Library FAQ
What are the key expected outcomes for funded projects?
Deliver models/architectures handling multimodal data and uncertainty with constrained resources; provable trustworthiness mechanisms (explainability, transparency, fairness, risk evaluation, security, alignment with ethical and legal standards including the E...
What are the main award criteria for the EIC Accelerator?
The main criteria are Excellence, Impact, and Level of Risk, Implementation and Need for Union Support; specific items include innovation depth, TRL demonstration, IP, market opportunity, business model, broader impact, team capability, risk management, implem...
What evaluation and certification work is expected from applicants?
Proposals should propose new methods and metrics for evaluating and certifying reasoning and trustworthiness in AI and for the use of computational resources.
What is Deep Abstraction as defined in the work programme?
Enabling AI to generalise from limited data by forming and manipulating high-level concepts, analogies, and internal world models to support transfer learning, commonsense understanding, semantic and contextual awareness.
What is expected from Deep Planning proposals?
Develop robust, adaptive, scalable planning algorithms for open-world or uncertain real-time environments, including hierarchical and contingency planning, continual re-planning, and approaches that handle uncertainty with explainability and formal guarantees.
What is meant by Deep Reasoning in this call?
Moving beyond statistical pattern matching to support causal inference, logical reasoning, context-aware or commonsense decision-making, reconciling multiple information sources, and providing transparent, explainable rationales aligned with human values.
What is the expected impact of the DeepRAP portfolio?
Advance scientific state-of-the-art; build a robust, interoperable, application-driven community; position Europe for trustworthy cognitive AI leadership; support sovereignty and competitiveness in key sectors; and contribute to the ambitions of the AI Act and...
What is the main objective of the DeepRAP Challenge?
To significantly improve AI systems' Reasoning, Abstraction, and Planning (RAP) capabilities and move beyond current deep learning and reinforcement learning limitations by exploring novel or combined approaches inspired by various fields.
What is the Seal of Excellence and how does the Sovereignty (STEP) Seal relate?
A Seal of Excellence is awarded when a proposal meets evaluation criteria but is not recommended for funding due to budget limits. If submitted under STEP-relevant Challenges, a project recommended as GO or a NO-GO with Seal of Excellence will also be awarded...
What joint portfolio activities will selected projects engage in?
Projects will lead or engage in activities on interoperability, benchmark development, common pilots, multiagent integration, application shaping with stakeholders, and ethical and societal alignment.
What priority is given in case of ex-aequo scores?
Female-led companies will be given priority in the case of ex-aequo scores.
What submission limit applies to repeated unsuccessful EIC Accelerator proposals?
From 1 January 2024, after three unsuccessful submissions of the same or improved proposal by the same legal entity to the EIC Accelerator, the applicant may not apply again under Horizon Europe.
Which cognitive capabilities should proposals address under DeepRAP?
Proposals should address one or more of: Deep Reasoning, Deep Abstraction, and Deep Planning.
Which technological approaches are particularly encouraged?
Neuro-symbolic approaches combining neural networks and symbolic reasoning are particularly encouraged, as well as combinations of existing techniques or entirely new frameworks inspired by neuroscience, biology, physics, philosophy and other fields.
With which EU initiatives should projects develop synergies?
Projects should develop synergies with AI Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs), EBRAINS, Resource for AI Science in Europe (RAISE), the AI-on-Demand Platform, and the Quantum Flagship.
Can proposals include smart interoperability with energy networks?
Yes. Proposals may include smart interoperability solutions for electricity, heating and cooling network integration, reversible heating and cooling infrastructures, and cold-to-power solutions recovering waste heat and cold from industrial processes, data cen...
How else can the need for mechanical cooling be mitigated?
By nature-based solutions, passive cooling techniques, the use of natural energy, behavioural changes, and other demand-based technologies.
What alternative cooling methods are being developed or researched?
Alternatives include thermochemical methods (e.g. sorption), solid-state solutions (e.g. magnetic, electrochemical, thermo-acoustic, thermo-elastic), and other approaches under active development.
What are the expected outcomes and impacts of clean cooling projects?
Projects should provide proofs of concept for unconventional approaches that convincingly impact energy consumption, emissions and costs, contribute to EU technological leadership, improve building comfort and health, increase operational security of computing...
What are the objectives for innovations in the AEC digitalisation Challenge?
To realise disruptive solutions in one or more areas—computational design, digital fabrication and alternative materials—aiming to reduce embodied CO2 emissions, with innovations being at least as effective in reducing operational carbon emissions as the techn...
What generation approaches for clean cooling are eligible under the Challenge?
Generation approaches integrating renewable energy, waste heat/cold harvesting, passive and radiative cooling, thermochemical and hybrid heat pumps, heat transformers, waste heat recovery and heat pipes are eligible.
What is the goal of the Responsible Electronics Challenge?
To discover environmentally friendly electronic materials and processes that reduce environmental impact and the need for critical raw materials, applying life-cycle thinking and developing materials/processes suitable for unconventional devices and IoT while...
What is the most widely applied method for air-conditioning and refrigeration?
Vapour compression is the most widely applied method for air-conditioning and refrigeration.
What is the overall goal of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge on clean cooling?
To advance scientific knowledge and technological development of novel, clean and efficient cooling solutions that underpin a 'cold economy' vision.