SCAI: SOUND.AI, Winner of the COFUND Call for Projects

Starting in 2023, the SOUND.AI project will implement a highly selective program open to 30 internationally recruited PhD students. It will rely on the scientific and strategic policy of Sorbonne University and its partners to actively develop fundamental and applied projects around three flagship interdisciplinary fields:

• Changing societies, languages and cultures
• Global approach to health
• -Resources for a sustainable planet

The Sorbonne University Alliance1 has been working together since 2012 and the project partners support teaching through research, pedagogical innovation and the creation of experimental multi-disciplinary programs. 
The non-academic partners, who naturally fit into the three areas of the program, bring their transversal expertise. They also provide training on subjects in which they are specialists, such as cultural data (BnF), artistic creation (Ircam), health (APHP), renewable energies (IFPEN), AI system certification (LNE), and radiation (City of Paris). 

The project's European (ELLIS, CLAIRE, UCL) and North American (MILA, UC Berkeley, OBVIA) partners offer laureates a wide range of international mobility and training opportunities. These high-level partnerships all share a common objective: to develop human-centered research in artificial intelligence.nbsp;

Finally, the complementarity of the program's industrial partners is an essential element for the research and training of doctoral students. Their diversity— large corporations (EDF, Suez, Essilor, Pierre Fabre, SIEMENS, Valeo), SMEs (CRITEO, Naver Labs), and start-ups (Datacraft, Hugging Face, OpenClassrooms)—will enable the laureates to discover different professional cultures through training and research activities.
This range will allow the program to better adjust the content offered to the laureates from a professional point of view.

1 Sorbonne University Alliance: (Sorbonne University, MNHN, UTC, Insead, Inria, IRD, Inserm and CNRS)