Advanced Local Digital Twins using AI for Early Warning and Preparedness
Pays one European project EUR 6 million to build AI-driven local digital twins that model and predict urban and river flooding for disaster preparedness.
The topic recommends using frugal and local AI models wherever possible rather than large general-purpose ones, both to keep the tool's own emissions down and so it keeps working somewhere with limited internet connectivity, since the results are meant to be reusable outside Europe, including in lower and middle-income countries. Proposals have to account for the Joint Research Centre's own expert…
The Commission wants proposals that build Local Digital Twins combining AI algorithms with hydrological and hydraulic models to simulate flood scenarios, map at-risk areas and estimate building-level damage. It wants the results open-sourced, modular and reusable outside Europe, including in places with limited connectivity.
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