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EU AI Innovation Accelerator preparatory action

European Comission

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29 February 2024
29 May 2024
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For profit
Not for profit (incl. NGOs)
Public sector
R&D and Higher Education
Aruba
Austria
Belgium
Bonaire
Bulgaria
Croatia
Curaçao
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
French Polynesia
French Southern and Antarctic Territories
Germany
Greece
Greenland
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Netherlands
New Caledonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Saba
Saint Barthélemy
Serbia
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
St. Eustatius
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Sweden
Turkey
Ukraine
Wallis and Futuna
Research, Development and Innovation Engineering and Technology
Transport, Infrastructure and ICT
Overview

ExpectedOutcome :

Deliverables

  • Harmonised frameworks, tools and infrastructure at European level to support compliance with the AI Act that have been tested in practice by under-resourced SMEs and public authorities.
  • Provision of materials and training courses to support compliance with the AI Act Objective :

The overall objective of this topic is to accelerate innovation and trustworthy AI by providing a range of services and tools to providers of AI systems, in particular to SMEs, to prepare for and facilitate compliance with the upcoming AI Act.

Scope :

The action to be supported under this topic should focus on developing prototypes of services, tools and infrastructure that would be supporting companies to achieve and assess the compliance of their AI systems with the AI Act. This work notably includes:

  • Developing process frameworks, virtual infrastructure, tools, metrics and benchmarks for compliant development and validation of AI systems against the AI Act requirements (e.g. for data quality, accuracy, robustness, safety), including through prototype(s) of software solutions for legal compliance;
  • Developing a prototype of a digital tool supporting providers of AI systems in classifying their AI system in accordance with the levels of risks envisaged in the AI Act;
  • Developing a prototype of a self-assessment tool for conformity assessment, risk management and post market-monitoring, specifically adapted to the needs of SMEs;
  • Developing a digital platform and infrastructure making the frameworks, tools and metrics developed under this action publicly available;
  • Providing personalised technical and legal support to small and medium sized enterprises and public authorities to use the frameworks, tools and infrastructure developed under this action, including to provide ad hoc replies to inquiries in relation to the AI Act - this would include developing online training and awareness-raising material targeted at providers and users of AI systems in relation to relevant requirements and obligations under the AI Act.

The awarded proposal from this topic is expected to collaborate as appropriate with the one from section 2.3.7.2 (AI regulatory sandboxes: EU-level coordination and support). In particular, the latter should rely on draft tools, metrics and guidelines developed under this action. At the same time the testing experience in the sandboxes under 2.3.7.2 should serve to test and update the deliverables under this action. In terms of target group, this action should focus mainly on under-resourced companies, in particular SMEs and start-ups, and under-resourced public authorities developing high-risk AI services/products or general-purpose AI as defined by the AI Act, in particular for what concerns any personalised services and support actions. All final materials, frameworks and tools developed and validated under this action will be made publicly available and may be used by any provider or user of AI system. To build on synergies with other initiatives supported by the EU, this action should establish contacts with TEFs, the AI-on-Demand platform, data spaces, and EDIHs, in order to work out which existing resources can be offered jointly to AI innovators and which resources would have to be built in future. Close cooperation should also be pursued with international and European Standardisation Organisations (in particular CEN107 and CENELEC108) to take into account progress in the development of AI standards and use them as a basis for the development of the action.

Eligibility

Conditions

  1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System

  1. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document

  2. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document

  3. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document

  4. Evaluation and award:

  • Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document
  • Submission and evaluation processes : described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual
  • Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document

6 . Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document

Documents

Call document is available here

Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

Detailed budget table - available in the Submission System

DIGITAL EUROPE PROGRAMME - General MGA v1

Guidance Classification of information in DIGITAL projects

Guidelines on How to Complete your Ethics Self-Assessment

Guidance on participation in DEP - restricted calls

Digital Europe Work Programme 2023-2024

Digital Europe Programme Regulation 2021/694

EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046

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29 May 2024