On the second day of the summit (October 16), Constructor University Bremen held the SCIANCE consultation workshop “Shaping the RAISE SRIA: Interdisciplinary Cooperation Priorities for AI-Enabled Science”. Mariia Snigireva, Executive Director of Constructor Knowledge Labs, and Mariana Macedo, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Constructor University, led the workshop.
European systems for research funding, career development, research assessment, infrastructure and regulation remain largely organised around individual disciplines. AI has significant potential to support interdisciplinary research.
The workshop brought together researchers from different disciplines and career stages, AI and data specialists, research software engineers, and representatives of research infrastructures. Participants worked in small groups, with support from facilitators, to examine barriers to interdisciplinary cooperation.
All groups identified AI training for researchers as the main priority. This training would help researchers identify appropriate uses of AI, apply relevant methods, and critically assess the results.
SCIANCE will use these results in its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for RAISE. This will help future European support for AI in science to meet the real needs of interdisciplinary teams.
