SMEs and Start-Ups, submit the proposal to the first FFplus

Solve your business challenges and shift to the next level with the help of HPC!

OPEN CALL FOR BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS!

WHY SHOULD SMEs Apply to the FFplus Open Call?

• Address Specific Business Challenges: Solve pressing business
  issues with the help of HPC.
• Develop and Optimize Solutions: Create or enhance innovative, advanced solutions, products, or processes.
• Acquire New Know-How: Adapt to and implement
  state-of-the-art technologies such as HPC, HPDA, and AI.
• Achieve Clear Business Benets: Experience benefits like reduced time-to-market, higher ROI, and lower R&D and production costs.

WHICH SMES can apply to the FFplus Open Call?

The call targets the highest quality experiments involving innovative, agile SMEs and with work plans built around innovation targets arising from the use of advanced HPC services. Proposals are sought that address business challenges from European SMEs from varied application domains, whereby SMEs whose adoption of advanced HPC services will create the highest business impact will be prioritized. Only organisations with head offices based in an EU Member State or in associated countries that are eligible to receive funding from the Digital Europe. Programme are eligible to receive funding.

KEY DETAILS

• Submission Deadline: 4th September 2024, at 17:00 Brussels local time.
• Indicative Timetable: The new experiments commence at the beginning of January 2025. The maximum duration of the experiments is 15 months.
• Funding for Open Call: The indicative total funding budget is EUR 4 million. The maximum funding request per proposal is EUR 200,000.

OPEN CALL FOR INNOVATION STUDIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENERATIVE AI MODELS!

WHY SHOULD SMEs & Start-Ups Apply to the FFplus Open Call?

• Expand your generative AI business potential by leveraging new models and exploiting European extreme-scale computing resources.
• Develop a path to offer new value propositions to an expanded customer base.
• Learn to integrate HPC capabilities into your machine-learning product and service development life-cycle.

WHICH SMES OR START-UPS can apply to the FFplus Open Call?

This announcement is the first call for proposals for “innovation studies” driven by the business needs of SMEs and Start-ups highly competent in generative AI, professional software development, and data processing. The innovation studies must use large-scale European HPC resources (e.g., pre-exascale and exascale supercomputers) to develop and customise generative AI models such as foundation and large language models. Only organisations with head offices based in an EU Member State or in associated countries that are eligible to receive funding from the Digital Europe Programme are eligible to receive funding.

KEY DETAILS

• Submission Deadline: 4th September 2024, at 17:00 Brussels local time.
• Indicative Timetable: The new experiments commence on December 1st, 2024. The maximum duration of the experiments is 10 months.
• Funding for Open Call: The indicative total funding budget is EUR 4 million. The maximum funding request per proposal is EUR 300,000.