcare and humanities
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) – Public research organisation
- Furhat Robotics (Sweden) – Advanced human–robot interaction systems
- Orfium (Bulgaria) – AI for creative industries and music platforms
- Novelcore (Greece) – UX design and user-centred evaluation tools
- Infinitivity Design Labs (France) – Human-centred design and participatory technology
- ITML (Cyprus) – Full-stack AI and data infrastructure solutions.
- Vector Institute (Canada) – Global leader in responsible and scalable AI
- Martel GmbH (Switzerland) – Swiss consultancy with over 20 years experience in EU project management.
Together, this consortium offers a unique mix of technical excellence, domain expertise, and ethical vision, positioning AIXPERT to lead Europe’s efforts in building AI systems that are not only powerful, but also responsible, inclusive, and worthy of public trust.
About AIXPERT
AIXPERT is an European Union-funded Research and Innovation Action (Grant Agreement No: 101214389) running for 36 months, involving a consortium of 16 European partners and 1 international partner. The project explores new approaches to designing and applying AI systems that are reliable, transparent, and aligned with societal values across key application areas. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Health and Digital Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This project has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
Project website available at: https://aixpert-project.eu/
