DeepRAP: Deep Reasoning, Abstraction & Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI Systems
- Funder
- European Commission · Horizon Europe · European Innovation Council
- Award amount
- €500,000 – €4,000,000
- Deadline
- October 28, 2026
- Eligible countries
- European Union, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Israel, Global
Summary
Open EU call topic HORIZON-EIC-2026-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03 · HORIZON EIC Grants. Part of call HORIZON-EIC-2026-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01: EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2026. Next deadline 2026-10-28. Topic page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-EIC-2026-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03
Expected Impact: The resulting portfolio will not only advance the scientific state-of-the-art but also build a robust, interoperable, and application-driven community, positioning Europe at the forefront of trustworthy cognitive AI. It should also lay the foundations for future European leadership in safe, human-centric cognitive AI, supporting sovereignty and competitiveness in key sectors. It will support the ambitions of the AI Act[1] and the European approach to Artificial Intelligence[2]. Expected Outcome: Ambitious proposals put forward under this call will deliver: - Models and/or architectures that handle multimodal data and knowledge, uncertainty, and can be trained and deployed with constrained computational resources - Provable trustworthiness mechanisms ensuring explainability, transparency, fairness, risk evaluation, security and alignment with ethical and legal standards, including fundamental rights and the EU AI Act, and - Demonstrate the developed capabilities integrated in a cognitive AI system (reaching TRL4) performing complex real-world tasks (e.g., scientific discovery, decision support, problem solving) as well as simulations at a scale.
In addition, proposals will: - Propose new methods and metrics for evaluating and certifying reasoning and trustworthiness in AI as well as the use of the computational resources - Follow the FAIR principles ensuring all data, models, and results are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable to maximise transparency, reproducibility, and impact, and - Develop synergies with EU initiatives such as TEFs (AI Testing and Experimentation Facilities)[3],…
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