SCIANCE (HORIZON-CL4-2025-01-CSA-01293570) is a European coordination initiative establishing the foundations for the Resource for AI Science in Europe (RAISE). The project promotes interdisciplinary collaboration to integrate AI into scientific research by enabling streamlined access to trustworthy data repositories, computing resources, and research infrastructures across Europe.
Bringing together leading research infrastructures, scientific organisations, and AI centres of excellence, SCIANCE develops a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) through an iterative co-creation process. Building on a comprehensive AI-in-science landscape analysis, the SRIA identifies long-term research challenges where AI can accelerate discovery and defines cross-domain AI research and innovation priorities, focusing on open, trustworthy, and frugal AI methods for science. A roadmap for infrastructure upgrades and cooperation mechanisms supports its implementation, translating scientific research and innovation priorities into coordinated action.
To consolidate the European AI-in-science ecosystem, SCIANCE pilots the RAISE Secretariat, supported by the RAISE Digital Hub, community-building events at annual AIS Summits, and the RAISE Academy, providing a continuous framework for engagement, capacity building, knowledge sharing, and cross-domain collaborations. By combining scientific domain expertise with AI research and infrastructure knowledge, SCIANCE delivers robust, evidence-based guidance that is scientifically credible and strategically aligned with European Commission objectives, laying the foundations for future collaborative, AI-enabled science in Europe.