Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental SystemsWork Packages
INDIGO brings together legal experts on EU law and policy with leading experts in IT and artificial intelligence (AI) to work on a coherent legal framework for the specific needs of the digitalised implementation of EU public policies.
The project will tackle systemic, non-policy sector-specific issues from the ongoing information technology revolution with experts having intimate understanding of the conditions of implementation of EU policies in a highly integrated multi-level, multi-jurisdictional and multi-lingual system.
The INDIGO project will undertake the work so outlined with ten work packages (WP) under the single or joint responsibility of the project partners.
Lead: 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
These WP include the overall coordination of the consortium, the strategic, administrative and financial management as well as the implementation of the dissemination strategy.
Lead: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
This WP aims at mapping the profound changes to decision-making processes in Europe incurred by automation and the use of artificial intelligence.
WP3, 4, 5 and 6 are designed to ensure an understanding of the realities, possibilities and challenges of automated decision-making systems in the implementation of the EU law and policy through in-depth case studies. The topics are chosen based on their relevance towards the reality of regulation in Europe’s single market, the nature of their policies and the advanced state of the automated decision-making systems.
WP3 – Case study: Digitalised governance of the single-market – goods and (non-financial) services (Lead: 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Freiburg, Germany)
WP4 – Case study: Regulatory technology in Digital Reporting to Financial Regulators (Lead: 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
WP5 – Case study: Automated decision-making in the EU border control context (Lead: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
WP6 – Case study: Influencing decision-making by targeting political advertising (Lead: Erik Castren Institute, 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Helsinki, Finland)
Lead: 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
This WP will discuss technological challenges induced by the integration of procedural requirements arising from legal requirements into technological solutions.
Lead: 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
The results of WP2-6 as well as an understanding of technological-human interaction in decision-making will be used in WP8 to draw conclusions on how automated decision-making systems influence general procedural principles underpinning EU public law.
Leads: 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Freiburg (Germany)
This WP aims at developing policy proposals on the basis of the policy cycle-adapted analysis of automated decision-making systems in the context of a composite, multi-level and multi-jurisdictional implementation of EU public law and policies.
Governance
The INDIGO project is coordinated by the 8xav¸£Àûµ¼º½ of Luxembourg. Professors of both the Department of Law and the Department of Computer Sciences are involved as co-PIs, with Prof. Dr. Herwig C.H. Hofmann as the Project Leader.
Professor Hofmann has conducted numerous projects and is the author and co-author of books in the field of EU public law, and EU economic and regulatory law and in the area of fundamental rights with a predominant focus on information rights and procedural rights.
In matters of legislation, Prof. Hofmann has been active advising national governments (inter alia the French Prime Minister’s legislative service on the 2015 ‘Code des relations entre le public et les administrations’). He was also commissioned to support the European Parliament’s drafting of the first ever fully formulated own legislative proposal (the 2016 proposal for a Regulation ‘on the Administrative Procedure of the European Union’s institutions, bodies, offices and agencies’). Prof. Hofmann has also advised the Luxembourg government and the EP on various questions related to ‘Brexit’.