2024 Paris Peace Forum Call for AI Projects: (Deadline 7 October, 2024)

Could AI be at the heart of solutions to our global challenges? As part of the AI Action Summit, taking place on 10-11 February 2025 in Paris, the Paris Peace Forum is launching an ambitious Call for Projects focused on artificial intelligence.

The AI revolution is bringing about major changes in our lives, our jobs and our societies, and these can divide us in new, unprecedented ways. To ensure that these technologies benefit everyone, the Call for AI Projects aims to support global initiatives that improve the lives of citizens and ethically frame AI. Selected projects will be presented at the AI Action Summit, providing an international platform for sharing inclusive solutions, with a particular focus on engaging civil society and the global South.

This new Call is part of the Paris Peace Forum‘s ongoing work on innovative global governance solutions (over 500 projects selected and presented since 2018).

Thematic Areas of AI Projects

They are inviting applications on the following 5 themes:

Trust in Democracy, information, security and safety

• Combating misinformation
• Improving public access to information
• Digital inclusion and accessibility
• Safety, transparency and accountability

AI and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Environmental sustainability
• AI for Climate Action
• Agriculture and food systems
• Nutrition
• Global health, scientific cooperation
• Education
• Gender

Work and well-being

• Inclusive and equitable AI
• Spreading productivity gains
• Defending AI workers

Governance, ethics, responsibility and crisis response

• Global AI governance
• Ethical AI, supervision and transparency of algorithms
• AI for early warning and disaster management
• Humanitarian action
• Crisis management and conflict prevention

Culture

• Dissemination of creative tools
• Protecting copyright

Benefits of AI Projects

• Selected projects will benefit from international visibility, networking opportunities with experts and decision-makers, and integration into the global community of innovators for the common good.

Eligibility

• Applications must be submitted by organizations, not individuals, and must align with the Summit’s key themes. Projects must present a certain level of progress, be at least in the pilot phase and not just in the design or start-up phase, and involve a concrete, tangible and distinct solution.
• Research or academic work without concrete implementation will not be considered eligible, but this Call for AI Projects is part of a wider program where contributions and achievements from academia, the private sector, the public and civil society will be presented at the Summit.

Application

Applications must be submitted via the online form. Submissions received after the deadline of October 7, 2024 at 23:59 CET will not be considered.