Regulation ·
Call for projects: "Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on artificial intelligence"
Original title, in French: “Appel à projets : « Projet important d’intérêt européen commun (PIIEC) sur l’intelligence artificielle »”
- Publication
- Bpifrance (France)
- Author
- Unsigned
- Published on
- 9 September 2026 · read in the publisher's feed
Summary
Bpifrance has published a call for projects to identify companies or research organisations wishing to join the Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on artificial intelligence, as a direct participant or an associated partner. Applicants must develop effective cross-border collaborations with other European players; simple customer-supplier relationships are not eligible. Projects must have a minimum expenditure base of €100 million for direct participants, €10 million for associated partner companies and €4 million for public research organisations. State support may take the form of repayable advances or grants, with a mandatory claw-back mechanism above €50 million in aid. Applications must be submitted on the Bpifrance platform by 9 September 2026.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Bpifrance →Figures cited
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100 M€
Minimum expenditure base for a direct participant applicant to the AI IPCEI
Companies applying for direct participant status, France
« 100M€ pour les candidats au statut de participant direct au PIIEC-IA ; »
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10 M€
Minimum expenditure base for a company applying for associated partner status
Companies applying for associated partner status, France
« 10M€ pour les entreprises candidates au statut de partenaire associé. »
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4 M€
Minimum expenditure base for a public research organisation applying for associated partner status
Public research organisations applying for associated partner status, France
« 4M€ pour les organismes de recherche publique candidats au statut de partenaire associé. »
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50 M€
Aid threshold above which a claw-back mechanism is mandatory
AI IPCEI projects, France
« Les projets dont le montant d’aides serait supérieur ou égal à 50 M€ d’aides feront nécessairement l’objet d’un mécanisme de récupération de l’aide (dit mécanisme de « claw back » ). »
Classification
- Country
- France
- Company size
- Large companies
- Industries
- All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- Bpifrance (cited)
- Keywords
- public funding, ipcei, ai funding, france 2030, european collaboration, artificial intelligence
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Bpifrance. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.