2nd HARNESS Training Workshop
Building Interdisciplinary Excellence in AI, Law and Ethics
Following the 1st Training Workshop, the 2nd Training Workshop is designed to build an interdisciplinary team by providing foundational training in the areas of ethics, law, and knowledge engineering. This year the central theme is "Building Public AI in Europe: From Data Commons to Compliance"
Location:Villa Créative, Avignon Université, France
Dates: June 1-5, 2026
Accommodation: Not included. You need to book your own accommodation.
Villa Créative, Avignon Université
Workshop Agenda
Monday, June 1st – EPILDAI Doctoral Colloquium
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09:00-09:30 Registration and Welcome
- Responsible AI in Defence: Legal and Strategical Consequences of a (dis)United Approach to Military AI in the EU.
- Governing the Hidden Code: Balancing Secrecy and Transparency for Public AI.
- Turning Regulation into Reasoning Through a Semantic Web-Based Impact Assessment Tool.
- Toward a European Cybersecurity Data Commons: Anonymisation Techniques for Cross-Border Incident Sharing.
- Traceability of Training Data in Open Language Models: Legal Implications for Rights and Intellectual Property.
- AI infrastructure and EU strategic partnerships: reshaping global supply chains. 11:30-12:00 ☕ Coffee Break
- Rethinking the Sustainability of Data Centres in the EU.
- Judicial Content Moderation as a Constitutional Problem: Brazilian Courts and Digital Constitutionalism.
- Explainability of Automated Administrative Decisions: Bridging Law in Action and Technical Approaches.
- Data Governance in EU Smart Mobility: Competing Visions of Access, Privacy, and Cybersecurity in Connected Vehicles.
- Digital Twins and Environmental Law. 13:30-15:00 🍽️ Lunch
- Territorial Differentiation in the DSA Transparency Database: a case study of TikTok's Moderation Decisions. 16:30-17:00 Exhibition guided tour
- INFODROIT – Computer Science x Law: Recent Research at Université Paris-Est Créteil. 17:00-18:00 Free time to visit the exhibition
09:30-11:30 EPILDAI Doctoral Colloquium (Part I)
12:00-13:30 EPILDAI Doctoral Colloquium (Part II)
15:00-15:30 EMILDAI meets HARNESS 15:30-16:30 EMILDAI-UPEC Research Partnership
Tuesday, June 2nd – Teaching day 1
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09:00-12:30 Ethics and Futures Studies Workshop
- Defining the object of study: what is Public AI?
- Simplifying compliance with the EU AI Act using Semantic Web technologies.
- Sociological aspects of Building a Public AI for Europe. 16:15-16:45 ☕ Coffee Break
- Akoma Ntoso: Enabling AI and Interoperability in Public Administration with Open Legal Standards.
- Building Hybrid Public AI in the Health Sector.
- Legal Practice Design: what design-theory has to offer for AI-applications in the judiciary.
- Public Sector AI in Real Life: Analysing Ille-et-Villaine's Register of Algorithmic Processing. 18:30-19:30 Balancing Competing Interests in Public AI: A Multi-stakeholder Roundtable 19:30-23:00 Reception at Jardins de la Villa Créative
14:30-15:00 Institutional welcome – Auditorium Villa Créative 15:00-16:15 Panel 1 – Harnessing and Steering Public AI: Foundational Aspects
16:45-18:15 Panel 2 – Governing & Implementing Public AI: Institutional Aspects
Wednesday, June 3rd – Teaching day 2. HARNESS Mid-term review meeting I.
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10:00-11:30 Panel 3 – Framing & Certifying Public AI: Regulatory aspects
- Certifying Algorithmic Supervision: Architecture of Compliance for Public AI in the EU.
- AI Sovereignty: Lessons from the Global Majority.
- AI charters in the public sector. 11:30-12:00 ☕ Coffee Break
- Techno-Legal Perspectives for Managing Sustainable Relationships for Trusted Data Exchange.
- Embedding Explainability in Public AI.
- The subtle danger of "accurate" AI.
- Interoperability as Infrastructure for AI in the Public Interest. 13:30-15:00 🍽️ Lunch
12:00-13:30 Panel 4 – Building & Developing Public AI: Technical Aspects
15:00-16:30 HARNESS Project Management Team Meeting
Thursday, June 4th – HARNESS Mid-term review meeting II.
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09:30-13:00 HARNESS Mid-term Review II
14:00-15:00 External Advisory Board – Part 1 15:00-16:30 HARNESS discussion on the objectives and WPs status
17:00-18:30 HARNESS discussion on the objectives and WPs status
Friday, June 5th – Deliverable edition
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09:00-12:00 Deliverables preparation (split in 3 groups)
- WP1 – Venue: Grand Salon
- WP2 – Venue: Galerie 3
- WP3 – Venue: Auditorium 12:00-14:00 🧺 Picnic
Quick Information
Duration:5 days
Language: English
Accommodation: Not included. You must make the reservation in Avignon. The colleagues in Avignon recommended ApartHotel Sainte-Marthe
Transport: The closest airport to Avignon is Marseille; from the airport there is a 5min shuttle bus leaving you at the Vitrolles-Aéroport-Marseille-Provence station where you can take a regional train (TER) to the centre of Avignon (approx 1h).
Avignon (France)
Venue & Travel Information
Auditorium, Villa Créative
33 bis Rue Louis Pasteur, 84000 AvignonAuditorium X (2E07)/Amphitéâtre Y (AT05), Campus Hannah Arendt, 74 rue Louis Pasteur, 84029 Avignon
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