This call aims to develop a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) to identify long-term research challenges where artificial intelligence (AI) can drive scientific breakthroughs and strengthen the EU’s competitive edge across various disciplines. The project will assess the needs for future research and innovation initiatives to optimize AI-enabled science in Europe, including better access to data, infrastructure, skills, and talent, while promoting transparency, reproducibility, and open science. Additionally, it seeks to coordinate and engage a broad community of researchers, citizen scientists, industry, and policymakers to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, raise awareness, and develop roadmaps for enhanced integration of AI in scientific research processes across the EU.

Expected Outcome:

Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Identify the long-term research challenges where AI can make a meaningful breakthrough contributing to EU’s competitive edge in selected scientific disciplines/areas, through a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.
• Provide evidence to structure the resources for AI in Science at European level, as a feasibility test towards potential R&I initiatives beyond the CSA that could optimise access to relevant data, infrastructure and talent across different scientific domains for more and better AI-enabled research.
• Coordinate, strengthen the network and raise awareness and a community of scientists, including citizen scientists, research organisations and stakeholders towards new paradigms of research with AI.