Opening of the Franco-Bavarian AI-CUP challenge "AI for a better world" on March 9

Opening of the Franco-Bavarian AI-CUP challenge “AI for a better world” on March 9

28 février 2022

At the beginning of 2021, President Emmanuel Macron and Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder pledged to intensify cooperation between Bavaria and France in the field of technology and innovation. In this context, on October 23, the launch of an Artificial Intelligence competition named “AI Cup” was announced. Mathilde Mougeot, holder of the Industrial Chair “Industrial Data Analytics and Machine Learning” of ENS Paris-Saclay and her team who organize jointly with the University of Passau, this new challenge whose theme is “AI for a better world” unveiled the modalities.

AI-Cup

AI-Cup is a Franco-Bavarian initiative to support the future generation of AI entrepreneurs and to create innovative AI start-ups in Europe. It is aimed at students or PhD students from the academic field in Bavaria and France, who can demonstrate not only their scientific skills in the field of Artificial Intelligence but also their entrepreneurial skills. The eight selected teams can receive up to €95,000 in support to develop their innovative ideas and receive one year of coaching to create their start-up. Organized by the University of Passau (Germany) and the École Normale Supérieure Paris Saclay (France) in collaboration with ATOS (European leader in cybersecurity, cloud and high-performance computing), the AI-Cup mobilizes a number of French and German innovation partners, committed to contributing to European cooperation on AI.

The organizing teams have developed, in cooperation with data providers, a set of tasks that participants will have to complete in order to demonstrate both their data science talents and their entrepreneurial ability to carry out a start-up project.

The 5 data providers selected are:

Deutsche Bahn Regio,
E.ON,
Trading Hub Europe Germany,
The French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA),
The Borelli Center.

Participants in the challenge will have to use this data to develop an “AI for a better world”. Professor Dr. Harald Kosch, Vice President for Academic and IT Infrastructure at the University of Passau, explains:

“We are looking for sustainable ideas on how to use AI to solve current problems in the areas of healthcare, smart mobility and decarbonization. “

Challenge opens on March 9, 2022

On the French side, the challenge is open to students from Paris-Saclay who will be able to compete alone or in teams. All the information concerning the content of the tasks to be accomplished in this challenge will be made public on March 9, 2022 during a digital presentation session whose program is :

14:30 – 14:40 : Introduction by Prof. Harald Kosch, Vice-President, Universität Passau
14:40 – 15:00: Welcome by :
– Prof. Ulrich Bartosch, President, Universität Passau
– Corinne Pereira, Consul General of France in Munich
– Roland Weigert, Staatssekretär im Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Landesentwicklung und Energie (tbc)

15:00 – 15:10: Atos- the leader in secure & decarbonized digital – Philip Bohn, ATOS Germany
15:10 – 15:55: Information on the AI-Cup challenge and presentation of the AI-Cup platform:
– Prof. Michael Granitzer, Chair of Data Science, Universität Passau

Explanation of the AI-Cup Tasks from German Data Providers: E.ON, DB Regio, Trading Hug Europe :
– Prof. Michael Granitzer, Chair of Data Science, Universität Passau

Explanation of the AI-Cup Tasks from French Data Providers: Centre Borelli, CEA :
– Prof. Mathilde Mougeot, Chair of Industrial Data Analytics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris Saclay and ENSIIE