{"slug": "arcadia", "title": "ARCADIA", "summary": "The Horizon Europe-funded ARCADIA project, coordinated by the GATE Institute in Bulgaria, will develop a modular AI-powered Toolbox to help researchers and innovation offices valorise publicly funded European research, with KU Leuven CiTiP co-leading legal, ethical and data-governance assessments to ensure alignment with the AI Act, GDPR and IP frameworks.", "body_md": "# ARCADIA\n\n### PROJECT TITLE : Advancing Responsible, Compliant, and ethical AI-Driven knowledge vAlorisation for early-stage innovation\n\n**Keywords: *** Knowledge valorisation, AI-powered Toolbox, IP strategy & licensing, technology transfer, AI Act & GDPR compliance*\n\n**Short info on project & task of CiTiP in that project:**\n\nARCADIA is a 24-month Horizon Europe Coordination and Support Action addressing the fact that the vast majority of publicly funded European research remains underused. The project develops a modular, AI-powered Toolbox that guides researchers, knowledge valorisation intermediaries and innovation offices through the valorisation journey — opportunity discovery, strategic roadmapping, IP decision support and stakeholder engagement — supported by a FAIR-compliant Knowledge Base and validated across more than 100 real-world use cases.\n\nCiTiP will co-lead, together with FBK and VTT, the assessment of the legal, ethical and data-governance context underpinning the Toolbox, ensuring alignment with the AI Act, GDPR and IP frameworks; act as a permanent member of the project's Regulatory Intelligence & Ethics Task Force; develop legal, ethical and IP guidance for the Toolbox's IP decision-support module — CiTiP's main task within the project; and contribute to the synthesis of policy recommendations on emerging EU valorisation and innovation law.\n\nFor more information on the project, you can consult:\n\nTime span: |\n2026/06/01 - 2028/05/31 |\nAssigned by: |\nHorizon Europe (HORIZON-CL4-2025-01-HUMAN-62, HORIZON-CSA) Grant Agreement number:\n|\n\n**Promoter:**[Thomas Margoni](https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/en/staff-members/staff/00137042)** Co-promoter:****Staff:**[Matteo Frigeri](https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/en/staff-members/staff/00164191)** Contact:****Partner(s):**- Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP), Netherlands\n- AXLR SATT Occitanie Méditerranée, France\n- CEFRIEL Società Consortile a r.l. Società Benefit, Italy\n- Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy\n- Fondazione Hub Innovazione Trentino (HIT), Italy\n**=> Coordinator** - Institut Golemi Danni v Polza na Inteligentnoto Obshtestvo (GATE Institute), Bulgaria\n- IPscreener AutoMatch Sweden AB (IPS), Sweden\n- KU Leuven CiTiP\n- Scienseed SL (SCS), Spain\n- Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (VTT), Finland\n- Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland\n- Università degli Studi di Trento (UNITN), Italy", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcadia", "canonical_source": "https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/en/research/projects/ongoing/arcadia", "published_at": "2026-07-29 12:51:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 13:36:25.719223+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["GATE Institute", "KU Leuven CiTiP", "Horizon Europe", "Fondazione Bruno Kessler", "Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy", "Thomas Margoni", "Matteo Frigeri", "Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcadia", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcadia.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcadia.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcadia.jsonld"}}