Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Digital Europe Programme is the first EU programme that aims to accelerate the recovery and drive the digital transformation of Europe.
Worth €7.6 billion (in current prices), the Programme is a part of the next long-term EU budget, (the Multiannual Financial Framework), and it covers 2021 to 2027. It will provide funding for projects in five crucial areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring the wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society.
The Programme is fine-tuned to fill the gap between the research of digital technologies and their deployment, and to bring the results of research to the market – for the benefit of Europe’s citizens and businesses, and in particular SMEs. Investments under the Digital Europe programme supports the Union’s twin objectives of a green transition and digital transformation and strengthens the Union’s resilience and strategic autonomy.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The present action will establish an operational AI Support center (AISC) to provide services for AI communities, enabling AI users and developers to benefit from recent investments in a federated European supercomputing infrastructure and ecosystem. The central objective of the action is the transfer of advanced HPC-AI knowledge to the European AI user and developer communities.
Detailed Call Description
The AISC will train and enable European AI communities to benefit from the use of advanced HPC capabilities for large-scale AI models. It will enable users and developers to scale up AI workflows using state of the art supercomputing resources, resulting in the development of complex models with significant impact in Europe such as foundation models for generative AI.
As a European contact point and knowledge hub for large-scale AI technology, the AISC will link with and contribute to other initiatives by providing content for training, education and technical assistance in collaboration with the EuroHPC Academy and Application Support Teams.
The action will operate an AISC to assist European AI user communities to fully leverage the innovation potential of large-scale AI models utilizing supercomputing infrastructures.
The AISC will address scientific, societal and industrial applications and user communities that run world leading AI based codes or ensembles, providing a series of services in order to support their transition to HPC environments and exploit the current and future EuroHPC supercomputing capabilities and federated environment, as well as increasing the HPC awareness and competence in the relevant communities. Proposals for AISC will proactively engage the AI user communities with HPC stakeholders and exploit existing federated resources around Europe, developing HPC related competences, widening the use and know-how of HPC in European AI communities.
Specific requirements for the activities (pages 7-8 of the call document).
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
50%
The project budget (maximum grant amount) is €5.000.000. Only one proposal will be funded.
The grant will be a budget-based mixed actual cost grant with unit cost and flat-rate elements. This means that it will reimburse ONLY certain types of costs (eligible costs) and costs that were actually incurred for your project (NOT the budgeted costs).
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Information Technology
- New Entrepreneurship
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Legal Entities
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted for DIGITAL-EUROHPC-JU-2023-AISC-03-01 by:
- a consortium of a minimum of 3 beneficiaries (not affiliated entities) and maximum of 10 partners from at least 3 different eligible countries
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Eleana Gabriel
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact: info@eurohpc-ju.europa.eu