Successful next step in the Excellence Strategy TU Darmstadt has the chance of establishing three Clusters of Excellence

Huge success for the Technical University of Darmstadt: In the prestigious Excellence Strategy from the German federal and state governments, TU Darmstadt has reached an important milestone. It has been selected and invited to prepare full applications for the outline proposals “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI), “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM) and “CoM2Life” in fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science and biomaterials and submit them for funding as part of the Cluster of Excellence funding line. The selections were made by an international panel of experts. A total of 143 outline proposals were submitted to the German Research Foundation (DFG), of which 41 have now been invited to submit full applications for the second round of the Excellence Strategy funding programme.

The cluster project CoM2Life

Researchers in the CoM2Life project at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and TU Darmstadt are conducting research into biomaterials that will enable medical innovations such as tissue repair or the development of artificial organs.

The cluster project “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI)

Although deep learning (DL) has enabled important advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) over the last ten years, current AI systems have displayed some significant weaknesses, such as an inability to reason, difficulty handling new situations and a need for continuous adjustments. Last but not least, current AI systems also require substantial resources. The aim of the Cluster of Excellence project “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI) is thus to develop the next generation of reasonable AI.

The cluster project “The Adaptive Mind” clears the first hurdle in its application for Cluster of Excellence funding

The research project “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM), in which TU Darmstadt is participating, was successful in the first round of the Excellence Strategy. The researchers are now able to submit a full application – and hope that they will ultimately be awarded a prestigious Cluster of Excellence grant. The project aims to understand how the human mind is able to adapt.