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Summary
dAIEDGE is a Network of Excellence (NoE) for distributed, trustworthy, efficient and scalable AI at the Edge. The dAIEDGE Network of Excellence (NoE) seeks to strengthen and support the development of a dynamic European cutting-edge AI ecosystem under the umbrella of the European Lighthouse for AI, and to sustain the development of advanced AI.
The 3rd Open Call aims to expand the role of the dAIEDGE Network of Excellence in the edge AI continuum, encompassing micro-, deep-, and meta-edge, with a focus on standardisation, open-source contributions, and infrastructure development.
Detailed Call Description
Each single applicant or consortium must select and reply in its proposal to one of the following Industrial Challenges (details in Annex 1 of the Guide for Applicants):
- Balancing Energy Efficiency and Trustworthiness in Federated Learning Across the Edge- Cloud Continuum
- Enabling On-Device Training Support in TFLite Micro for Resource-Constrained Edge Devices
- Very low consumption of speech enhancement AI algorithm at the edge 4. High-Performance Bayesian-based AI Agents for Embedded Intelligence in Smart Environments
- Towards a Unified Semantic and Hyperspatial World Model: Enabling Smart Edge Systems through Domain-Aware Graphs and Agent Governance 6. Automated Edge deployment, tuning and Performance Evaluation of Binary Neural Networks targeting FPGA enabled platform
- Towards Automatic DMWay Configuration with Generative AI 8. Health Monitoring AI for Edge Devices with Privacy-First
- Edge AI framework for web browsers empowering Federated Machine Learning applications addressing Classification problems over multiple format data (text and images)
- Off-Chip Weights for Streaming Architectures 11. 2D Vehicle Detection Network on PYNQ-Z1
- Real-Time Vision Transformer (ViT) on FPGA SoC for Image Classification
- Generative AI for object detection in Edge scenarios
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The dAIEDGE Open Call for Exchange Programs has a maximum budget of €600.000.
The Collaborative Projects Support Programme will finance up to 10 Proposals to solve the Industrial Challenges defined by the dAIEDGE Consortium, with the possibility of using resources from the dAIEDGE Virtual Lab or adding new resources to it or to re-use developments of the dAIEDGE project or dAIEDGE use-cases.
Each beneficiary project of dAIEDGE Collaborative Projects Open Call can receive a maximum amount of up to €60.000 for participating in the up to 7 months of Support Programme, which includes the following stages:
- Stage 1: Plan Phase, during which the beneficiary should deliver an Individual Mentoring Plan (including challenges, research activities and budget). The duration of this stage is up to 1 month and, after completing it, the beneficiary will receive a maximum amount of up to €9.000.
- Stage 2: Implementation Phase, which should lead to a Proof of Demonstration. The duration of this stage is up to 6 months and, after completing it, the beneficiary will receive a maximum amount of up to €51.000.
Thematic Categories
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
dAIEDGE Collaborative Projects Open Call looks for legal entities, applying individually or as a consortium of up to 2 entities.
The eligible entities are:
- Research and Technology Organisations (RTO),
- Academia or
- SMEs (including startups) legally registered as a company at the moment of the application submission to this Open Call, which will delegate its individual Researcher or PhD Student.