European Commission launches AIPlan4EU Project

Deadline: 31-Jan-23

Do you have expertise in AI planning or software development? Or are you a company with a real-world AI Planning use-case? If yes, then apply for the European Commission (EC) funded AIPlan4EU Project for Innovators.

Goals

• Following the overall vision for AI in Europe, the project leverages the excellent research on planning technology that Europe has funded and constructed over the years by bringing it to innovators and practitioners.
• AIPlan4EU is centred around 6 ambitious objectives:
  • Making planning accessible to practitioners and innovators
  • Facilitate the integration of planning and other ICT technologies
  • Making planning relevant in a wide range of application sectors
  • Seamlessly integrate planning within the AI4EU platform
  • Facilitate learning of planning for up- and reskilling and lower the access barrier
  • Standardize and drive academic research towards applications

Focus Areas

The design of the various activities in AIPlan4EU is derived from user needs, considering use-cases relevant in the scope of AI planning, regardless of their sector. For example, the use-cases provided by the project partners themselves are from the following areas:

• Planning for space
• Planning for agriculture
• Planning for manufacturing
• Planning for logistics
• Planning for autonomous driving
• Planning for automated experimentation
• Planning for subsea robotics

Funding Information

• Track A
  • €60.000
  • Duration: 7 months
• Track B
  • €90.000
  • Duration: 7 months
• Track C
  • Winning Use-Cases Sub-Track €30.000
  • Technology Specific Bridge Sub-Track €60.000
  • Duration: 7 months

Outcomes

• Track A
  • The integration code shall be documented, and a final written report shall describe in detail how to use the tool via the UPF and how the integration code works. The financed projects will have a duration of 6 months and will be structured in three sprints of 2 months each plus 1 month for finalizing and preparing the demonstrator.
• Track B
  • The use-case must be described in a dedicated report deliverable and the developed TSB shall address at least some of the aspects highlighted by the use-case. Moreover, at the end of the 6 months project, the TSB shall be demonstrated and evaluated on the use-case specifications.
  • The AIPlan4EU project finances the realization of TSBs that must use the functionality offered by the UPF library and the realization of a demonstrator that showcases the developed TSBs on the proposed use-case.
  • The TSB code shall be documented, and a final written report shall describe in detail how to use the tool and how the integration code works. The financed projects will have a duration of 6 months and will be structured in three sprints of 2 months each plus 1 month for finalizing and preparing the demonstrator.
• Track C
  • The TSB code shall be documented, and a final written report shall describe in detail how to use the tool and how the integration code works. The financed projects will have a duration of 6 months and will be structured in three sprints of 2 months each plus 1 month for finalizing and preparing the demonstrator.

Eligibility Criteria

• Track A:
  • Innovators/Natural Persons/Individuals: students, experts, professionals, researchers, etc.)
  • Single organisations: Any type of organisation is eligible (ex: SMEs, Mid-Caps, Start-up, spin-off corporates, large companies, research institutes, universities, labs, NGOs, Foundations, etc).
• Track B:
  • Group of Organisation (a consortium of 2 companies maximum): Any type of organisation is eligible (ex: SMEs, MidCaps, Start-up, spin-off corporates, large companies, research institutes, universities, labs, NGOs, Foundations, etc.
• Track C:
  • Innovators/Natural Persons/Individuals: students, experts, professionals, researchers, etc.)
  • Single organisations: Any type of organisation is eligible (ex: SMEs, Mid-Caps, Start-up, spin-off corporates, large companies, research institutes, universities, labs, NGOs, Foundations, etc).
• Only Applicants legally established/resident in any of the following countries:
  • The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their outermost regions
  • The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) linked to the Member States
  • H2020 associated countries
  • The UK applicants are eligible under the conditions set by the EC for H2020 participation at the time of the deadline of the call.
• English is the official language for AIPlan4EU open calls. Submissions done in any other language will be disregarded and not evaluated.
• Each applicant must confirm:
  • The organisation is not under liquidation or is not an enterprise under difficulty
  • Its project is based on the original works and going forward, any foreseen developments are free from third-party rights, or they are clearly stated.
  • It is not excluded from the possibility of obtaining EU funding under the provisions of both national and EU law or by a decision of both national or EU authority.

For more information, visit AIPlan4EU.