Deadline: 17-May-22
The European Commission (EC) is offering grants under “Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for Smart Cities and Communities” to maximise the uptake of AI-powered solutions in smart cities and communities and to maximise the impact on the smart cities and communities’ services and competitiveness and maximize the impact on AI innovators.
The main objective of this measure is to provide a testing and experimentation facility for AI and robotics in cities and communities and make their resources accessible to EU cities, communities and innovative industry stakeholders (including SMEs) that would enable them to validate novel AI-driven services in close-to-real-life environments before their further massive deployment.
The Testing and Experimentation Facility will actively collaborate with the project validating the blueprint for a common European data space for smart cities and communities by making any infrastructure created by the pilots funded under that initiative widely accessible on a longer-term basis to other stakeholders in line with the Testing and Experimentation Facility context.
Contribution to AI innovation:
- Boosting the competitiveness of the European industry, including SMEs in AI, a technology of high strategic relevance;
- Contributing to boost European IP and products based on European technology;
- Creation of world-class experimentation facilities in Europe, offering a comprehensive support combining the necessary expertise, meeting the needs of European innovators. The organisations running the TEFs and their process will ensure the highest level of trust and security for the users of the TEFs, and highest quality of the testing and validation to guarantee trust and security in the tested solutions, key for their broad diffusion
- Contributing to European technology sovereignty and open strategic autonomy in AI, and AI-enabled solutions;
- Contributing to the implementation of the New European Bauhaus initiative.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 20.000.000,00.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
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be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
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non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries
- countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
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