Horizon Europe: EU Frontier AI Initiative – safe and computationally efficient frontier AI (HORIZON-CL4-2027-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-11)↗
Applications: Closed · closes 18 Mar 2027“As part of the Frontier AI Initiative, which brings together Europe’s leading actors in the field, this topic will support the development of sovereign frontier AI ensuring safety by design.”In its own words: horizon-europe.gouv.fr
Horizon Europe research and innovation call (€44M) under the EU Frontier AI Initiative for frontier AI that is safe by design and computationally efficient, covering misalignment, robustness to jailbreaks and backdoors, interpretability and agentic risks. It opens on 17 November 2026 and closes on 18 March 2027.
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A Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action call (€44M) for consortia to train a sovereign, multimodal, agentic frontier AI model and to research cutting its compute needs and making it safe (misalignment, robustness, interpretability, automated testing). Competitive single-stage call through the EU Funding & Tenders portal, with one grant expected.
Typical grant $44M ($44M–$44M)
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How to apply
- Applications
- Closed · closes 18 Mar 2027
Call opens 17 Nov 2026 - Who can apply
- Academics, For-profits, Organisations
- Where
- EU, UK and other Horizon Europe associated countries.
Open call for consortia: opens 17 Nov 2026, deadline 18 Mar 2027.