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Green AI: ENFIELD Challenge & ECAI2025 Workshop

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🔴🟢 Red or Green Pill? Which path will AI take?

Last month, we officially launched the Green AI Challenge, part of the Horizon Europe ENFIELD – AI Network of Excellence, and October saw a major step forward during an intensive research visit to the Know Center in Graz (Austria) —a hub of AI research and cross-sector collaboration. Working alongside Nicki Lisa Cole we advanced the conceptual and methodological foundations of our Green AI initiative, merging complementary perspectives into a promising framework for sustainable AI.

Why Green AI matters

AI is accelerating rapidly, but so are its environmental and societal side-effects – rising compute demands, energy-intensive models, and the broader ecological footprint of scaling AI. Policies, incentives, and institutional capacity are often lagging behind, creating a gap between AI adoption and responsible, sustainable practice.

The Green AI Challenge aims to understand how organizations across Europe approach Green AI, identifying struggles, gaps, and opportunities, and ultimately co-creating a validated framework for adoption that informs both policy and governance.

Community Call

We need insights from anyone working in AI, sustainability, digital transformation, public policy, or tech governance:

  • What perspectives on Green AI feel most critical today?
  • Where are the biggest gaps, risks, or untapped opportunities?
  • Examples of Green AI in practice (good or bad)?
  • Recommendations for interviews, readings, or collaborators?
  • Frameworks, metrics, or research to guide our work?

Your input will directly shape policy recommendations and adoption frameworks for a more sustainable, trustworthy AI future. Comment below or message us to contribute. Let’s choose the Green Pill together, as we also did with those who joined us earlier in October as part of ECAI2025 Green AI workshop.

Earlier last month, as part of the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2025) in Bologna, together with Riccardo Cantini, Luca Ferragina, Davide Mario Longo, Simona Nisticò, Francesco Scarcello, Reza Shahbazian, Dipanwita Thakur, Irina Trubitsyna, and Giovanna Varricchio, we organized a workshop on environmentally responsible AI, where across three thematic tracks of Sustainability, Green AI, and Applications, 17 talks exploring pathways toward sustainable AI practice were delivered, with the special highlight of keynote talk delivered by Thomas Eiter on “The Bilateral AI approach for Green and Sustainable AI,” introducing a framework that integrates symbolic and subsymbolic methods to advance more efficient and Ecologically Responsible AI.

🌱 All in all, the path forward is ours to shape. By working together—researchers, policymakers, and practitioners—we can turn Green AI from a vision into practice. Let’s continue this journey being committed to sustainable, responsible AI. Let’s choose the Green Pill, together. 🟢

Data for Policy 2025 Europe Edition

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And we are back with the new edition of Data for Policy 2025 Conference, preparation to which are in full swing! And as part of these preparations, we 📣 Call for Special Tracks for Data for Policy 2025 Europe Edition to be submitted by 11 December, 2024, with the conference itself to be held on 12-13 June, 2025, at Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands!

This time, the Data for Policy 2025 conference will run under the “Twin Transitions in Data and Policy for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future”.

Amidst global challenges, the “twin transition”—encompassing digital and green transformations—has garnered significant attention for its potential to reshape industrial ecosystems and influence social inequalities. However, in the scientific community and policy arena questions have been raised on whether green and digital transitions are mutually compatible or whether one transition can reduce or cancel out the other. Furthermore, we see sustainability as an integrative perspective that includes  environmental, social, economical and institutional sustainability.

Both public and private sectors are increasingly aligning their objectives towards digital innovation and sustainable practices 🌍. Governments are developing policies to guide these transitions, ensuring that technological advancements account for sustainability. Concurrently, substantial investments are being funneled into industries poised to drive this twin transition. Data lies at the heart of this transformation, empowering  policymakers to monitor progress in real-time, identify emerging trends, and design impactful and targeted strategies. From driving down carbon emissions to closing the digital divide, data-driven insights offer the actionable intelligence needed to tackle complex challenges and pave the way toward a more equitable, sustainable future. 

At this nexus, the theme of the European Data for Policy Conference is “Twin transitions in data and policy for a sustainable and inclusive future”, where we will delve into the implications of these transitions for governance, data usage, and policymaking 

With CFP to be launched in a month, now, we – Sarah Giest, Bram Klievnik (both local chairs), Leid Zejnilovic, Laura Zoboli, Anastasija Nikiforova – invite proposals for Special Tracks in two categories:

  • Research/Policy/Practitioner Tracks: These tracks should address how digital and green initiatives work together to overcome global challenges. Proposals should align with the conference theme, “Twin Transitions in Data and Policy for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future”.
  • Policy/Practitioner Tracks: We invite proposals from those focused on policy and real-world applications, addressing the broader Data for Policy theme.

Proposers are encouraged to consider region-specific challenges alongside the conference theme, which offers a framework but is open to all relevant Data for Policy topics.

🗓 Track Proposal Submission Deadline: 11 December, 2024
For more information on the call 👉 Data for Policy 2025 Conference – Europe Edition: Call for Special Tracks – Data for Policy, for more information on the conference 👉 Data for Policy 2025 Europe – Data for Policy

Accepted tracks will be part of the wider call for abstracts, full papers and panels, set to be released on 20 December, 2024, with Special Track chairs having the opportunity to propose an associated Special Collection in the Data & Policy journal published by Cambridge University Press & Assessment in due course. 

Keep an eye open on other regional editions taking place as part of the Data for Policy 2025 Conference Series.