EIT Manufacturing South East, dedicated to fostering innovation and growth in the manufacturing sector, launches the AI-IGNITE open call that seeks to promote Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation across the South East region.
AI-IGNITE 2024 is one of the initiatives that emerged following the collaboration agreement between EIT Manufacturing South East and the Greek Satellite of AI-MATTERS with the goal of enhancing the competitiveness of the local business ecosystem by promoting the testing and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
The AI-IGNITE 2024 open call will award the five (5) top companies positioned for significant growth within the AI landscape, with:
A financial award of €10,000 per beneficiary from EIT Manufacturing South East for implementing their development plans
A ticket of up to €40.000 of in-kind contribution from the AI-MATTERS Greek Satellite [an entity dedicated to advancing the adoption of AI technologies in manufacturing and related industries] covering the required infrastructure and expertise to design, engineer, deploy, and evaluate the beneficiaries’ solutions in their Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEF)
A growth package of up to three (3) months of dedicated Access-to-Market (A2M) support services from EIT Manufacturing South East Business Development & Innovation team
Call Details
Submission deadline: 9 September 2024
Final Event Day: 3 October 2024
Call guidelines: https://www.eitmanufacturing.eu/calls/aignite-call-2024/
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 739578
This project has received funding from the Government of the Republic of Cyprus through the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development