Registration is open until 11:59 p.m. on February 23, 2025 for the “AI – Innovation Challenge” initiative, organized by FAU University in Nuremberg, partner of the EELISA network.

The program is aimed at university students enrolled in a Bachelor’s Degree program, who are called upon to propose innovative solutions to four identified challenges in order to compete for the total prize pool of 10,000 Euros. Each challenge will reward the top three winners with 1500/700/300 Euros respectively. It is possible to participate in one challenge, multiple challenges or all four, and projects will be evaluated on the degree of innovation and problem solving by a jury composed of renowned FAU professors and experts.

Identification of the challenges:

• Kalah Game Agent Challenge: Kalah is one of the oldest games of mankind, but remains far from trivial for artificial agents. Show your Game-AI development skills and innovation prowess by building a Kalah agent that can beat all others. Let it play with other agents for practice, and then enter the final competition.
• Font Group Recognition Challenge: This competition investigates the performance of recognizing different fonts (actually font groups) in text lines of historical prints (15th and 16th century). Participants have to submit the most likely font group for lines of font groups.
• Cybersecurity Challenge: This challenge reflects FAU’s commitment to advancing cybersecurity and privacy – a vital field in today’s interconnected world. Put your cybersecurity skills to the test on the topics forensic, binary exploitation, reverse engineering and web exploitation.
• ChromoPredict Challenge: Discover the science of color in the ChromoPredict Challenge! Use the names of dye molecules to predict their color class. But there is more to it than meets the eye — each color is rooted in molecular structure.

More details regarding the criteria for participation and the form to apply can be found on the following page.