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Tampere University of Technology and University of Tampere were merged on 1 January 2019 into new multidisciplinary foundation based Tampere University (TAU). This created Finland’s second largest university, TAU, of which priority areas are technology, health and society. Tampere University consists of 30,000 students, 330 professors and 4,400 employees. Annually, TAU allocates some €10M for doctoral education. Special attention in Doctoral training is paid to internationality and methodological, working life and researcher skills. Both TUT and UTA have long experience on EU funding and have an EU support team dealing with legal, financial and administrative issues. Both TUT and UTA have been awarded with the European Commission’s “HR Excellence in Research” logo. The project will be hosted in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC). The main RISE activity will associate with Electrical Engineering Unit (EEU) with interaction with other units. EEU has long history in wireless communications and networks, radio positioning and sensing research. The research spans from theoretical inference to experimental system. Host provides knowledge from aspects of radio propagation, components behaviour and information theory and the limitations of these factor in the future 5G and beyond communications. In terms of training and career development, TAU has dedicated career development team that looks after strategic career development planning and professional development across the multiple stages of the applicant’s career. The professional skills will be essential for enhancing the profile of the applicant and propelling the applicant with the academic momentum to excel at future faculty postings.

Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) is a non-profit organisation, of public interest, a partnership of nine institutions: University of Aveiro, Technical University of Lisbon, University of Coimbra, Altice Labs., Nokia, University of Beira Interior, University of Porto ISCTE-University Lisbon and Instituto Politécnico de Leiria. IT members (about 260 PhD holders) are organised into research groups which cover most of the R&D areas in Telecommunications and supporting sciences and technologies. IT has hosted about 300 PhD students and about 200 MSc students. Advanced laboratory facilities are available in most Scientific Areas of IT to support applied research, which is carried out in the framework of national and international projects in cooperation with similar research institutions worldwide. Each year IT is involved in more than 160 projects, of which about 30 have European funding, obtained in a competitive basis.

Turing Intelligence Technology Ltd (TUR) is a research and innovation-driven Artificial Intelligence SME, which spans out from University College London (UCL). The founding team consists of Dr-level or above researchers in their respective fields and university professors in respective research areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering, big data and system engineering. Most team members have won awards for their researches such as best paper awards, hackathons and research grants. TUR has been active in research and development and has experience in applying cutting-edge technologies inside large data/financial science institutions, as well as technology firms such as Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, and AMD etc. TUR pursues research and prototyping achievements in the areas of artificial intelligence, genetic improvement, automatic code optimisation, and software testing. As part of its strategy, TUR aims at offering the incubation, technology and services, as well as at attracting investments for independent businesses that will be created for the exploitation of commercialization of its mostly mature, validated and demonstrated research prototypes. The project will be hosted on the TUR premises in London, UK.

University of Warwick (UoW) is a world‐class university and ranked 62nd by the QS World University Ranking in 2020. It has an annual research income over £100M and hosts over 1900 researchers and 24,000 students. The results of the last national Research Excellence Framework (REF) held in 2014 reiterated Warwick’s position as one of the UK’s leading research universities. School of Engineering (SoE) is ranked as the 3rd strongest general engineering facility, after only Oxford and Cambridge. The UoW is host to students and staff from all over the world with around 120 nationalities represented on campus. The University therefore has long experience in supporting staff from outside the UK and provides them with extensive help and information before and after their arrival. Warwick is also highly experienced at providing support for Marie-Curie fellows and RISE actions in many departments over past 10 years. The project will be hosted by the SoE, which allows different areas to collaborate seamlessly and existing and visiting staff will have an opportunity to apply his/her knowledge to a wide area of engineering. In terms of the laboratory space and the quality of the environment: PI and CoIs are members of the Connected Systems Group (CSG), which has 8 actively research faculty staff and over 20 doctoral/post-doctoral researchers in optical, radio frequency, molecular and acoustic communications. It has 2 laboratories conducting a wide range of theoretical, simulation and experimental research. In terms of training and career development, UoW has dedicated career development team that looks after strategic career development planning and professional development across the multiple stages of the applicant’s career.

Skein Ltd (SK) is an independent research, development and consultancy SME based in Kyiv, Ukraine. It has been creating innovative solutions since 2009 applying advanced IT technologies such as big data processing and analytics, machine learning, distributed ledger technologies and following the innovation approaches including Product Thinking, User Experience (UX) research and design and agile development. Skein works with public and private sector companies and collaborates with universities’ research teams to form multidisciplinary groups for identifying, exploring and addressing problems that people, communities, businesses and societies face. Obtained the Top Employer status by the leading recruitment portal in Ukraine. Skein developed solutions for companies in the IoT, media, health and Fintech such as Sky, TP-Link, University of Geneva and multiple high-growth innovative start-ups. It also builds and commercialises proprietary tools and products, incubates early-stage innovative technology teams from idea to proof of concept, organises open data community events, workshops, hackathons and conferences. The project will be hosted on the Skein premises in Kyiv, Ukraine

Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (NURE) is one of the oldest Universities of Technologies in Ukraine of the highest accreditation level with over 7000 students (Bachelor, Master and PhD cycles) trained at 8 faculties and 30 scientific centres and laboratories providing research and innovation activities. It has strong research and education capabilities in computer science, information technologies, security, hosts the Eastern-Ukrainian branches of the IEEE, pioneered the development of distance learning in Ukraine. It has high expertise in introduction of innovative technologies into education and business, takes part in various national and international R&D projects. Researchers from Artificial Intelligence Department (AI Dep), involved in this project, were invited to join the OntoWeb European Network of Excellence and to represent Ukraine in Management Committee of 6 COST program Actions under H2020. Strategy for Internationalization of NURE envisages to foster collaboration within international EU projects especially focused on enhancing research in interdisciplinary fields and provides researchers with an opportunity to work together with foreign colleagues for developing solutions to the global challenges. AI Dep was established and dynamically grew due to the mutually beneficial research and educational collaboration with EU Universities (Finnish, Portugal, French). Researchers have carried out research and development in the field of AI based tools, resources, services, and environments supporting new forms of data accumulation, representation, procession and sharing based on semantic technologies and artificial intelligence methods and models.