Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed optimism astir Greece’s AI maturation imaginable during a gathering successful Athens with the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Iliana Ivanova, connected Monday.
Mitsotakis announced that the government’s Artificial Intelligence strategy is nearing completion and volition beryllium presented successful the coming weeks. The authorities has besides formed a caller squad dedicated to probe and innovation, helium added.
“We purpose to presumption Greece wrong the emerging AI ecosystem, wherever we person invaluable contributions to make,” said Mitsotakis. His remarks were welcomed by Commissioner Ivanova, who emphasized that competitiveness is simply a apical EU priority.
The Prime Minister highlighted the government’s efforts successful integer transformation, peculiarly the modernization of the gov.gr interface. He noted that investments successful integer infrastructure person fostered a vibrant tech start-up ecosystem and adjacent helped reverse immoderate encephalon drain.
“We person worked precise hard successful the past 5 years to span this innovation spread that we inherited successful 2019. I judge that we person taken important steps successful the close direction, specified arsenic integer translation successful presumption of the interface betwixt the authorities and citizens and businesses.”
The Commissioner, who besides met connected Monday with investors and Greek companies that person antecedently participated successful programs of the European Innovation Council, encouraged Greek entrepreneurs and researchers to instrumentality an progressive portion successful the programs disposable from the European Union, specified arsenic the Trusted Investor Network and the European Innovation Council Scaling Club.
“This is the crushed for their existence,” she said. “To truly cultivate and promote this entrepreneurial innovative tone which we privation to support and stay successful Europe.”