AI Literacy Under the AI Act: An Assessment of its Scope

  Tiago Sรฉrgio Cabral*** PhD Candidate at the
University of Minho | Researcher at JusGov | Project Expert for the Portuguese
team in the “European Network on Digitalization and E-governance”
(ENDE). Authorโ€™s opinions are his own.Photo credit:…

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Article 43 of the EU Data Act from a Research Perspective

     

Author: Maryna Manteghi,
PhD researcher, University of Turku, Finland.

 

Photo credit: rjcastillo,
via Wikimedia
commons

 

Introduction

 

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Catherine
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