PANORAIMA's first project review
The consortium behind the Human-Centred AI master's programme presented its progress to the European Commission at HU Utrecht. A Teams window on the front screen read First Project Review Meeting and counted sixteen more people dialled in.
On 3 July 2026 the PANORAIMA consortium met in a room at Utrecht Science Park, lent by HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. Place cards printed with the HU mark ran down the tables, each one a first name and a partner tag: Unina, KPI, HU. A review is a different meeting from a Worksprint. The consortium reports what it has built and the Commission's appointed reviewers ask whether the plan and the work still match. One reviewer took part from the screen at the front of the room.
The deck opened without ceremony. Contents: project aims, mission, vision, goals; project management; project status. The substance came a few slides in. PANORAIMA has designed 434 learning events and will build them in phases. Core events for each track go first, because the pilots and pre-pilots depend on them. Events needed early, or wanted by more than three universities, follow. Anything that stops fitting during development gets adapted or deleted. In June 2027 every learning event is revised against pilot results, market engagement and other feedback, then checked for quality and consistency and published on SURF.
One slide looked past the project itself. RAISE-U, Responsible AI for Society in Europe, was drawn as a community beyond the PANORAIMA borders: universities, but also companies and research centres, there to keep the programme current, run joint research and back student projects. The map pinned Hamburg UAS, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Technical University Dublin, Hogeschool Utrecht, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the University of Naples Federico II, the University of West Attica and Sofia University.
A printed PANORAIMA Manifesto stood against the back wall through the whole day, five pillars set in green: human-centered AI designed by, for, and with people; AI for all, leaving no one behind; responsible AI with ethics built in; universal values as the compass; applied AI, from research to real world application. The EU flag and the words Co-funded by the European Union sit at its foot. The consortium had eaten together in Utrecht the evening before. Real AI Ltd is one of the partners and Tarry Singh a co-developer of the programme, which puts the lab on the side of the table under review.
