# ARCADIA

> Source: <https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/en/research/projects/ongoing/arcadia>
> Published: 2026-07-29 12:51:00+00:00

# ARCADIA

### PROJECT TITLE : Advancing Responsible, Compliant, and ethical AI-Driven knowledge vAlorisation for early-stage innovation

**Keywords: *** Knowledge valorisation, AI-powered Toolbox, IP strategy & licensing, technology transfer, AI Act & GDPR compliance*

**Short info on project & task of CiTiP in that project:**

ARCADIA 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.

CiTiP 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.

For more information on the project, you can consult:

Time span: |
2026/06/01 - 2028/05/31 |
Assigned by: |
Horizon Europe (HORIZON-CL4-2025-01-HUMAN-62, HORIZON-CSA) Grant Agreement number:
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**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
- AXLR SATT Occitanie Méditerranée, France
- CEFRIEL Società Consortile a r.l. Società Benefit, Italy
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
- Fondazione Hub Innovazione Trentino (HIT), Italy
**=> Coordinator** - Institut Golemi Danni v Polza na Inteligentnoto Obshtestvo (GATE Institute), Bulgaria
- IPscreener AutoMatch Sweden AB (IPS), Sweden
- KU Leuven CiTiP
- Scienseed SL (SCS), Spain
- Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (VTT), Finland
- Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland
- Università degli Studi di Trento (UNITN), Italy