DIGITAL EUROPE – DIGITAL-JU-CHIPS-2026-AI-GFP – 2026

Digital Europe Programme 2021-2027

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70 million euros

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• Total call budget: 70 million euros
• Grant amount: approximately 70 million euros
• Co-financing rate: up to 50% of total eligible costs

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Objectives

• Establish a common European evaluation platform for AI chips and racks, with transparent key performance indicators, workloads, and benchmarks used for selection and procurement decisions of the Chips JU
• Carry out the first pilot deployments of validated European AI computing systems for European sovereign partitions of the AI infrastructure
• Structure collaboration between buyers and suppliers, supporting the deployment, integration, and optimization of European AI computing solutions
• Increase the EU's technological sovereignty across the entire AI computing stack for European data centers

Eligibility

• Be a legal entity (public or private organization)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • Member States…