To make the EU the place where AI excellence thrives from the lab to the market, the European Union is setting up world-class Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) for AI.Together with Member States, the Commission is co-funding the TEFs which are specialised large-scale reference sites open to all technology providers across Europe to test and experiment at scale state-of-the art AI solutions, including both soft-and hardware products and services, e.g. robots, in real-world environme
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Sectorial AI Testing and Experimentation Facilities under the Digital Europe Programme
Initiative overview
The initiative has the following objectives:To support AI developers to bring trustworthy AI to the market more efficiently and facilitate its uptake in Europe.To offer a combination of physical and virtual facilities, in which technology providers can get support to test their latest AI-based soft-/hardware technologies in real-world environments. This will include support for full integration, testing and experimentation of latest AI-based technologies to solve issues/improve solutions in a given application sector, including validation and demonstration.To contribute to the implementation of the Artificial Intelligence Act by supporting regulatory sandboxes in cooperation with competent national authorities for supervised testing and experimentation.The selected TEFs projects started on January 1st 2023. The 5-year projects are funded with a total sum of 220.000.000 Euro. They focus on the following high-impact sectors: Agri-Food: project agrifoodTEF Healthcare: project TEF-Health Manufacturing: project AI-MATTERS Smart Cities & Communities: project Citcom.AI
