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Case studies collaborations

Bridging Tabular, Graph and Relational Foundation models

Mechanistic Interpretability for Tabular Transformers

ELSA lab AI for Health Equity

Advancing Machine Learning Methods for High-Frequency Financial Time-Series Data

Mechanistic Interpretability for Time-Series Transformers

Identifying Causal Drivers of User Behaviour in Transaction Processes through Data Reuse and Targeted A/B Testing

Reinforcement Learning for Integrated Transaction Authentication and Authorization

Data-Driven Mathematical Modelling and Computational Methods for Pricing and Hedging Renewable Energy Contracts

AI Data Quality Systems in the Financial Sector

Robust Fraud Detection with Causal Machine Learning

Knowledge-Driven Learning for XAI in Fraud Detection

HyperMining: Explainable Anti-Money Laundering

ESG Regulation Impact on Financial Stability

The AI Society

Artificial Intelligence for Due-Diligence Analysis

ASSIST

Make Robots Talk

Atlas Lab

Language Sciences for Social Good

Energy efficient AI

Case studies collaborations

D66 Amsterdam Aims for 100,000 AI-Literate Residents by 2030

D66 Amsterdam is calling for a city where at least 100,000 residents can use AI safely and competently by 2030.
2 October 2026

‘Technology used to bring the world together. Now it’s driving the world apart.’

In The Techtonic Shift, Paul Verhagen examines how Big Tech is reshaping global power relations.
2 October 2026

AI models disagree on who deserves help

UvA research on 21 language models shows AI systems largely agree on rewarding good behaviour, but diverge sharply in how they judge someone with a bad reputation, with consequences for cooperation.
30 September 2026

Dutch initiative asks Europe for €1 billion to secure its own software foundations

A European coalition of scientists and companies, with CWI among the initiators, handed a new research agenda to the European Commission to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty.
30 September 2026

‘The answer is there, but understanding still needs to follow’

In conversation with Han Peters about OpenAI and the solution to a two-hundred-year-old mathematical problem
24 September 2026

AI use in opinion pieces: three HvA experts add nuance to the debate

As detection software increasingly “unmasks” articles as AI-written, three HvA experts respond to the question of how serious that actually is.
21 September 2026

CWI honours two scientists whose research makes AI more efficient and reliable

CWI has awarded the five-yearly Van Wijngaarden Awards 2026 to Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb and Mor Harchol-Balter, putting the Dutch perspective on AI on the European agenda.
21 September 2026

New European AI recommendation aims to make students and teachers more resilient

The Council of Europe has adopted a new recommendation on AI literacy, drawing on input from a VU expert, that closely aligns with the VU’s own digitalisation strategy.
18 September 2026

AI software from CWI and VU Amsterdam nominated for logistics impact award

Open-source software that better aligns transport and production planning, developed by researchers at CWI and the VU, was nominated for the TKI Dinalog Impact Award.
18 September 2026

AI brain implant aims to restore functional vision for blind people

Phosphoenix raises €1.3 million, backed by partner ROM InWest, to accelerate preparations for its first clinical study of an AI-driven brain implant for people with severe blindness.
16 September 2026

How TomTom is turning from a navigation app into the intelligence layer behind autonomous driving

Amsterdam-based TomTom is fully committing to a new role as the intelligence layer for autonomous driving and agentic AI, built on up-to-date geospatial data.
15 September 2026

Who is building Europe’s digital future? VU research on the role of labour migrants

Political scientist Julia Rone (VU) has received an ERC Starting Grant to systematically study how labour migrants, from AI specialists to technical staff, help make Europe’s digital strategic autonomy possible.
15 September 2026

Amsterdam’s growth engine is stalling: Amsterdam Economic Board calls for sharper choices on AI and tech

Jessica Peters-Hondelink, managing director of the Amsterdam Economic Board, argues for sharper regional choices around themes including Tech & AI, as economic growth in the Amsterdam metropolitan area stalls.
12 September 2026

Lowlands festival visitors help train AI to spot cancer patients faster

Using a game at Lowlands festival, pathologist Hugo Horlings (NKI) collected thousands of annotated tumour cells to train AI models that help doctors determine which patients benefit from immunotherapy.
8 September 2026

Fair school placement takes more than a good algorithm

New PhD research by Mayesha Tasnim (University of Amsterdam) shows that systems assigning school places can tempt parents into strategic reporting, creating unequal chances.
5 September 2026

New UvA and Amsterdam UMC report: healthcare staff adopt AI faster than their organisations

The Innovatiemonitor voor de Zorg 2026 shows that nearly 4 in 10 healthcare employees already work with AI, while healthcare organisations lag behind the wider business sector in AI maturity.
4 September 2026

Without data skills, citizens risk losing their political voice

New PhD research by Guillén Torres Sepulveda (University of Amsterdam) shows that the rise of open government data can push citizens without data skills further from politics, not closer to it.
3 September 2026

UvA robot uses AI to improve medicines such as Ozempic

UvA researchers are building an AI-guided robot that can independently optimise peptides, work that currently takes months of repetitive and sometimes hazardous lab time.
2 September 2026

Health & Care

Registration open for the National Healthcare Innovation Award 2027

Entrepreneurs with a scalable healthcare innovation can now register for the Netherlands’ leading award for technological innovation in care
1 September 2026

AI Thesis Fair & Thesis Fair 2026: find your next thesis student

On Friday, 16 October, the University of Amsterdam’s Graduate School of Informatics hosts the AI Thesis Fair (AITF) and the Thesis Fair (TF), both taking place this year at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam.
1 September 2026

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EDIH Digital Hub Noordwest

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University of Amsterdam

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

University of Applied Sciences

Amsterdam Economic Board

Sanquin

City of Amsterdam

ROM InWest

Netherlands Cancer Institute

Amsterdam UMC

Thematic Communities

AI4Fintech

Public Engagement Fellows