The Modena ELLIS Unit to Host the Next ELLIOT Project Meeting

The Modena ELLIS Unit is pleased to announce that it will host the next project meeting of the ELLIOT project from March 11 to 13, 2026. The event will take place at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and will gather all project partners for three days of discussions, technical sessions, and collaborative planning.

The ELLIOT project, coordinated by CERTH, brings together a consortium of leading European institutions, including UNIMORE, CINECA, and several other academic and industrial partners. The project aims to advance the frontier of Multimodal Generative Foundation Models (MGFMs) through large-scale research and responsible AI innovation.

At its core, ELLIOT focuses on the collection and generation of multimodal data, encompassing text, structured data, code, images, audio, and video, and on their preprocessing and alignment for seamless integration. The project investigates the pretraining of MGFMs on heterogeneous datasets in a task-agnostic manner to foster general adaptability. Further research targets fine-tuning mechanisms, enabling learning and unlearning for domain specialization and bias mitigation.

A key priority of ELLIOT is the pursuit of trustworthy AI, emphasizing transparency, fairness, explainability, robustness, and energy-efficient “Green AI” principles. The consortium also leads comprehensive efforts on testing and evaluation, assessing MGFMs in both general-purpose and domain-specific applications across strategic European sectors. Finally, ELLIOT devotes attention to the policy, legal, ethical, and societal dimensions of AI development, ensuring a responsible, human-centric approach throughout.

The upcoming meeting in Modena will represent a pivotal moment for the consortium to review progress, align technical milestones, and strengthen collaborations toward the project’s ambitious goals.