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AI compute evaluation and deployment platform for EU infrastructure

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Next cut-off
27 Oct '26
in 51 days
Per grant
€70M
the call's own average
Grants expected
1
projects that will be funded
Funding rate
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In context of Digital Europe Programme

This grant€70M
The track runs to the largest grant in Digital Europe Programme (€70M). The median across the 23 calls we publish is €4.0M, this one is above it.

What this call funds

Expected Outcome:

The expected outcomes of this topic are :

  • A common EU evaluation platform for AI chips and racks, with transparent KPIs, workloads and benchmark reports used for Chips JU selection and procurement decisions.
  • First pilot deployments of European AI compute systems validated for EU sovereign partitions of AI infrastructure.
  • Structured collaboration between buyers and suppliers, supporting deployment, integration and optimisation of European AI compute solutions.
  • Stronger EU demand for European AI chips and racks, helping to create a market for deployment-ready solutions.
  • Increased EU technological sovereignty across the AI compute stack for European datacentres.

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort3–4 weekssingle submission
Time to first payment6–9 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

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