Ai-assisted Methods And Tools For Engineering Automation
HORIZON JU Innovation Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-FT4-IA
- Programme
- HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-FT4-IA
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Open (31094502)
- Opening Date
- February 3, 2026
- Deadline
- March 3, 2026
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €20,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- €1,000,000
- Max Grant Amount
- €20,000,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 1
- Keywords
- HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-FT4-IAHORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-FT4-IA
Description
Expected Outcome:
he project is expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
- Advanced AI-assisted methods and tools, including generative AI, for the automation of software engineering tasks, from enhancing human efficiency and optimizing resource utilization to enabling complex data/problems analysis/interpretation and supporting intelligent decision-making. Such engineering tasks often involve multiple domains (e.g., modelling, control, data management, communication, mechatronics, etc.) and stakeholders, with the burden of daunting legacy integration, refactoring (e.g., to re-design and replace obsolete technology), and the compliance with specific standards, regulations and certifications.
- Open and extensible AI-assisted integrated platform, based on methodologies including AI-support, AI-based tools and toolchains, following a well-defined engineering process, including the integration with legacy tools. The platform shall provide flexible usage in small and large multi-domain and multi-stakeholder engineering teams, impacting existing and upcoming ECS engineering automation tools and their usage.
- Showcasing and evaluation for software-defined vehicles of efficiency enhancements in terms of cost and time for complex data/knowledge management, resource optimization, energy consumption, interoperability, product/process quality/trustworthiness, learning curve and usability, over the whole lifecycle, from design, through deployment, operations, and maintenance, to the product end-of-life and recycling, and its evolution.
- Best practices and small proof-of-concept studies for other sectors, e.g. medical/pharmaceutical and/or digital industry.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Proposal page limits and layout: detailed in Part B of the Application Form, which you can access from the Call documents section on the Chips JU website's Call page
The following information are all described in the Appendix 7 of the Chips JU Workprogramme
2. Eligible Countries
3. Other Eligible Conditions
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Specific conditions
Please visit the Call page of the Chips JU Website
Call document and annexes:
Call document
The Call Documents Section contains all the call documents, which are listed here:
Reference documents
Guide for Applicants
Evaluation form
Call submission documents and annexes
Application form template Part B
National funding table template
Ownership declaration template
Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
Application form templates — described in Appendix 7 of the Chips JU Workprogramme
Guidance
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Call-specific instructions
Additional documents:
Frequently Asked Questions About Ai-assisted Methods And Tools For Engineering Automation
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