The NGI Sargasso initiative, a unique collaborative ecosystem and program for promoting the Transatlantic cooperation for Next Generation Internet technologies with a human-centric approach, has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to join the EU-funded project FORGING in shaping a human-centered methodology in alignment with Industry 5.0.
Technological breakthroughs empowered by enabling technologies hold a transformation potential that can be funnelled to address industrial and societal grand challenges, like greening and digitalization. To exploit this transformative potential, the innovation journey that leads new emerging technologies to their market-uptake shall embed since its early value-sensitive considerations, such as environmental and societal implications.
FORGING proposes a pioneering methodology based on a value-sensitive innovation process to promote technological paths that are attentive to the environment and society. The project is focused on the human being in parallel with the technical context of Industry 5.0. To maximize the impact of the proposed action plan, FORGING acts in parallel as a hub for synergies, serving as a platform where projects with aligned missions can communicate with relevant stakeholders.
Upcoming FORGING Workshops in June 2024
FORGING has launched a new in-person workshop series that combine different disciplines to stimulate new technological pathways attentive to the environment and society: “Novel Enabling Technologies for a Sustainable Future”, diving deep into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cybersecurity, in the Italian city of Rome:
- Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (12-13 June) – REGISTER HERE.
- Workshop on Cyber Safe Data Transmission, Storage and Analysis Technologies (13-14 June) – REGISTER HERE.
These workshops are a great opportunity for the following stakeholders to co-define use cases of enabling emerging technologies in a sustainable and responsible way:
- Technology providers: researchers from RTOs and academia and start-ups with technologies from the targeted technological frameworks: AI and cyber safe data transmission, storage and analysis.
- Technology adopters or users: they can be from any industry.
- End user associations: they could be worker councils from manufacturing industries in a use case of AI in manufacturing process or a citizen association working on use of AI in insurance.
The travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed.
If you are interested, we invite you to find out more about the FORGING upcoming events.
