ALT-EDIC at TrustLLM Consortium Annual Meeting: Building trust in European LLMs

Reykjavík, Iceland, 11-13 June 2025. The ALT-EDIC team attended the TrustLLM Second Annual Consortium Meeting in Reykjavík, where Director Edouard Geoffrois spoke at the public session focused on the future of large language models in Europe. His talk outlined how ALT-EDIC can contribute to trustworthy multilingual AI through data quality, transparent evaluation and governance aligned with European law.

The discussion in Reykjavík centred on practical routes to trust: rights-cleared datasets for European languages, credible benchmarking across low- and high-resource languages, and pathways from pilots to deployment in public services and industry. This mirrors ALT-EDIC’s mission to pool European resources so models work reliably for European users.

The conference offered a valuable opportunity for interaction between ALT-EDIC and the TrustLLM teams. ALT-EDIC team members Trine Platou (Project Manager) and Florine Astruc (Legal Expert) also participated in an interview with the TrustLLM team reflecting on lessons from ALT-EDIC’s early work and on how cross-project collaboration can accelerate trustworthy, multilingual LLMs.

“The TrustLLM partners seem very happy to work together,” Geoffrois observed. “Several said that after having worked nationally, TrustLLM enabled them to work across languages and countries, to exchange best practices. We could see European action in motion.” And, Geoffrois added, “the projects we coordinate are complementary to TrustLLM. There is much opportunity for further collaboration. This is exactly what the ALT-EDIC is about; making Europe stronger by developing language technologies together.”

Read the full interview on TrustLLM’s website, written by Mariel Svensson. For more information and updates on the TrustLLM project, visit their project site.

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Lithuania is represented in the ALT-EDIC consortium by the Ministry of Culture, a governmental institution responsible for formulating and implementing state cultural policies in the fields of professional and amateur arts, theatre, music, fine arts, cinema, museums, libraries, publishing, copyright and related rights, and the protection of cultural heritage and language.

In response to recent advances in generative AI, Lithuania is actively exploring the development of large language models (LLMs) and supporting the ecosystem for the Lithuanian language. The Ministry of Culture has initiated an information campaign to engage both public and private sector organisations in ALT-EDIC efforts. Several companies have already expressed their interest. Lithuania is also funding a number of projects through Recovery and Resilience Facility (Next Generation Lithuania), aimed at accumulating language resources for AI systems. It is anticipated that these projects will complement the goals of ALT-EDIC.

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