European Network of AI Excellence Centres (ELISE) is a network of artificial intelligence research hubs where the best European researchers in Machine Learning and AI work together to attract talent, foster research through collaboration and inspire and be inspired by industry and society.
Sponsoring Agency: ELISE
Type of Fund: Grant
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/01/2021
Size of the Fund: USD $50,000 to $500,000
European Network of AI Excellence Centres (ELISE) is a network of artificial intelligence research hubs where the best European researchers in Machine Learning and AI work together to attract talent, foster research through collaboration and inspire and be inspired by industry and society.
ELISE aims to support SMEs and start-ups by:
• Incorporating SMEs and start-ups into their machine learning [ML] ecosystem,
• facilitating and accelerating a broad uptake of machine learning technologies by SMEs and start-ups,
• ensuring that every SME and start-up has access to ML technologies and expertise within "working distance".
ELISE builds upon the ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) network. ELISE Consortium is composed of 23 organizations and coordinated by the Aalto University.
Focus Areas
• Geometric Deep Learning: graph, group and gauge convolutions
• Robust Machine Learning
• Interactive Learning and Interventional Representations
• Machine Learning and Computer Vision
• Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap
• Human-centric Machine Learning
• Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems
• Quantum and physics based Machine Learning
• Natural Intelligence
• Health
• Machine Learning in Earth and Climate Sciences
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Multimedia / multimodal information
• Information retrieval
• Explainability and Fairness in Data Mining
• Symbolic Machine Learning
Benefits
• ELISE will select 16 SMEs and startups that develop novel AI-based services or applications with the support of a Scientific Advisor in one of the ELISE/ELLIS focus areas (mentioned above).
• Selected companies will enter the 6-month program and receive:
o Up to € 60.000 (lump sum) to develop novel AI-based applications in one of ELISE focus area and
o Visibility through ELISE online channels and events, and dissemination in the ELLIS community
Eligibility Criteria
• ELISE is looking for the following type of applicants:
o SMEs (including startups)
• Applicants, at the moment of applying, must be registered legal entities established in:
o The Member States of the European Union and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or
o Associated Countries to H2020 or
o The United Kingdom.
• The ELISE partners, or their affiliates or employees, are NOT considered as eligible applicants and can NOT apply for funding.
Types of Activities
ELISE is looking for projects based on AI applications that address the development and implementation of technology and systems in at least one focus area listed above. Focus areas are based on ELISE/ELLIS research programs but are not limited to them as long as the proposals will address high-impact societal and economic challenges using machine learning.
More information at: https://elise.fundingbox.com/
Eligible Countries:
Albania, Anguilla, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Indian Ocean Territory, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Montserrat, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Norway, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Georgia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands, British, Wallis and Futuna
