Projects

Participation and leadership in international projects

AI Research Enhancement through Networked Agents (EOSC ARENA)

Type: International

Funding: European Union (Horizon Europe), Grant no. 101292597

Duration: June 2026 - May 2029

Budget: €8,391,245

Coordinator: Marcin Plociennik (PSNC)

Role: Scientific coordinator of the project

Main tasks: Coordination of the integration of generative AI and agent models into the ARENA and AI4EOSC platforms, research on federated learning methods for generative AI, and contribution to privacy- and security-preserving good practices for AI use. Scientific coordinator of the project and member of the project coordination committee.

AI4Clouds

Type: International

Funding: EUMETSAT tender, No. 24/228180 Lot 3: Enhancement of the short-term forecast of clouds

Duration: April 2025 - May 2026

Budget: Not disclosed

Coordinator: F. Iglesias-Suárez (Predictia)

Main tasks: Acquisition of data, preprocessing, harmonization, and curation to build the AI4Clouds model, contributing to both model development and deployment activities.

Secure and Interactive Environments for Sensitive daTa Analytics (EOSC SIESTA)

Type: International

Funding: European Union (Horizon Europe), Grant no. 101131957

Duration: January 2024 - December 2026

Budget: €4,999,999.55

Coordinator: Á. López García (CSIC)

Role: Project impact WP leader

Main tasks: Development and implementation of anonymization and pseudonymization tools, differential privacy methods, and re-identification risk control. Contribution to the proposal writing and coordination of tasks focused on data privacy and anonymization.

Artificial Intelligence for the European Open Science Cloud (AI4EOSC)

Type: International

Funding: European Union (Horizon Europe), Grant no. 101058593

Duration: September 2022 - August 2025

Budget: €4,997,125

Coordinator: Á. López García (CSIC)

Role: Responsible of the integration of Federated Learning in the platform

Main tasks: Implementation and integration of distributed machine learning architectures, especially federated learning, support for use cases, and organization of technical workshops and tutorials. Work on distributed machine learning architectures and training activities for users and researchers.

Participation in competitive national projects

ENGRAMMER

Type: National

Funding: SOMMA IA 2024-2027

Duration: November 2024 - June 2026

Budget: €635,000

Coordinator: J. Marco de Lucas, D. Rodríguez González (CSIC)

Main tasks: Work on privacy-preserving LLMs and on data security and privacy issues arising in the project Contribution to privacy-preserving LLM development and data security and privacy topics.

FAIR Computational Epidemiology (FACE)

Type: National

Funding: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Grant no. SGL2021-03

Duration: April 2021 - December 2022 (extended to December 2023)

Budget: €935,354

Coordinator: J. J. Ramasco Sukia (CSIC)

Main tasks: Development and integration of predictive models based on data science, deep learning, and machine learning, together with anonymization techniques and secure data access. Development of predictive models and anonymization techniques for secure data access.