- Attract outstanding talent and the best research teams to tackle key scientific and technological AI challenges, of relevance to industry.
- Drive substantial and broad scientific progress in key AI areas with the aim to reinforce the research excellence in Europe.
- Prepare at least three open innovation challenges addressing challenges in collaboration with the projects funded under the following topics: CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-01, CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-3, CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-01 and CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-02 focusing on optimisation, explainability, robustness, natural language understanding and interaction, and collaborative intelligence[2] respectively. The projects funded through these calls should participate in the respective open innovation challenges, and can receive rewards, but will not be eligible to receive prize money as they are already funded.
- Enable strong cooperation and co-creation between academia and industry and establish a continuous interaction
- Attract industry and business interest in demonstrating advanced performances meeting the needs of user industry, in view of fostering deployment and business opportunities in Europe.
- Define a process that fosters the uptake of developed algorithms/solutions across Europe
[2] This concerns topics CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-01, CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-01, CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-02 and CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-03
