Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe

CAIRNE was launched in 2018, with a vision document signed by over 550 experts in AI.{{Cite web |title=600 Experts in Artificial Intelligence Sign a Letter Calling for European Action |url=https://claire-ai.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/claire-press-release-1.pdf |website=CLAIRE |language=en-US |access-date=2020-04-22}}{{Cite news |last=Armbruster |first=Alexander |date=2018-06-18 |title=F.A.Z. exklusiv: Ein Bündnis, das mit Google & Co. mithalten will|language=de|work=FAZ.NET|url=https://www.faz.net/1.5644858|issn=0174-4909 |access-date=2020-05-07}}{{Cite news|title=Europäisches KI-Bündnis: 600 Experten fordern größere Anstrengungen|url=https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Europaeisches-KI-Buendnis-600-Experten-fordern-groessere-Anstrengungen-4080585.html|last=Wittenhorst|first=Tilman|date=2018-06-18|website=heise online|language=de|access-date=2020-05-07}}{{Cite news|last=Nuffel|first=Pieter Van|date=2018-06-19|title=600 chercheurs en AI demandent à l'Europe de passer à l'action|language=fr |website=DataNews|url=https://datanews.levif.be/ict/actualite/600-chercheurs-en-ai-demandent-a-l-europe-de-passer-a-l-action/article-normal-855411.html|access-date=2020-05-07}}{{Cite news|last=Mántaras|first=Ramon López de|date=2018-06-19|title=Análisis {{!}} Europa no puede quedarse atrás en inteligencia artificial|language=es|work=El País|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/06/19/ciencia/1529401061_271730.html |issn=1134-6582 |access-date=2020-05-07}} The founders of CAIRNE are Holger Hoos, Philipp Slusallek and {{ill|Morten Irgens|no}}. CAIRNE aims to establish a network of Centres of Excellence in AI, across all of Europe, and a European AI Hub (or "Lighthouse Centre"), a new, central facility with state-of-the-art infrastructure similar to CERN.{{Cite news|title=Warning over brain drain of European AI talent to industry|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warning-over-brain-drain-european-ai-talent-industry|last=Baker|first=Simon|date=2018-12-11|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|language=en|access-date=2020-05-07}}{{Cite web|title=Scientists split as Europe paves way for 'Cern of AI'|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scientists-split-europe-paves-way-cern-of-ai|last=Matthews|first=David|date=2020-02-25|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|language=en|access-date=2020-05-07}}{{Cite news|last=Bernardi|first=Lorenzo|date=2018-06-21|title=Claire, il 'Cern' europeo dell'Intelligenza Artificiale che proverà a sfidare Usa e Cina|language=it-IT|website=Startmag|url=https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/claire-cern-europeo-usa-cina-intelligenza-artificiale/|access-date=2020-05-07}}

Headquartered in The Hague, CAIRNE has opened administrative offices in Saarbrücken, Prague, Rome, Brussels, Oslo, Paris and Zürich.

They were made aware that the acronym CLAIRE was trademarked and, after 5 years of using it undisputedly, faced a legal challenge. They decided to change the acronym to CAIRNE (pronounced "kern").  The official full legal name – Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe AISBL – remains unchanged, as does the core mission and support to members.

CAIRNE has the support of more than 4,000 people,{{Cite web|title=Supporters|url=https://claire-ai.org/individual-supporters/#all-supporters/|access-date=2022-07-29|website=CLAIRE|language=en-US}} representing the vast majority of Europe’s AI community, spanning academia and industry, research and innovation, including 2295 AI experts (PhD-level expertise in AI or equivalent){{Cite web|title=Expert supporters|url=https://claire-ai.org/expert-supporters/|access-date=2022-07-29|website=CLAIRE|language=en-US}} and 1126 supporters in industry.{{Cite web|title=Industry supporters|url=https://claire-ai.org/industry-supporters/|access-date=2022-07-29|website=CLAIRE|language=en-US}}

Furthermore, nine advisory groups with 48 members from 18 countries have been established, covering all areas of AI, along with the topics of ethical, legal and social implications of AI.{{Cite web |date=2018-12-03 |title=Informal Advisory Groups |url=https://claire-ai.org/iags/ |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=CLAIRE |language=en-US}}

The CAIRNE vision for excellence in European AI has received official letters of support from the governments of nine European countries,{{Cite web |title=Governments |url=https://claire-ai.org/government/ |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=CLAIRE |language=en-US}} from over 30 scientific associations across all of Europe.{{Cite web |title=Organisations |url=https://claire-ai.org/organisations/ |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=CLAIRE |language=en-US}} CAIRNE is also actively liaising, on an ongoing basis, with other important organisations, including [https://ellis.eu/ ELLIS], the [https://www.humane-ai.eu/ HumanE AI], the [https://www.bdva.eu/ Big Data Value Association], [http://eu-robotics.net/ euRobotics], [https://www.ai4europe.eu/ AI4EU], the [https://aihub.org/ Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence], several European Union funded projects, and cooperates closely with ESA.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-16 |title=Projects & Collaborations |url=https://claire-ai.org/projects/ |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=CLAIRE |language=en-US}}

The CAIRNE Network consists of the Research, the Innovation and the Rising Researchers Networks and collectively creates the world‘s largest AI network of labs and institutions, companies and start-ups, and graduate students involved in AI research, that are committed to working together towards developing European sovereignty in trustworthy AI and fostering close links between non-profit research and impactful industrial applications.

Started in 2019, [https://claire-ai.org/research-network/ CAIRNE's Research Network] now consists of over 440 research groups and research institutions, covering jointly more than 25 000 employees in 37 countries.{{Cite web |title=Research Network |url=https://claire-ai.org/research-network/ |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=CLAIRE |date=17 December 2018 |language=en-US}}

The Innovation Network, launched in 2021, comprises companies, legal entities, and groups or units within these companies that develop or use Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods or technologies (for-profit), and consists of 12 members from 6 countries across Europe.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-25 |title=Innovation Network |url=https://claire-ai.org/innovation-network/ |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=CLAIRE |language=en-US}}

The Rising Researchers Network, launched in early 2022, The CAIRNE | Rising Researchers Network aims to gather graduate students, especially Ph.D. students, postdocs, and master students, involved in AI research, who believe in European excellence in AI and that ethical and human-centered AI should be the norm of AI research and development in the future.{{Cite web |date=2022-03-15 |title=Rising Researchers Network |url=https://claire-ai.org/r2network/ |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=CLAIRE |language=en-US}}

CAIRNE regularly provides feedback to the European Commission on matters pertaining to Artificial Intelligence including the CAIRNE's "[https://claire-ai.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ec-wp-response.pdf Response to the European Commission White Paper on Artificial Intelligence – A European approach to excellence and trust]" and the "[https://claire-ai.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CLAIRE-EC-AI-Regulation-Feedback.pdf Response to the European Commission’s Proposal for AI Regulation and 2021 Coordinated Plan on AI]".

On 30 September 2021, Prof. Holger Hoos, chair of the Board of Directors of CAIRNE, accepted on behalf of CAIRNE the Innovation Award for ground-breaking achievements in the research and development of AI, together with the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). The German AI Award ("Deutscher KI-Preis"), awarded by Die Welt, one of Germany's most widely read daily newspapers, is the one the largest awards of its kind in Europe.{{Cite web|title=CLAIRE awarded the "German AI Prize"|url=https://www-live.dfki.de/en/web/news/claire-awarded-the-german-ai-prize/|access-date=2021-10-11|website=www-live.dfki.de|date=30 September 2021 |language=de-DE}}

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