Abordări noi pentru procesarea descentralizată, federată și sustenabilă a datelor pentru inteligență artificială

Orizont Europa

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Această solicitare din programul Orizont Europa finanțează proiecte de cercetare și inovație care dezvoltă tehnologii și tehnici noi pentru procesarea descentralizată, federată și sustenabilă a datelor cu inteligență artificială, pe întreaga infrastructură de la cloud la edge și HPC. Banii acoperă activități de cercetare, dezvoltare și demonstrare în cel puțin două cazuri de utilizare din domenii diferite, începând de la nivelul TRL 3 până la TRL 6-7. Pot aplica entități legale din statele membre UE și din țările asociate enumerate, iar propunerile trebuie să vizeze depășirea limitelor actuale de capacitate de calcul AI și eficiență energetică.

Grant per proiect

17.500.000 la 17.500.000 EUR

Buget total apel

35.000.000 EUR

Se deschide

17.11.2026

Tip de acțiune

HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

Eligibilitate România

Organizațiile din România pot aplica

Identificator apel

HORIZON-CL4-2027-04-DATA-03

Sursă

Portalul UE pentru finanțări (apeluri tematice)

Expected Outcome: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 quality and security and latency in AI data processing. 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.Scope:This topic focusses on technologies and techniques that enable AI data processing to leverage distributed compute resources across the cloud and edge computing continuum throughout the whole AI model lifecycle from data collection, training, fine-tuning, and deployment. To overpass today’s state of the art in the area, the considered research areas include:To research on distributed, decentralised, and federated “compute continuum” enabled AI architectures beyond federated learning and integrating model compression tools and new mechanisms to enable AI data processing to scale across multiple and diverse computing infrastructures.Development, deployment, and operation of AI workflows across heterogeneous and distributed infrastructures along the compute continuum (edge, cloud, HPC), including the possibility of incorporating innovative computing paradigms (neuromorphic and quantum computing) and hardware efficiency enhancements ((e.g., including in-memory computing, and hardware and software approximation).Novel methods and techniques to improve data availability and consistency for decentralised AI data processing. These consider tools to ensure data quality (e.g. prevention of data sets imbalance or inconsistency across distributed data sources), volume optimisation for data transfers across environments, and distributed data management, all while preserving data privacy and preventing data leaks (e.g. via advanced cryptographic protection such as post-quantum cryptography for resistance to emerging quantum threats).New tools and mechanisms to measure, monitor and improve end-to-end energy efficiency and sustainability of AI data processing across the compute continuum, including the exploration of energy and sustainability implications of the heterogeneous AI processing architectures and their impact in the compute infrastructure design and long-term sustainability. Successful project proposals should showcase proposed developments in at least two complementary use cases in different domains. These use cases should demonstrate the value gained and potential impact of project achievements in real-world situations, as well as address key applications and sectors critical to Europe's competitiveness. Use cases should provide compelling examples and scenarios and cater for the reproducibility of results' added value and impact in additional economic sectors.Technology Readiness Level - Technology readiness level expected from completed projectsActivities are expected to start at TRL 3 and achieve TRL 6-7 by the end of the project, see General Annex B.

General conditions1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layoutdescribed in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.2. Eligible Countriesdescribed in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.3. Other Eligible ConditionsIn order to achieve the expected outcomes, and safeguard the Union’s strategic assets, interests, autonomy, and security, it is important to avoid a situation of technological dependency on a non-EU source, in a global context that requires the EU to take action to build on its strengths, and to carefully assess and address any strategic weaknesses, vulnerabilities and high-risk dependencies which put at risk the attainment of its ambitions. For this reason, participation is limited to legal entities established in Member States, Iceland and Norway and the following additional associated countries: Canada, Israel, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In addition, entities established in third countries which may become associated to Horizon Europe during 2026 and 2027 may be eligible to participate in this topic if the third country is identified for this topic as an eligible country in the List of Participating Countries in Horizon Europe at the time of submission of the application[[See the List of Participating Countries in Horizon Europe available at https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/guidance/list-3rd-country-participation_horizon-euratom_en.pdf.]]. In any case, the association agreement to the Programme must apply by the time of the signature of the grant agreement.For the duly justified and exceptional reasons listed in the paragraph above, in order to guarantee the protection of the strategic interests of the Union and its Member States, entities established in an eligible country listed above, but which are directly or indirectly controlled by a non-eligible country or by a non-eligible country entity, may not participate in the action unless it can be demonstrated, by means of guarantees positively assessed by their eligible country of establishment, that their participation to the action would not negatively impact the Union’s strategic assets, interests, autonomy, or security . Entities established in an eligible country, but which are directly or indirectly controlled by China or by a legal entity established in China cannot submit guarantees.[[ The guarantees shall in particular substantiate that, for the purpose of the action, measures are in place to ensure that: a) control over the applicant legal entity is not exercised in a manner that retrains or restricts its ability to carry out the action and to deliver results, that imposes restrictions concerning its infrastructure, facilities, assets, resources, intellectual property or know-how needed for the purpose of the action, or that undermines its capabilities and standards necessary to carry out the action; b) access by a non-eligible country or by a non-eligible country entity to sensitive information relating to the action is prevented; and the employees or other persons involved in the action have a national security clearance issued by an eligible country, where appropriate; c) ownership of the intellectual property arising from, and the results of, the action remain within the recipient during and after completion of the action, are not subject to control or restrictions by non-eligible countries or non-eligible country entity, and are not exported outside the eligible countries, nor is access to them from outside the eligible countries granted, without the approval of the eligible country in which the legal entity is established.]]Described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusiondescribed in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholdsare described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processesare described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreementdescribed in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.6. Legal and financial set-up of the grantsdescribed in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.Specific conditions described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme] Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA): Application form templates, the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission SystemStandard application form (HE RIA, IA)Evaluation form templates, will be used with the necessary adaptationsStandard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) GuidanceHE Programme Guide Model Grant Agreements (MGA)HE MGA Call-specific instructions Ownership Control Declaration AnnexAdditional documents: HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-1. General IntroductionHE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-7. Digital, Industry and SpaceHE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-15. General AnnexesHE Programme GuideHE Framework Programme 2021/695HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity AssessmentEU Grants AGA, Annotated Model Grant AgreementFunding & Tenders Portal Online Manual Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy StatementGuidance on participation in EU calls with ownership and control restrictions

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