The right to an explanation under Article 86 of the AI Act: An effective individual right or a merely symbolic guarantee? Article 86 of the AI Act is intended, under certain conditions, to enable persons affected by a decision based on the output of a high-risk AI system to obtain a clear and meaningful explanation
Launch of IHI JU PROBE Initiative to Transform Osteoarthritis Treatment We are proud to announce today's launch of our new research project PROBE, an IHI-funded pioneering initiative to transform osteoarthritis treatment through federated data and AI-driven clinical innovation. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive joint disease affecting over 500 million people globally, causing pain, disability,
Insights into the General Assembly of the “dAIbetes” Research Project in Lisbon Collaboration within the Horizon Europe project “dAIbetes” continued with the second General Assembly Meeting, held on 13 and 14 November 2025 in Lisbon. The Research Institute was represented by Madeleine Müller, Walter Hötzendorfer and Georg Fröwis. Background to the project Type
On 23 September 2025, the 6th General Assembly of the Horizon Europe project REPO4EU took place at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB). The meeting was followed by the 4th International Conference on Systems Medicine, Artificial Intelligence and Drug Repurposing (RExPO25), held from 24–26 September. The Research Institute – Digital Human Rights Center was represented in Barcelona by Markus Kastelitz and
English version of the project results of “Enlightenment 4.0 – Human understanding of AI decision-making” published on website of the Ministry of Social Affairs Project background and key questions How can decisions made or supported by artificial intelligence (AI) be made comprehensible for those affected? This question was investigated as part of the project
Federated learning and diabetes research: Horizon project “dAIbetes” launched in Innsbruck with RI as project partnerThe pioneering Horizon project “dAIbetes” was launched on 22 and 23 January 2024, when the project partners, led by Prof. Jan Baumbach from the University of Hamburg, gathered in Innsbruck (Austria) for the official kick-off-event. This EU-funded project brings together
Project Kick-off “FAIR-AI” – Fostering Austria’s Innovative strength and research excellence in Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - Digital Human Rights Center is happy to announce the launch of the Austrian Artificial Intelligence Mission flagship project "FAIR-AI - Fostering Austria's Innovative strength and research excellence in Artificial Intelligence" under the leadership of th austrian institute of
We now have our own Mastodon server at https://mastodon.researchinstitute.at. What is Mastodon? Mastodon is a social media platform that is part of the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is a network of federated, independent social networks and offers alternatives to commercial platforms. Peertube is a platform for video hosting (similar to YouTube). PixelFed[2][3] specialises in posting
The Paper The paper called "The FeatureCloud Platform for Federated Learning in Biomedicine: Unified Approach" introduces FeatureCloud, an innovative platform designed to simplify federated learning (FL) in various fields, with a focus on biomedicine. FL is a technique that enables the training of machine learning models using decentralized data sources without sharing sensitive information. Existing