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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