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Submit your idea for an AI providing benefits for the common good and win up to €20.000. We’re extending the submission deadline for the second round of our idea contest. Project drafts can still be submitted directly via our website until 07 October 2021.

Do you have an idea for utilising AI for the common good – or perhaps you already have a team together, with an idea that is just waiting to be developed further? Then submit your idea now for the second round of the competition directly on the platform.

Do you have an idea for how artificial intelligence can be used to provide benefits for the common good? Then the Civic Innovation Platform is the place for you: take part in the new round of the idea contest and win a financial award of up to 20,000 euros!

Connecting infrastructures, initiatives and communities in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in such a way that they create a strong ecosystem to benefit the common good: As partners of re:publica 21, we, BMAS, BMU and BMFSFJ would like to discuss the conditions and resources of a living AI ecosystem.

On 10 March 2021, Federal Minister Hubertus Heil honoured the 25 most impressive ideas at the virtual award ceremony for the first round of the ‘AI is what we make it’ idea contest. The innovativeness and diversity of the ideas made an impression in particular, as did the teams’ aspiration of considering society’s needs at all times.