Pionniers de l'Intelligence Artificielle — relève juin
Funds high-potential artificial intelligence research with transformative impact in industry, health, ecology, and security.
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The Pionniers de l'Intelligence Artificielle call is a France 2030 program operated by Bpifrance designed to support high-potential AI R&D projects with transformative technological impact and national sovereignty implications. The program funds projects that implement a concrete identified use case demonstrating transformative impact in one of four strategic sectors: industrial design and production, health, ecological transition, or security. Projects must move beyond incremental AI improvement to demonstrate genuine rupture-level innovation. The call opened 11 September 2025 and closes at its final relay on 2 June 2026.
The program uses a phase-gated structure with three successive project phases. Each phase requires a separate application submission and selection process — passage between phases is not automatic. Phase 1 is funded at 100% grant for all applicant types. Phases 2 and 3 provide a maximum 50% grant for enterprises and up to 100% grant for research establishments. Three submission pathways exist at application: a generic pathway managed by Bpifrance, an industrial partnerships pathway managed by the Agence de programmes Numérique (via Inria), and a startup creation pathway also managed by the Agence de programmes Numérique. Applicants must select their pathway at the point of submission. The final relay date for all pathways is 2 June 2026 at midday Paris time. Contact: aap-france2030@bpifrance.fr.
Eligible applicants include for-profit companies and research establishments registered in France; non-profits and individual applicants are not eligible. Award amounts are not published on the program page; the cahier des charges governing scoring, aid amounts, and project minimum size was not extracted and must be downloaded from the Bpifrance site before preparing a submission. Organizations with mature AI research targeting the four priority sectors, particularly those with an industrial partnership or a spinout-creation angle, should treat the 2 June 2026 deadline as their near-term action point.
Funds high-potential AI R&D projects with transformative impact in industrial design and production, health, ecological transition, or security, using a phase-gated grant structure under France 2030.
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