CEREBRA-AI launches to advance adaptive and explainable AI

A European programme for adaptive AI

THESSALONIKI, Greece, 11/09/2026 — CEREBRA-AI has launched a four-year European research programme to develop artificial intelligence that can learn continuously, explain its decisions and adapt to changing tasks and environments. Coordinated by Neuralio AI in Greece, the project brings together a consortium spanning 14 countries, with €14,997,790 in funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme.

Learning, reasoning and interaction

CEREBRA-AI will develop a common framework that combines learning from data with reasoning based on explicit knowledge and rules. An adaptive coordination system will select and combine specialist AI models for each task, while continual learning methods will help the system incorporate new knowledge while limiting the loss of previously acquired capabilities.

Connections to robots and digital twins, or virtual models of real-world systems, will let the framework learn from physical and simulated environments.

Nine planned pilots

The framework will be tested across healthcare, manufacturing, mobility, energy, agriculture, coastal forecasting, social care and knowledge work. Applications include assistants that retrieve traceable information from manufacturing manuals and hospital procedures, tools for exploring urban mobility and energy scenarios, and digital twins that support agricultural planning under changing climate conditions.

The pilots will assess performance, resource efficiency and the quality of explanations in their respective settings.

Oversight and open research

Human oversight, privacy and fairness will be addressed throughout development and evaluation. CEREBRA-AI will build methods for tracing the sources behind outputs, assessing uncertainty and checking system behaviour.

The consortium will share open research assets, publications and training materials, including through Europe’s AI-on-Demand platform, to help researchers and organisations reuse the results.

About CEREBRA-AI

CEREBRA-AI — A unified framework for continual, explainable and embodied General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence — is a Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action coordinated by NEURALIO AI IKE. The project runs from 01/09/2026 to 31/08/2030 under Grant Agreement No 101299046.