Athena - Research and Innovation Centre

ATHENA participates in the project with its Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI). IMSI conducts research and innovation (R&I) activities in the areas of data management and large-scale information systems, being one of the leading institutes in the EU in Big Data and AI technologies. IMSI has extensive experience and expertise in data discovery, data analytics, data integration, semantic interoperability, and information extraction and retrieval, including the use of GenAI technologies to manage, analyse and create value from data. IMSI coordinates and participates in several EU and national R&I projects in these areas. Moreover, it actively supports and promotes Open Science activities both at the European and national level.

Role in the project:

ATHENA is the project coordinator and will also lead the activities in WPs 2 & 3, which are responsible for developing the WiseFood tools and applications, namely FoodScholar, RecipeWrangler, and FoodChat. ATHENA will also contribute to the design of the WiseFood framework and to the activities for ensuring AI robustness, trustworthiness, and compliance.