New approaches for decentralized, federated and sustainable AI data processing (RIA)

In short

This is a Research and Innovation Action under Horizon Europe. The budget is €35 million for about 2 grants of €17.5 million each. Submission opens on 17 November 2026. Deadline: 18 March 2027.

What the call wants to achieve

• Project results are expected to contribute to developing new approaches, tools and techniques that overcome the obstacles of today's centralised AI compute techniques: limits in the availability of energy and AI compute capacity in centralised standalone environments, limited availability of types of AI chips, data (…)
• The ultimate objective is to help overcome EU’s AI compute capacity bottlenecks by offering alternative decentralised and sustainable AI compute models that enable exploitation of diverse hardware processing architectures and scaling approaches.

Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal, © European Union, CC BY 4.0, summarised. The official call text and its annexes decide eligibility, budget and deadlines.

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