Collaboration

NAVER LABS Europe is a hub of NAVER’s network of centres of excellence in Korea, Japan, Vietnam, USA & Europe. By collaborating with different partners we aim to make AI technology more competitive around the globe.

We have a strong R&D network built on excellence, common research interests and human relations that we’ve developing since the early 90’s. Since we joined NAVER in 2017, we became founding partners of several national AI institutes and considerably enriched the number of strategic academic partners and collaborations with leading edge organisations in the field of AI for Robotics.

  • AI Institutes: ​NAVER LABS Europe is a founding member of two of France’s four 3IA institutes (artificial intelligence interdisciplinary institutes).
  • Academic Partners: We collaborate with leading edge organisations and have a longstanding PhD program.
  • Entrepreneurs and Startups: NAVER not only invests directly in the growth of tech startups, it also offers exclusive workspaces with product and service development.
  • EU and Government Projects: EU and French Government projects and programmes underpin substantial scientific advances and innovation. We are a committed research partner in this community.

AI Institutes

The two 3AI institutes where NAVER LABS Europe plays a role is MIAI in Grenoble and PRAIRIE, based in Paris. We are the only industrial partner in the 3IA institutes to lead a research chair. All other chairs are led by a public research institute.

​NAVER LABS Europe is a founding member of two of France’s four 3IA institutes (artificial intelligence interdisciplinary institutes) launched by the French government in 2018 as part of the national strategy for AI. The fundamental purpose of each of these institutes is to develop a comprehensive national programme for AI to develop and boost the research ecosystem, attract and support students and researchers in the field, improve France’s computing power and bolster European and international cooperation in AI.

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MIAI – Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence

The focus of MIAI in Grenoble is AI for health, the environment and energy.

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PaRis AI Research InstitutE

PRAIRIE based in Paris has a focus on AI for health, transport and the environment. As part of PRAIRIE, based in Paris, NAVER LABS Europe and INRIA co-organise the AI summer school ‘PAISS‘,

​​NAVER LABS Europe also co-finances with the ANR (French national research agency) and INSA Lyon, the AI Chair called ‘REMEMBER: Learning Reasoning, Memory and Behaviour’ led by Christian Wolf which researches the relations between automated learning, optimal control and robotics.

EU & Government Projects

Another axe of collaboration includes partnering with private and public institutions in EU and French government projects such as the EU Future Emerging Technology project ‘Time Machine‘, the privacy project ‘SMOOTH‘ or the UTTER project using LLMs for eXtended reality (XR). We have over 30 years of experience in proposing and executing such projects and have successfully collaborated on dozens of projects across a number of domains.

Unified Transcription and Translation for Extended Reality

The aim of UTTER is to leverage large language models to build the next generation of multimodal eXtended reality (XR) technologies for transcription, translation, summarisation, and minuting. We will make these technologies scalable, adaptable, contextualised, robust, explainable, and emotion-aware.

HORIZON.2.4 – Digital, Industry and Space 

CORDIS

Diké  Collaborative project
Research project about identifying and mitigating bias, fairness and ethics issues when compressing NLP models. Funded by ANR (AAPG 2021, 2022–2025)

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Entrepreneurs and Startups

NAVER is committed to making the market more diverse and helps stimulate the growth of new technologies and services. NAVER not only invests directly in the growth of tech startups, it also offers exclusive workspaces with product and service development.

Space Green_Station F

Space Green, Naver’s startup incubating facility at Station F.

NAVER is committed to making the market more diverse and helps stimulate the growth of new technologies and services. NAVER not only invests directly in the growth of tech startups, it also offers exclusive workspaces with product and service development.

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Korelya Capital is a VC firm that supports European tech start-ups in their growth in Asia.

To boost the potential of European startups, in particular in artificial intelligence, and to help put these young business in contact with the Asian market NAVER has invested €200M in Korelya Capital. Companies they have invested in include Bitfury, Memrise and Ledger…

Academic Partners

Below is the list of current partners with whom we have research collaborations in place.

Trento University
University of Trento
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University of Sussex
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Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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ELLIS Unit Prague, Czech Technical University
INRIA
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA )
University of Prague
Technical University of Prague
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Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Barcelona
Passau University
Passau University
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Nazerbayev University
Seoul National University
Seoul National University
University Grenoble Alpes
University Grenoble Alpes
University of Oxford
University of Oxford
University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh

NAVER LABS Europe and the NAVER Global AI R&D belt.

30 seconds of our research in France and the NAVER Global AI R&D network [English version of Korean original].

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