TRUSTING project—a five-year European research initiative (2023–2028) working to develop a user-friendly, trustworthy speech-based clinical decision support system to predict relapse in individuals with psychosis – has held its 2025 Annual Meeting from 17–18 June at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, convening project partners from across Europe.
Hosted by UPF, as project partner, the event provided an opportunity to review progress, align strategies, mitigate potential risks and reinforce shared goals.
Over the two-day programme, partners presented updates on core areas of work:
- Develop speech-based prediction model (WP1 – led by Dr. Janna de Boer, presented by Silvia Ciampelli) is creating and refining algorithms to identify early signs of relapse based on subtle changes in speech and language.
- Validate and improve model across languages (WP2 – led by Prof. Wolfram Hinzen) ensures relapse prediction models work reliably across languages and tasks.
- Development of a trustworthy AI monitoring system (WP3 – led by Prof. Brita Elvevåg, presented by Dr. Sandra Just) focuses on buiding the speech-based monitoring system.
- Health economics (WP5 – presented by Dr. Balázs Babarczy) will assess the system’s cost-effectiveness.
- Communication and stakeholder engagement (WP6 – led by Cecilia Angulo) ensures that the project’s insights reach healthcare professionals, people with lived experience, and the wider public.
The meeting began with a dedicated WP3-led testing session and an in-depth review of the upcoming study, which will evaluate the AI tool’s ability to predict relapse in real-world conditions (WP4). This was followed by the General Assembly meeting and concluded with an inspirational keynote lecture by Prof. Franziska Knoll, sparking valuable cross-disciplinary reflection.
Day two featured workpackage-specific presentations and updates, showing the latest results from the different work packages. Furthermore, targeted discussions and inter-workpackage coordination sessions, allowing teams to streamline collaboration and fine-tune planning for the year ahead.
The TRUSTING consortium remains united by a shared mission: to make health care for psychosis more proactive, personalised, and accessible by leveraging speech, language and AI in ethically responsible ways.
Stay tuned for updates as the project enters its next phase — including the kick-off of the much-anticipated WP4 study in 2025.
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