Implementing Ethics by Design in AI: A Training Framework for the Healthcare Sector

Funding programme:
Erasmus Plus KA2 - Cooperation among organizations and institutions - KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education – Call 2024

Coordinator:
UNIMC (IT)

Partners:
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO (F), Tallinn University of Technology (EE), UNIVERSITEIT GENT (B), UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO (PT), UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM (NL), The Way S.r.l. Società Benefit (IT)

Runtime:
from 01.12.2024 to 30.11.2027

Short description:
Around 60% of today’s jobs are affected by digital technology and artificial intelligence, necessitating updated skills. EthicAI4CARE aims to address the EU’s top priority through a brand-new training for boosting transversal digital skills integrating ethics by design and EU ethical values in teaching curricula.

In doing so, EthicAI4CARE operationalizes the EC’s Digital Strategy for Europe 2030 based on trustworthy AI that asks to rethink higher education to train professionals that use and «shape technology in a way that respects EU values».

As research outlines, although AI is infiltrating rapidly into healthcare and the health tech market is growing at a fast pace, health professionals lack specific skills in digital/AI technology and the ethical and legal methods for its trustworthy use, which are critical considering the sensitivity of the field and the new EU regulation.

EU contribution:
€ 400.000,00