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Alliance for Language Technologies (CSA)

DIGITAL Coordination and Support Actions

Basic Information

Identifier
DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-LANGUAGE-02
Programme
Cloud, data and artificial intelligence
Programme Period
2021 - 2027
Status
Closed (31094503)
Opening Date
February 29, 2024
Deadline
May 29, 2024
Deadline Model
single-stage
Budget
€4,000,000
Min Grant Amount
Max Grant Amount
Expected Number of Grants
Keywords
DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-LANGUAGE-02DIGITAL-2024-AI-06Artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence, intelligent systems, multi agent systemsEcosystem buildingSME support

Description

Expected Outcome:

Deliverables

  • An improved EU-wide digital infrastructure for Language Technologies.
  • A strong community with the establishment of a coordination framework for the different stakeholders (e.g., Member States and industry) around relevant European, national and private initiatives for large language models.
Objective:

Through federating Member States efforts, this action will directly contribute to preserving the linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe while effectively implementing the European Common Data Infrastructure and Service MCP’s objectives in the area of language technologies. By providing the necessary data and model adaptation capacities, the action will have a strong impact on the deployment of large language foundation models and their applications such as generative AI. This federated effort will be established around two work strands.

Second work strand - Ecosystem

The second work strand will support the coordination of a European Language Technologies ecosystem. This activity will bring together public and private organisations to provide infrastructure and support to developers and users of large language models, especially SMEs.

Scope:

The infrastructure will act as advisory point, offer awareness raising and community building. It will support SMEs to onboard the large language models in their production workflows. The work will be carried out in close collaboration with national initiatives, the Data Spaces, the AI on demand platform, Testing and Experimentation Facilities, Digital Innovation Hubs, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s supercomputing facilities and in synergy with the open-source foundation model action. The consortium that will implement this action should be composed by representatives of Member States.

Eligibility & Conditions

Conditions

Conditions



1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document 

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System

2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document

3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document

  • Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document

  • Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document

Documents

Call document is available here

Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

Detailed budget table - available in the Submission System

DIGITAL EUROPE PROGRAMME General MGA v1.0

Guidance Classification of information in DIGITAL projects

Guidelines on How to Complete your Ethics Self-Assessment

Guidance on participation in DEP - restricted calls 

Support & Resources

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Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.

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Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.

Latest Updates

Last Changed: July 31, 2024

For information on the evaluations results of this call we invite you to consult the Flash call info (evaluation results) in the following link.

 

Last Changed: May 21, 2024

Please note that the call document has been amended to include a minor update under topic DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-FINETUNE  (page 15 and page 25). It is to be noted that this update DOES NOT modify in any way the topic conditions, the eligibility or evaluation criteria and it is only relevant to this topic.

Last Changed: February 29, 2024
The submission session is now available for: DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-IMAGING(DIGITAL-SME), DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-LANGUAGE-01(DIGITAL-SIMPLE), DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-LANGUAGE-02(DIGITAL-CSA), DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-FINETUNE(DIGITAL-SME)
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