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ELLIS - the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems - is a pan-European AI network of excellence which focuses on fundamental science, technical innovation and societal impact. Founded in 2018, ELLIS builds upon machine learning as the driver for modern AI and aims to secure Europe’s sovereignty in this competitive field by creating a multi-centric AI research laboratory. ELLIS wants to ensure that the highest level of AI research is performed in the open societies of Europe and follows a three-pillar strategy to achieve that.
ELLIS Research Programs

The ELLIS research programs focus on areas with the potential to move the needle in modern AI - from basic research in theory and algorithms to applications in health and climate sciences. They include outstanding researchers as ELLIS Fellows and Scholars. Currently, there are 16 different research programs in ELLIS.

ELLIS PhD & Postdoc Program

The ELLIS PhD and Postdoc program offers outstanding young researchers from all over the world a unique entry point to cutting-edge machine learning research by connecting them to leading scientists across Europe and by offering them a variety of training activities. Students can choose between an academic and an industry track.

ELLIS Sites

ELLIS is creating a network of research sites across Europe which are either located at existing AI research institutions or created from scratch. Currently, there are 41 ELLIS Units and 1 Associate Unit in 17 countries. The long-term goal is to establish a set of world-class ELLIS institutes distributed across Europe, each acting as the core of a local AI ecosystem.

Latest News

Beyond the Thesis with Edoardo Caldarelli

07 July 2025

Beyond the Thesis with Edoardo Caldarelli

Edoardo Caldarelli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, working on data-driven control algorith...

Beyond the Thesis with Mathis Petrovich

30 June 2025

Beyond the Thesis with Mathis Petrovich

Mathis is a research scientist at NVIDIA, working in the field of 3D human motion synthesis - building on the focus of his PhD,...

Exploring the Frontiers of Language and Speech: Highlights from the 2025 ELLIS NLP & Speech Recognition Workshop

26 June 2025

Exploring the Frontiers of Language and Speech: Highlights from the 2025 ELLIS NLP & Speech Recognition Workshop

This year's ELLIS Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition took place on June 4, 2025, in a fully online ...

Latest events

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2025-07-14 - 2025-07-18

ELLIS Summer School at Unit Cambridge

Topic: Probabilistic Machine Learning

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2025-07-19 - 2025-07-25

ELLIS Unit Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS)

The Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2025) is scheduled for July 19–25, 2025, at the Congress Center of Instituto S...

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2025-08-04 - 2025-08-08

CISPA ELLIS Summer School in Saarbrücken

Topic: Trustworthy AI (Secure and Safe Foundation Models)