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BRUSK presents 'Refik Anadol. Latent City' a groundbreaking exhibition by the internationally renowned new media artist Refik Anadol. The installation was created with artificial intelligence and uses historical and real-time data from Bruges as the basis for an immersive total experience.

Npuls has launched the AI in de Onderwijspraktijk training course with eduGenAI. A total of 150 people from 49 post-secondary institutions are taking part, with a focus on the pedagogically and didactically responsible use of generative AI. Afterwards, the course materials will be refined and published so that other institutions can use them too.

Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed has announced a study day organised by the meemoo-collegegroep Erfgoed en AI on the opportunities and limits of artificial intelligence for heritage organisations. Projects including MODA, CHAI-T, Glashelder and Cartoons in Context will frame case studies, debates and demonstrations about generative AI, digital collections and knowledge sharing across the sector.

From May, Npuls will make the eduGenAI pilot environment more widely available to post-secondary education. The SURF and Npuls project lets institutions experiment with generative AI in a controlled setting so that students, teachers and support staff can gain experience safely and responsibly.

The Rijksmuseum is launching a campaign in which the whole of the Netherlands becomes a digital studio: visitors can select a work of art, edit it with AI and share the result. The project shows how artificial intelligence can bring classic masterpieces to life in a new way.

AI researcher Eric Piette of UCLouvain used artificial intelligence to identify a mysterious stone from the Thermenmuseum in Heerlen as a Roman blockade-style game dating from AD 200–400. Thousands of AI simulations also helped reconstruct its likely rules.

The Discovery Museum in Kerkrade presents a large-scale interactive AI exhibition (until October 25, 2026). Visitors discover applications such as an AI VJ/DJ experience, race against a robot arm and meet humanoid robot Ami. The exhibition also addresses critical questions about privacy and employment.

The DAF Museum in Eindhoven has extended the exhibition on the role of artificial intelligence in vehicle design until September 30, 2026. The exhibition includes illustrations by Charles Burki from the 1950s and 1960s that have been converted into moving images with AI, and shows what classic DAF models would look like if they were redesigned today with AI.

The Faculty of Humanities at Universiteit Leiden organised a symposium on the role of generative AI in university education. Discussion focused on assessment robustness, unauthorised AI use and the balance between AI’s potential and educational integrity. Vice-Dean Jeroen Touwen argued for experimental research instead of restrictive policies and stressed the need for a shared institutional vision.

International team of scientists, including from TU/e, has developed a revolutionary method (Sparse Evolutionary Training) that accelerates AI algorithms quadratically, making AI available on cheap computers.

The Executive Board of the Universiteit Twente has adopted a statement on artificial intelligence (AI). AI is not a temporary trend, but a fundamental technology that will have a lasting impact on the university and society.

Tom van Woensel is professor and 'AI in Education portfolio lead'. It is his job to direct a transformation that will ensure that AI is seamlessly woven into education at TU/e by 2030.

A showcase of the artists and studios taking part in the Nxt AI Residentie. Powered by Prosus., 13–14 September.

The Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA) recently launched an innovative AI project, which is now in the final preparation stages.

Charter on social media use of the Brussels GCs

Discovery Museum presents 'AI: the expo', an interactive exhibition on artificial intelligence that runs until October 25, 2026. Visitors can experience hands-on how AI works by creating AI art themselves, controlling virtual flights and playing games with a robotic arm. The expo also stimulates critical thinking about the impact of AI on privacy, employment and society.

Artist, programmer and engineer Kasper Jordaens’s Lost In Diffusion project seeks to better understand the role of algorithms and AI models in relation to a museum collection. AI has proved valuable in turning heritage data into accessible, interconnected and understandable information, yet its potential to generate meaningful new data remains largely untapped. Using a collection database containing metadata and images of the museum’s design objects, Jordaens retrained a diffusion model¹. The aim was both to help the machine understand the nuances of design and to create a model that could act as a co-agent alongside a designer, rethinking the relationship between people and machines in the design process.

What knowledge and skills do students need in these times of AI? How do you test that in a reliable way? Bram de Jong, language testing project manager at In'to, talks about the new test that measures AI literacy of students.

Students often use generative AI tools for written work. How can you guide them towards responsible use?

AI offers great opportunities for SMEs, such as time savings and process automation. Despite negative reports, AI can help companies make better use of their data. Radboud Universiteit supports entrepreneurs in this.

The Mathematics of Imaging & AI (MIA) research group at the Universiteit Twente is conducting research into the use of AI in medical imaging and image analysis, and into the possibility of extracting more information from existing data than is currently possible. Developments in this area must be applicable in healthcare, says Associate Professor Dr. Jelmer Wolterink. The fact that he himself knows both worlds is an important factor.

Microscopes allow scientists to film cell movements. This project is working on developing AI to improve the analysis of videos of cell movements.

You ask ChatGPT to rewrite some text, ask Spotify for a new playlist or have Midjourney generate an image for your presentation. Very convenient: in seconds, you have exactly what you need. Yet behind these seemingly simple actions, enormous data centres somewhere in the world are running at full capacity. Artificial intelligence (AI) consumes a great deal of energy. How much, exactly—and could it be used more efficiently? Researchers at Universiteit Twente believe it could.

Critical AI literacy is crucial as AI applications rapidly spread throughout society. This project teaches students, education professionals and the public how uncritical AI adoption causes harm and what steps can limit it.