ELIAS 1st open call

We live in a crucial historical moment, with tremendous challenges ahead, from climate change to the energy crisis. ELIAS emerges from the belief that AI will be a key discipline to help us tackle these challenges. At the same time, the development of AI entails deep ethical and societal concerns that need to be addressed. As for fundamental research, ELIAS will address key scientific questions about how AI can reduce computational costs, serves to model effects of policy decisions on society, and impacts individuals. ELIAS will strive for a deep integration of the fundamental research that takes place in academia and the more applications-focused research from industry. The outcome of ELIAS will be to establish Europe as a leader in AI research in which impact on the environment, society and the individual are integral considerations during development. We will measure the success of this endeavor in terms of key indicators, including the number of new cross-institutional collaborations, the number of cross-disciplinary collaborations, the number of industry-academic partnerships, publications in top conferences and journals, patents, and the number of projects that have resulted in deployed technologies.

Entité de financement

Commission Européenne - Horizon Europe

Clôture de l'appel

30 avril 2025

Zone géographique

eur

Thématiques

Cyber security

Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

Accéder à l'appel à projets

Objectif

ELIAS is looking for projects based on AI applications that engage with the network in the categories “Methodology”, “Software/Tools”, “Benchmarks” relevant but not limited to the use cases of ELIAS in the scope of AI for Sustainability.

ELIAS is focused on 3 research spheres, but applications are not limited to them as long as the proposals will address high-impact societal and economic challenges using machine learning.

Critères d'éligibilité

ELIAS is looking for individual SMEs which, at the moment of applying, must be officially registered legal entities established in:
- Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their overseas departments
- The Horizon Europe Associated Countries

Technologies clés

ELIAS use cases:

• AI for Building Optimization
• AI for Monitoring the Virtual Infrastructure
• Responsible, User-centric Advertising
• Mitigating misinformed migrant perception in EU
• AI for Forecasting of Vegetation State
• Materials Discovery
• Personalized co-piloting systems

Typologie de consortium

ELIAS will select SMEs/startups that will enter the 6-month program and receive:
- Up to € 60.000 (lump sum) to develop novel AI-based applications in one of ELIAS focus areas
- Visibility through ELIAS online channels and events, and dissemination in the ELLIS community.

At minimum, the projects need to reach TRL 5 and show a validation of technology in an industrial relevant environment of one of the use cases. Applicants will be able and are encouraged to offer their own contributions in order to reach even higher TRL levels up to duration of 6 months.