TERAIS (Towards Excellent Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at a Slovak university) is an international project aimed at establishing the Department of Applied Informatics of Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia as a workplace of international academic excellence. Funded by the Horizon Europe programme under the Twinning call, TERAIS brings together experts from the University of Hamburg in Germany and the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa to collaborate with scientists at DAI.