IVORY – ‘AI for Vision Zero in Road Safety’ – has been featured on the European Commission’s “30 years of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions” website, highlighted as a key project shaping the EU’s Mobility and Smart Cities theme, and curiosity that changes the world.
The feature showcases IVORY’s contribution to the EU’s ambition of zero road deaths by 2050, achieved through the development of fair, secure and transparent artificial intelligence for road safety.
As an industrial doctorate network, IVORY is training 15 researchers in new AI applications for vehicle assistance and road safety, with particular attention to ensuring these technologies serve vulnerable road users, including disadvantaged drivers and communities in low- and middle-income countries.
The feature highlights the project’s role in nurturing a new generation of leading researchers in the ethical use of AI for road safety.
About the MSCA
Over the last three decades, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) have supported researchers at all career stages, from early-stage doctoral candidates to experienced postdoctoral researchers and research managers. It is the European Union’s flagship programme for researcher training, mobility and career development.
What began as a small fellowship scheme has now supported over 150 000 researchers and involved 25 Nobel Prize laureates.
The programme is named after Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the trailblazing scientist. She is the only person in history to win a Nobel prize in two fields – chemistry and physics – and was a pioneer for women in science. The MSCA are celebrated every year on her birthday.
About IVORY
IVORY – ‘AI for Vision Zero in Road Safety’ is an industrial doctorates network, aiming to develop a new framework for the integration of AI in road safety and create a new generation of leading researchers in the field, in order to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals target 3.6 (halving the number of traffic fatalities by 2030) and EC ‘Vision Zero’ strategy (eliminating traffic fatalities by 2050). IVORY consists of four academic and eight non-academic beneficiaries, as well as eight associated partners, joining from engineering, data science and ethics of technology disciplines from 10 countries. It is training 15 researchers on new responsible AI applications for road user assistance and infrastructure safety management, and will create a sustainable learning and networking platform. IVORY brings the world’s best minds and institutional partners together as a collaboration of Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Universiteit Hasselt (Belgium), University of Zagreb Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences (FPZ) (Croatia), Agilysis (UK), iRAP, Royal HaskoningDHV (Netherlands), CardioID Technologies (Portugal), PSA-LAB (France), OSeven (Greece), ABEONA Consult (Belgium) and Cegeka (Belgium). Additional secondment partners include Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenscha Ppelijk Onderzoek (TNO), the European Institute of Road Assessment (EIRA), FRED Engineering, Traffic Injury Research Foundation of Canada (TIRF), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Transport for West Midlands, Infranea, Stellantis/Renault Group LAB, Royal HaskoningDHV, and Citymesh NV.