Discover how innovation partnerships are driving AI-powered solutions across sectors in our latest study, complete with key statistics and real-world examples.

A new EU study reveals how Artificial Intelligence could revolutionise public sector services, boosting efficiency and citizen engagement in areas like healthcare, mobility, and e-Government. While highlighting challenges such as data management and regulatory clarity, the report offers strategic recommendations to accelerate AI adoption across the EU.

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These EU model contractual AI clauses are made available by this community for further piloting after a peer review by experts. These clauses support EU public buyers in procuring AI-enabled solutions that are trustworthy, fair and secure.

Explore Innovation Partnerships of AI and discover potential risks, trends and challenges of AI in a straightforward and clear way.

Slides - Roundtables on Procurement Clauses of AI - Session 2

On the 25th of May 2023 the first session of the Roundtables was held. The recordings of the plenary session opening the roundtables are uploaded in this resource. It introduces and explains who organised the round tables and provides a useful overview of the policy context of the Procurement Clauses of AI and the latest developments of the AI Act.

This report includes the conclusions of the webinars held to discover different roles of public sector with regard to AI, together with the material and main findings of the closing event. It reveals recent challenges, opportunities, and policy perspectives of the use of AI in the public sector, and distils a set of short takeaway messages.

Barcelona City Council has approved its “Definition of work methodologies and protocols for implementing algorithmic systems”, which aims to create an internal protocol for implementing algorithmic systems at a municipal level. This is a pioneering document in regard to the regulation and governance of algorithmic systems at a local level. It is applicable to any algorithmic system promoted by Barcelona City Council, and aims to guarantee that such systems are used in a proportionate, supervised and grounded way, in accordance with legal, ethical and technical standards.

Model contractual clauses for the EU public procurement of trustworthy AI services aligned with the forthcoming AI Act framework. These clauses support EU public buyers in procuring AI-enabled solutions that are trustworthy, fair and secure.

The Eurocities Digital Forum Lab aims at developing a common data schema for interoperable algorithm registers, based on the existing practices by Amsterdam and Helsinki.

MIM 5 provides technical tools and guidance to support cities in procuring and using fair and transparent AI. It will support the checks needed to use the contract clauses for procurement and align with the work on the Algorithm Registries.

In this interview the City of Amsterdam and Jeroen Naves tell us why they started to work on AI clauses, what are their experiences working with them, why EU collaboration is needed and what are the most difficult issues to overcome.

High-Level Policy round table

The aim of this report is to assess how national strategies contribute to the achievement of the goals of the reviewed Coordination Plan.

This handbook is developed in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Watch, as the first endeavor at European level outlining actionable guidelines to promote the adoption of safe, lawful, inclusive and trustworthy AI by public sector administrations in the EU.

On May 17th 2022 DG GROW C2 organised a follow up webinar on the public procurement of AI together with DG CNECT. This news item contains all slides and the link to watch the webinar

The Commission has proposed the first ever legal framework on AI, which addresses the risks of AI and positions Europe to play a leading role globally.

The 2021 Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence, published in April of that year, builds on the collaboration established between the Commission and Member States during the 2018 Coordinated Plan.