The Horizon Europe programme is offering funding for research to develop new larger AI models or retrain existing ones to incorporate more data types to improve their performance and output, both at the top level and for downstream tasks.

Research projects should drive European scientific progress and innovation in key large AI areas. The research should focus on methodologies for enhancing the representation, alignment and interaction among the different data modalities.

Activities are expected to start at TRL 2-3 and achieve TRL 4-5 by the end of the project.

Expected Outcomes

Projects are expected to contribute to one or more of the following outcomes:

• Enhanced applicability of large AI systems to new domains through the integration of innovative data modalities
• Improvement of current multimodal large AI systems capabilities and expansion of the number of data modalities jointly handed by one AI system

Eligibility Criteria

Entities legally established in:

• EU Member States, its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe associated countries
• OECD and Mercosur countries
• Countries with which the EU cooperates under a Trade and Technology Council
• Countries with which the EU has a Digital Partnership

Funding

• €25,000,000 per project

Please follow this link for more information on the scope of the call and the procedural requirements for the applications.

The deadline for application is 18 September 2024, 17:00 CEST (Brussels time).

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