EIT Manufacturing South East launches the AI-IGNITE open call that seeks to promote Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation across the South East region.
AI-IGNITE is one of the initiatives that emerged following the collaboration agreement between EIT Manufacturing South East and the Greek Satellite of AI-MATTERS with the goal of enhancing the competitiveness of the local business ecosystem by promoting the testing and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
Focus areas of the Call:
The AI-IGNITE Open Call invites proposals for innovation activities that address all areas related to the available Services (2.2. AI-MATTERS Services for the AI-IGNITE Open Call), namely:
Industrial Digital Twins
Intuitive robot programming
Dynamic robot task planning & resources orchestration
Layout planning optimization
AR & VR for operator support & training
Industrial IoT platform, analytics & visualization
Synthetic data for training machine learning models
Monitoring & control of milling processes
Quality assessment in Resistance Spot Welding
Call Awards:
The AI-IGNITE open call will award the five (5) top companies positioned for significant growth within the AI landscape, with:
A financial award of €10,000 per beneficiary from EIT Manufacturing South East for implementing their development plans
A ticket of up to €40.000 of in-kind contribution from the AI-MATTERS Greek Satellite covering the required infrastructure and expertise to design, engineer, deploy, and evaluate the beneficiaries’ solutions in their Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEF)
A growth package of up to three (3) months of dedicated Access-to-Market (A2M) support services from EIT Manufacturing South East Business Development & Innovation team.
Who can apply?
Specifically, through “AI-IGNITE” the aim is to accelerate the market deployment of AI-enabled concepts and innovative technologies by selecting and awarding Startups and SMEs that provide AI-based advanced solutions and take actions to boost the maturity of related technologies, enhance their competitiveness and productivity.
Eligible companies are early-stage or maturecompanies, with a valid PIC number, that are registered and active in one of the following countries supported by EIT Manufacturing South East, namely Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Moldova, North Macedonia, Romania, and Türkiye.
Application Deadline:
The applications will be received until on 9th September, 24 – 23:59 EEST.
Final Event: 3rd October 2024
For application and more information regarding the call, please follow the call website.