Support for 20 projects open to international cooperation comes as Japan and EU discuss deeper partnership on AI
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The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has opened a call for research and innovation projects for AI in science, including funding aimed at boosting international cooperation.
The cooperation-driven call, which complements a call for strategic projects, will fund around 20 projects, each with an approximate budget of JPY 200 million , or a little over €1 million. But JST is open to extending this financing to as much as JPY 650 million per project.
The International/Convergence call, as JST calls it, will fund research in any field of science that helps advance tools for AI in science, including emerging and interdisciplinary projects.
“In particular, rather than merely applying existing AI technologies, this call supports R&D aimed at solving previously unsolved scientific questions by embedding domain-specific theories, laws, structural knowledge and…
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