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DIGITAL EUROPE – Cloud, data and artificial intelligence – 2024

Digital Europe Programme - Digital Europe programme aims at briding the gap between digital technology research and market deployment.

2024-09-26
20 million euro
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Call synthesis

Call reference DIGITAL-2024-AI-B-06
Programme Digital Europe
Institution European Commission
Sectors Business & Industry Culture, Media & Communication Research & Innovation Technology & Digital
Beneficiaries Large company (> 250 employees) Media & cultural organisation Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees) State administration & affiliated entities

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Call reference

DIGITAL-2024-AI-B-06



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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

  • To preserve the linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe while effectively implementing the European Common Data Infrastructure and Service MCP’s objectives in the area of language technologies. By providing the necessary data and model adaptation capacities, the action will have a strong impact on the deployment of large language foundation models and their applications such as generative AI
  • To support the language data collection and the adaptation of existing large language foundation models to specific languages, domains or industries, so as to support the onboarding of the latest language technologies by European actors

Eligibility

  • Be a legal person
  • Be a public or private entity
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
    • non-EU countries: EEA countries (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) and other countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (Click here)
  • A consortium composed of at least 3 entities, established in at least 3 different eligible countries must be constituted
  • Entities must not be directly or indirectly controlled from a country that is not an eligible country unless they comply with the requirements to guarantee the protection of the essential security interests of the Union and the Member States and to ensure the protection of classified documents information as set out in the relevant work programme

Additional information

  • Initial duration of the action: between 24 and 36 months

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 20 million euro
  • Amount of the grant: 20 million euro
  • Funding rate: up to 50% of the total eligible costs