DeepRAP: Deep Reasoning, Abstraction & Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI Systems
Funds research consortia building trustworthy cognitive AI systems that go beyond today's deep learning at reasoning, abstraction and long-term planning.
Full proposals are scored against the standard Horizon Europe Excellence, Impact, and Quality and Efficiency of Implementation criteria, each covered in its own section within a 30-page limit, with the actual weights and pass thresholds set out in the EIC Work Programme rather than on this topic page. The selected portfolio is built for breadth across three categories: the cognitive capability add…
This EIC Pathfinder Challenge funds new AI models or architectures — including neuro-symbolic approaches — that improve deep reasoning, abstraction and planning beyond current deep learning and large language models, while handling multimodal data under constrained compute. Proposals must demonstrate explainability, transparency, fairness and alignment with the EU AI Act, and show the resulting cognitive AI system performing complex real-world tasks at Technology Readiness Level 4.
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