AI grants in Germany

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Funds generative, foundation and agentic AI for faster materials development, safer plants and more efficient industrial processes.

Funds 6G network-architecture research on simplified control/user-plane designs, constrained AI for network operations, and serverless multi-domain service orchestration.

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Pays deep-tech start-ups, SMEs and research organisations a €300,000 lump sum in Stage 1, then up to €2.5 million in Stage 2, to push high-risk breakthrough innovations that lack commercial uptake toward real-world, demand-tested deployment.

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Funds AI-driven and automated farming solutions for greenhouses, vertical farms and other controlled environment agriculture, with money for SMEs to test them.

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Funds work that makes EOSC's research data and repositories AI-ready and machine-actionable, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative.

Funds a flagship project that federates EU health data and pilots AI tools for cardiovascular risk prediction, prevention and personalised care.

Funds AI teams building generative-AI tools for clinical-dataset enhancement or automotive crash-test case generation, paying up to €100,000 in prizes after an initial €28,500 concept-stage award.

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Funds AI tools that combine Earth observation and socioeconomic data for environmental policy, resilience and competitiveness.

Funds one national entity or consortium per EuroHPC country to run an AI Factory Antenna offering AI compute access, training and support tied to an established AI Factory.

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Funds factory AI that adapts production in real time, improves quality, and cuts scrap, energy use and carbon emissions.

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Funds around four projects, each worth EUR 13 million, to use AI and self-driving labs to speed up the discovery of new chemicals and materials.

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Funds research into AI-assisted digital twins for aircraft design, manufacturing and maintenance, repair and overhaul.

Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

Awards up to €100,000 to teams building a GenAI mission generator for farm robots.

Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.

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Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.

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Funds AI-driven forecasting tools that help energy communities and consumers share power while easing the burden on grid operators.

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Funds generative-AI digital twins of complex real-world systems for research infrastructures in fields like healthcare, transport and manufacturing.

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Funds AI tools that turn Destination Earth's digital-twin simulations into local, real-time impact assessments for non-technical users.

Funds one project to build AI algorithms, data-source guidance and practical tools for faster, more accurate detection of drug safety signals.

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Funds one coordination project up to EUR 2.5 million to align telecom, cloud and edge stakeholders around the EU's 3C Network telco edge cloud pilot.

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Pays public-administration consortia to procure and deploy European GenAI tools for citizen services, worth roughly five to seven million euros per pilot.

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Pays one network of leading European AI research institutes EUR 17 million to run a virtual pan-European AI research institute pursuing frontier, fundamental AI science.