Funding and Content Programmes

European Commission

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.

Harvest Programme

Harvest sub-programme provides opportunities for close collaboration between academic and industry researchers. Harvest projects provide a forum for the development of exemplar applications of direct relevance to industry that can demonstrate the power and range of applicability of the developed approaches.

Challenges Programme

Competition has always driven people to achieve results that are better than they might have achieved working alone. Knowledge 4 All Foundation runs its highly successful Challenges programme, enabling its members to create their own Machine Learning challenges for each other and to disseminate their results in K4A-sponsored workshops. The Challenges also enabled diverse real-world applications from other fields to be introduced to the machine learning community. More than twenty challenges were held during the lifetime of PASCAL2 and PASCAL, some now so established that they have steered research agendas across the world; their regular workshops are almost conferences in their own right. From sign language to mind-reading, and heart sounds to distorted galaxies, here are some of the challenges.

Pump Prime Programme

One pioneering approach that showed enormous success is the Pump Priming Programme. While providing money for travel and secondments is always effective, there is nothing like the opportunity for research funding to focus the minds of academics. Knowledge 4 All continues its role of a mini funding agency and encouraged its members and others outside the field to collaborate and perform exciting new research together by supporting a series of preliminary investigations in areas of interest to the network.

Lacuna Fund Programme

Lacuna Fund is the world’s first collaborative effort to provide data scientists, researchers, and social entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income contexts.

Video Journals Programme

The Video Journal Programme provides an innovative platform for researchers to present and share their work through concise, engaging video abstracts. Designed to enhance accessibility and understanding, the programme enables authors to summarize their research papers in short videos, giving viewers a quick yet insightful overview of the key ideas, contributions, and relevance of the work. Each video is linked to the original paper and additional materials, fostering a comprehensive understanding and encouraging discussions through interactive comment features.