Safe and Efficient Frontier AI
Funds a €44M frontier-AI project that builds safer, more efficient European models with lower computational demands.
Frontier AI models could unlock major scientific and economic opportunities, but their energy use, computational cost and safety risks are growing quickly. This topic funds European research that advances frontier-model capability while tackling those constraints directly.
The project can develop and train a state-of-the-art multimodal model with tool use, reasoning and autonomous problem-solving…
Advance a sovereign European frontier AI model toward state-of-the-art performance with multimodal and agentic capabilities, while developing methods that reduce computational demand and make advanced AI safer. Research may cover compression, distillation, efficient architectures, lower-cost training and inference, automated safety testing, interpretability, misalignment, reward hacking, encoded reasoning, adversarial attacks, jailbreaks, backdoors and agentic-AI risks. Start at TRL 2 and reach TRL 4, involve the European AI research community, attract talent, connect with RAISE, AI Factories and Data Labs, and allocate cohesion work with ADRA and the GenAI4EU central Hub.
Sign up free to see the funding breakdown
Sign up free to see the industries in scope
Sign up free to see the full eligibility
Sign up free to see how to apply
Sign up free to see what you submit
Sign up free to see how they score you
Sign up free to see the timeline
Sign up free to see where teams trip up
Guides for this application
All guides →Horizon Europe Grants for Startups: A Founder Guide
A practical guide to Horizon Europe grants for startups, including EIC, consortia, eligibility, Funding & Tenders, TRL, budgets, and EU strategy.
Start hereTRL Levels Explained for Deeptech Founders
Learn what TRL levels mean, how to estimate technology readiness, and how TRL affects grants, EIC Accelerator, SBIR/STTR, funding stage, and application evidence.
Write proposalHow to Write a Grant Proposal Reviewers Can Score
Learn how to write a grant proposal around reviewer criteria, evidence, work packages, budget logic, and commercialization for deeptech and R&D funding.
DocumentsGrant Work Plan Template: Work Packages, Gantt, Milestones, and Risks
Use this grant work plan template to structure work packages, tasks, owners, deliverables, Gantt timing, dependencies, and risk registers.
More from European Commission
All grants from this funder →Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions and crime
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research and pilot collaboration between police authorities and civil-society groups to prevent addiction-linked crime across the EU.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Horizon Border Security: Age Assessment Reliability
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €1.33M project, run with border and coast guard authorities, that compares how reliable different ways of estimating a young migrant's age really are.
Horizon Border Security: Surveillance & Drone Detection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M projects that build border detection and surveillance tech, run jointly with national Border and Coast Guard authorities.
Horizon Civil Security: Bioterrorism Prevention
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €3M project that reviews how synthetic biology could be misused for bioterrorism and pinpoints where monitoring and regulation fall short.
Similar grants
Browse the directory →
IIA Magnet Consortium R&D
🇮🇱IIA · Israel
Supports pre-competitive technology infrastructure work through Israeli industry and research consortium cooperation.
IQ ESSOR — Investment Feasibility and Digital Diagnostics (Volet 1)
🇨🇦IQ · Canada
Funds Quebec for-profit companies conducting feasibility studies or digital diagnostics to prepare major investment projects.
ERP Digitalization Loan and Grant (511/512)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds companies and freelancers in Germany delivering digitalization projects with subsidized loans and grants up to €200,000.
Grand Solutions Grant
🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark
Funds Denmark-wide flagship consortia tackling difficult science and engineering problems through shared-stage support.
EDF Development Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.
Industriens Fond — Main Grant
🇩🇰Industriens Fond · Denmark
Funds collaborative industrial innovation in Denmark by supporting consortia in sustainable production, cybersecurity, and new technologies.