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SPARK ("Accelerating Planning and Approval through AI") is a German initiative developed by the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization and financed via the Climate and Transformation Fund. It provides agentic AI tools that accelerate complex planning and approval procedures by analysing application files, checking completeness and plausibility, and preparing decision proposals, while final decisions remain with staff. The tools were released as open source in April 2026.

The Budget Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament has approved an investment of € 270 million for the construction of a high-performance computing center at FAU. A new building for the IT infrastructure and a new office building are being constructed, with groundbreaking planned for 2026.

A EUR 125M pan-European challenge competition run by Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND), funding up to 10 teams for 24 months to build European Frontier AI labs, with up to 3 winners positioned to raise EUR 1B scale-up rounds.

The Network of German Centres of Excellence for AI Research is comprised of six leading research institutions in the field of Artificial Intelligence: BIFOLD, DFKI, MCML, LAMARR, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig and TUE.AI Center. Together, they work towards strengthening Germany as a top-tier location for AI technologies as well as increasing the national and international visibility of German AI research.

Funded by the BMWK, this technology programme aims to facilitate the effective adoption of generative AI in businesses by showcasing practical use cases in areas such as knowledge management, maintenance, healthcare, and production. The programme is specifically designed to address the unique needs and opportunities of SMEs, ensuring that AI solutions are both relevant and accessible to them.

A EuroHPC-backed AI Factory in Germany that supplies HPC/AI infrastructure, engineering support and services to researchers, SMEs and industry for large-scale model training and deployment.

Coordinated by the AI Advisory Centre (BeKI), AI Guidelines are being developed to ensure a harmonised inter-ministerial approach to the use of AI in public administration. These guidelines promote a value-based approach to AI deployment and offer practical guidance for both employees utilising AI systems and the respective administrative units responsible for providing these systems.

Launched by the BMI, this framework focuses on an opportunity-oriented and responsible approach to AI within the Ministry and its affiliates. It outlines guiding principles, such as human-centred design, transparency, and fairness, and identifies critical factors along the AI value chain that contribute to successful AI use in public administration. Similarly, the Foreign Office (AA) has adopted an AI-Charter.

An AI Factory built around Europe’s JUPITER exascale supercomputer (Forschungszentrum Jülich) that enables industry and researchers to access exascale compute for AI R&D and industrial pilots.