AI Competence for Sweden develops a national distributed platform for increasing AI competence in Sweden, supported by the Swedish government during 2018-2021. Umeå University is one of the universities participating in this initiative. Other are Chalmers, KTH, Örebro University, Linköping University, Lund University and Göteborg University. The following are some of the activities organised in Umeå during 2019-2020 to increase knowledge about AI in society, and to make Umeå a strong node in the AI Competence for Sweden network:
- Courses on AI for the industry and societal organisations
- Study Fridays with public events to increase knowledge and dialogue about AI
- Further development of existing education at Umeå University to include more AI
- AI&Lunch seminars
- AI Fridays hosting different seminars, workshops and from October 2020 #FrAIdays
- Develop the local infrastructure for AI education, research and collaboration with society including labs, networks and projects, and the national platform for collaboration for AI Competence for Sweden
For more information, contact Helena Lindgren (helena.lindgren@umu.se), Umeå University’s representative in the AI Competence for Sweden national work group together with Anna Mannelqvist, and Chair of the local work group at Umeå University.
Local work group:
Helena Lindgren, Department of Computing Science
Karin Danielsson, Department of Informatics
Per Holm, Humlab
Anna Mannelqvist, External Relations Office
Mikael Hansson, Department of Computing Science (communication)
Tommy Löfstedt, Department of Radiation Sciences (2018-2019)
Ola Ringdahl, Department of Computing Science (2018-2019)
Patrik Rydén, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (2018-2019)