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AI for Food Science workshop sparks international collaboration
How can universities, research institutes, and food companies work together to harness the power of emerging AI for food science? University of Helsinki organized a dedicated workshop, bringing leading European researchers and industry experts to the same table.
RealYou AI will develop the next generation of personalized AI decision assistants
Researchers to build cognitive machine learning that will improve decision-making with instantly personalized intelligent assistance.
Europe’s best AI literacy initiative for education comes from Finland
Generation AI, a Finnish initiative for AI literacy in education and research, has won the European Union’s 2026 Digital Skills Award for promoting AI literacy among children and young people. The award ceremony was held in Brussels on 30 June 2026.
Highly sought-after EU funding for three Aalto University researchers
The projects led by Adam Foster, Jani Oksanen and Jukka Suomela focus on atomically precise materials-engineering, LED-based thermal management and quantum methods in distributed networks.News from HIIT
HIIT Fellow wins Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship
HIIT Postdoctoral Fellow Nicola Cotumaccio won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
GRADSTOP: Early Stopping of Gradient Descent via Posterior Sampling presented at ECAI 2025
HIIT Postdoc Katsiaryna Haitsiukewich presented a full paper at ECAI-2025
HIIT Open 2025 programming contest
Two weeks ago, 16 teams and 41 contestants gathered in Otaniemi to compete on algorithmic problem solving.