AI Awards Italy
Fondazione ENIA’s award for the projects and people who help artificial intelligence grow in quality, responsibility and usefulness to society. It is presented every year at the National Congress.
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Five criteria, ten categories
A Jury assesses entries in the ten major categories of the future, from Intelligence that Invents to Applied Intelligence.
Intelligence that Invents
Scientific and technological excellenceIntelligence for the Common Good
AI for inclusion, education and social impactIntelligence that Heals the Planet
AI for sustainability, the climate and regeneration of local areasFair Intelligence
Ethics, transparency and rights in AIProtective Intelligence
Security, cyber and risk governanceConnected Intelligence
Interoperability and user experienceEmerging Intelligence
Start-ups, young companies and disruptive visionsReturning Intelligence
Global minds for Italy’s rebirthLifelong Intelligence
Applied Intelligence
AI for healthcare, mobility and strategic services2026 Special Prizes
For turning an educational vision into a concrete commitment to training teachers, who are central to the future of artificial intelligence.
Training a teacher means multiplying the future of entire generations.
For guiding, through legal review and strategic direction, the transformation from association to foundation, strengthening its credibility and institutional solidity.
From an association to a credible, structured and authoritative foundation.
For putting their European legal expertise at the service of knowledge on regulatory sandboxes for artificial intelligence, making a decisive contribution to a pioneering work.
Turning the complexity of regulation into accessible knowledge.
For combining human sensitivity, legal expertise and social responsibility, making Oltre la Luce ETS a place of listening, protection and support for neurodivergent children and their families.
The value of a society is measured by its ability to protect the most vulnerable.
For combining the rigour of the jurist and the sensitivity of the writer in an original reflection on human beings in the age of artificial intelligence, promoting ethics and responsibility in the use of technology.
Law safeguards principles; literature explores possibilities.
Intelligence that Invents
Scientific and technological excellenceMathematics, physics and machine learning for fluid dynamics simulation.
Legal rigour and humanistic vision in ENIA’s AI Literary Salon.
Intelligence for the Common Good
AI for inclusion, education and social impactA bridge between those who communicate in sign language and the world around them.
Play as a platform for active and informed digital citizenship.
Intelligence that Heals the Planet
AI for sustainability, the climate and regeneration of local areasArtificial intelligence for safeguarding water resources.
An expert system to integrate the AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001 into organisations.
Fair Intelligence
Ethics, transparency and rights in AIAdvanced cryptography serving fairness and data protection.
For public commitment to defending cognitive freedom.
Protective Intelligence
Security, cyber and risk governancePredictive AI to spot weak signals and prevent business crises.
Architectures of trust and oversight in critical infrastructure.
Connected Intelligence
Interoperability and user experienceAccessible and verifiable digital information, against disinformation.
AI, teaching and inclusion in an open educational ecosystem.
Emerging Intelligence
Start-ups, young companies and disruptive visionsIntelligent data analysis for retail and logistics.
Natural language in communication between machines and operators.
Returning Intelligence
Global minds for Italy’s rebirthArtificial intelligence serving the life sciences.
Property regulatory compliance rethought with AI.
Lifelong Intelligence
Outreach and critical reflection on the role of algorithms in society.
A humanistic approach that gives meaning back to technology.
Applied Intelligence
AI for healthcare, mobility and strategic servicesData, ethics and AI to value people in the company.
Accessible, continuous learning in operational settings.
What they say about the Awards
Articles about the award-winning projects and the people who built them.
Enter your project
Businesses, universities, organisations and professionals can enter artificial intelligence projects and systems for the next edition.