Alliance for Language Technologies (CSA)
Deliverables
- An improved EU-wide digital infrastructure for Language Technologies.
- A strong community with the establishment of a coordination framework for the different stakeholders (e.g., Member States and industry) around relevant European, national and private initiatives for large language models.
Through federating Member States efforts, this action will directly contribute to preserving the linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe while effectively implementing the European Common Data Infrastructure and Service MCP?s objectives in the area of language technologies. By providing the necessary data and model adaptation capacities, the action will have a strong impact on the deployment of large language foundation models and their applications such as generative AI. This federated effort will be established around two work strands.
Second work strand - Ecosystem
The second work strand will support the coordination of a European Language Technologies ecosystem. This activity will bring together public and private organisations to provide infrastructure and support to developers and users of large language models, especially SMEs.
Scope:The infrastructure will act as advisory point, offer awareness raising and community building. It will support SMEs to onboard the large language models in their production workflows. The work will be carried out in close collaboration with national initiatives, the Data Spaces, the AI on demand platform, Testing and Experimentation Facilities, Digital Innovation Hubs, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking?s supercomputing facilities and in synergy with the open-source foundation model action. The consortium that will implement this action should be composed by representatives of Member States.
Conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document
5. Evaluation and award:
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document
- Submission and evaluation processes: described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document
Documents
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Updates - News
Call
Feb 29, 2024 12:00:04 AM
The submission session is now available for: DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-IMAGING(DIGITAL-SME), DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-LANGUAGE-01(DIGITAL-SIMPLE), DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-LANGUAGE-02(DIGITAL-CSA), DIGITAL-2024-AI-06-FINETUNE(DIGITAL-SME)