ELLIS is the most prestigious European network of scientific excellence in modern AI. The ELLIS Alicante unit, one of its 41 units, is the only one established from scratch as a private research foundation dedicated to studying the intersection between people and AI. The programme identifies and selects young research talent, connecting them with leading European researchers within the ELLIS network. It offers predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers a wide variety of training and networking activities, including summer and winter schools, conferences organised by the ELLIS network, such as the annual ELLIS (post)doctoral symposium, as well as access to cutting-edge technology infrastructure. The Banco Sabadell Foundation bursaries support six PhD students and three postdoctoral researchers participating in the ELLIS postdoctoral programme.
“We began to wonder why we had not yet explored, from an ethnographic perspective, the significance of wool for the city of Sabadell. We discovered the importance of wool as a material with distinctive qualities, which proved to be a highly versatile material for use in interior design, architecture and other fields.” Encarna Ruiz, ESDI Academic Director