The European Commission – in particular the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety – has already taken up the call for a sovereign, human-centric, and competitive AI future in Europe.

 Emerging from the Horizon Europe NGI Enrichers project under the Next Generation Internet (NGI) domain,  and shaped during the Davos AI Horizon25 Conference of NGI Enrichers in June 2025, the Declaration on AI Research and Innovation has now been signed and further disseminated by numerous scientists, experts, policymakers, and citizens. The NGI Enrichers community, deeply engaged with questions of a human-centric and open internet, and other communities recognised early that artificial intelligence represents both a significant opportunity and a profound challenge for Europe’s digital future.

Read, sign, and share the document here: https://bethechange.international/l/declaration-from-davos/official-declaration-from-davos/

The Declaration sets out 20 key principles, including:

  • Putting European values at the core of AI innovation and research
  • Safeguarding freedom of research and ensuring open access to publicly funded results
  • Strengthening democratic and bottom-up research policymaking
  • Building pan-European AI infrastructure, including multilingual large language models for the public good
  • Enabling reproducible and collaborative research
  • Establishing a harmonized, pro-innovation regulatory framework
  • Ensuring self-sovereign identity and cross-border data portability
  • Supporting entrepreneurship to turn Europe’s bold ideas into global breakthroughs

Co-funded by the European Commission and the Swiss Confederation, the NGI Enrichers project and the Declaration calls for rapid, targeted investment, harmonized pro-innovation rules, and the development of pan-European AI infrastructure. Without their support, the collaborative effort involving numerous organisations would not have been possible.