Europe's first ELLIS Institute is launched in Tübingen

Top European location for artificial intelligence: Europe's first ELLIS Institute is launched in Tübingen (Germany)

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Hector foundation supports the establishment of an ELLIS institute with 100 million euros

Stuttgart/Tübingen, January 27, 2022: With a funding of 100 million euros over a period of 10 years, the Hector foundation paves the way for the establishment of an ELLIS institute in Tübingen, Germany. Today, the signature of the funding agreement took place in Stuttgart. The planned ELLIS institute aims to attract the world's best machine learning talent and will provide them with outstanding conditions to conduct pioneering basic research in the field of artificial intelligence.

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ELLIS set to receive new funding to expand its activities in Tübingen

The Hector Stiftung has pledged to support the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) over a period of ten years.

The funds will finance the research of ELLIS Fellows at the Tübingen unit, thus serving as a decisive building block for the establishment of an ELLIS Institute.

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