Artificial Intelligence Strategy
Supports Germany’s national artificial intelligence roadmap through broad Federal strategy funding and shared infrastructure across research, innovation, and compute growth.
The Federal Government's Artificial Intelligence Strategy is Germany's national AI policy framework, with the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space as one of the lead ministries. Adopted in 2018, updated in 2020, and extended through the AI Action Plan in 2023, it is meant to strengthen Germany and Europe in AI research, adoption, and infrastructure. The public funding attached to the strategy is substantial. Federal budgets for 2019 to 2021 each earmarked EUR 500 million a year for AI, the 2020 stimulus and future technologies package added another EUR 2 billion, and the ministry says it plans to invest more than EUR 1.6 billion in AI during the current legislative period. The framework supports AI competence centres such as BIFOLD, DFKI, Lamarr, MCML, ScaDS.AI, and TUE.AI, alongside AI service centres, the National High Performance Computing Alliance, AI Campus, data competence centres, and young-researcher measures. This is an umbrella strategy rather than a single competition, so applicants do best when they fit a named initiative, infrastructure call, or research measure under the action plan. The ministry's emphasis is on data, computing capacity, skills, and European coordination, with strong attention to robotics, health, education, and AI start-ups, so the most credible proposals are those that can plug into that wider ecosystem rather than stand alone.
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