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EU funding (€4,711,376): Embodied Multimodal Human Communication and Modelling Hor 4 Jul 2026 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Embodied Multimodal Human Communication and Modelling
The EMHCAM Doctoral Network will train 15 doctoral candidates to advance European research in Embodied Multimodal Human Communication And Modelling. Despite rapid progress in language and vision AI, current systems lack grounding in the embodied and context-dependent nature of human communication. This limits progress in key application domains such as socially interactive agents, accessibility technologies and health-related human–machine interaction. EMHCAM addresses this gap by integrating three research communities — gesture and cognitive interaction studies, multimodal corpus development and multimodal data science — into a single, coherent doctoral training network. The network tackles three interconnected scientific challenges: 1) developing new theoretical accounts of how speech and gesture jointly structure communication across languages, speaker profiles and interaction settings; 2) creating the next generation of embodied multimodal corpora, linking audio–visual and motion-captured data with shared annotation conventions and making them available through ethical data-sharing methods; 3) designing computational models that analyse and generate multimodal behaviour, including LLM-based generation pipelines and context-aware behavioural modelling. The resulting resources — open multimodal datasets, validated annotation schemes, evaluation benchmarks and ethically robust modelling pipelines — will have concrete impact across academia and industry. Application areas include intelligent hearing aid design, socially interactive agents for mental healthcare and multimodal learning technologies. By combining advanced technical training, strong industry participation and an interdisciplinary, cross-European research environment, EMHCAM will produce a new generation of researchers equipped to shape human-centred, trustworthy and inclusive multimodal technologies in line with European strategic priorities.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Aryza Ireland Ltd. | ? |
| Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt AM Main | €290,272 |
| Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | €577,080 |
| Kobenhavns Universitet | €671,780 |
| Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan | €324,630 |
| Linneuniversitetet | €324,630 |
| Sorbonne Universite | €629,338 |
| The Provost, Fellows Foundation Scholars & the Other Members of Board, of the College of the Holy & Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth Near Dublin | €682,174 |
| Universidad Pompeu Fabra | €282,188 |
| Universitaet Bielefeld | €580,545 |
| University College London | €348,738 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101310000
The filing refers to a past date, and does not necessarily reflect the current state. The latest known state is available on the following page: Aryza Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland.