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Privacy-preserving human-AI dialogue systems – Participation in a technological challenge

Funds teams that build a defence-ready human-AI dialogue system and enter it into a shared, independently judged evaluation challenge.

This is a single-stage action funded as an EDF Lump Sum Grant, with an indicative 2025 budget of EUR 20,000,000 for this topic, labelled as contributing to the EU's STEP objectives. Funded teams build a demonstrator and take part in evaluation campaigns run by the third-party consortium selected under the companion topic EDF-2025-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-DIGIT-HAIDO. Applications go through the EU Funding

AIDefense

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.