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A three-year project that will develop a framework to address and tackle the multiple manifestations of bias and unfairness in AI by proposing a controlled experimentation environment for AI developers

project's
background

AI-based decision support systems are increasingly deployed in industry, in the public and private sectors, and in policymaking. As our society is facing a dramatic increase in inequalities and intersectional discrimination, we need to prevent AI systems to amplify this phenomenon but rather mitigate it. To trust these systems, domain experts and stakeholders need to trust the decisions.

AEQUITAS aims to address and tackle the multiple manifestations of bias and unfairness in AI by proposing a controlled experimentation environment for:

assessing the bias in existing AI systems

providing practical methods to repair, remove, and mitigate bias

providing fairness-by-design methodologies and techniques to design new bias-free systems

Technological

Ease the assessment, design, and development of fair AI systems
Support the AI prosumers on the development/use of fair AI Assets on the AI-on-demand platform that becomes a one stop shop for fair-by-design AI systems
Enrich the state of the art with novel algorithms and techniques for bias detection and mitigation
Generate synthetic biased datasets
Effectiveness and usability assessment of real-world use cases

Societal and legal

Involve in the development of ethical, fair AI systems relevant groups of stakeholders
To raise awareness of AI bias on companies, public bodies, scientific communities and the general public, and provide a knowledge-toolkit toward the development of socially responsible AI
Involve underrepresented groups’ and individuals' perspectives and points of view in the design, development and training of AI systems

how?

With a highly heterogeneous consortium to cover all the needs to ensure that the outcomes guarantee inclusion and accessibility by the entire European AI Ecosystem and to reach a high impact

With enterprises, public bodies, associations, representative bodies and citizens provide input to AEQUITAS on the individual dimension with existing tools and datasets

The combination of case studies from companies, public bodies and hospitals, and of the association partners of the Consortium will provide indicators that will be used to develop the AEQUITAS technology

National and international engagement with related projects, initiatives and networks

context setters

European policy makers, platforms, committees, and agencies
European policy makers and EC directorates
Regional / National authorities

consortium

UNIBO

Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna

UMU

Umea Universitet

UCC

University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork

ADC

Adecco Formazione SRL

AKKODIS

Akka Italia SRL

AOUBO

IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero - Universitaria di Bologna

PRE

Philips Electronics Nederland BV

LOBA

LOBA - Customer Experience Design

ALLAI

Stitching ALLAI Nederland

PRD

Period Think Tank APS

Eurocadres- - Conseil des Cadres Europeens SASPJ

ITI

Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica

UPV

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

ULL

Universidad de la Laguna

Asociacion para el Desarrollo Economico y Social Rayuela

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welcome
to aequitas

project's
background

AEQUITAS goals

Technological

Public and private sector

Societal and legal

how?

With a highly heterogeneous consortium to cover all the needs to ensure that the outcomes guarantee inclusion and accessibility by the entire European AI Ecosystem and to reach a high impact

With enterprises, public bodies, associations, representative bodies and citizens provide input to AEQUITAS on the individual dimension with existing tools and datasets

The combination of case studies from companies, public bodies and hospitals, and of the association partners of the Consortium will provide indicators that will be used to develop the AEQUITAS technology

National and international engagement with related projects, initiatives and networks

for
whom?

context setters

key players

advocates

consortium

welcometo aequitas

project'sbackground

AEQUITAS goals

Technological

Public and private sector

Societal and legal

how?

With a highly heterogeneous consortium to cover all the needs to ensure that the outcomes guarantee inclusion and accessibility by the entire European AI Ecosystem and to reach a high impact

With enterprises, public bodies, associations, representative bodies and citizens provide input to AEQUITAS on the individual dimension with existing tools and datasets

The combination of case studies from companies, public bodies and hospitals, and of the association partners of the Consortium will provide indicators that will be used to develop the AEQUITAS technology

National and international engagement with related projects, initiatives and networks

forwhom?

context setters

key players

advocates

consortium

welcome
to aequitas

project's
background

for
whom?