PIIEC IA
Backs large French AI-industry projects with state aid, paid as a grant or a repayable advance.
PIIEC IA is a Bpifrance grant that backs large French AI-industry projects with state aid, paid as a grant or a repayable advance, open to companies and research bodies joining the European AI industrial ecosystem as a direct participant or an associated partner. Direct participants must be companies registered in France; associated partners can be any entity, including research bodies. The French…
The call is open to companies and research bodies that want to join the European AI industrial ecosystem as a direct participant or an associated partner. Projects must show real cross-border collaboration with at least one other participant elsewhere in the PIIEC, not a simple client-supplier relationship.
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