AI Challenge 2025
EITThe AI Challenge 2025 is a Europe-wide initiative from the EIT AI Community to accelerate the deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions across industries and public sectors.
We're calling on cities, corporates, public institutions and other stakeholders to submit their pressing data- and AI-related challenges and on innovative startups ready to solve them. A matchmaking engine to put Europe's brightest minds to work on your most complex problems!
We’re scouting for challenges that require smart, scalable AI-driven solutions. You can be from the public or private sector, working locally or globally. Some of the focus areas for 2025 include:
- Data spaces for cities, health, and manufacturing
- AI and 5G technologies
- AI for drones
- Synthetic data & anonymisation
- Generative AI applications
- Process optimisation & logistics
This is not an exhaustive list and other topics also can be applied.
Why Join?
We are living through an exponential era of technological change. Yet, innovation is often fragmented. To thrive, Europe must bring together value chains, domains, and stakeholders, and turn knowledge into action.
As a challenge owner you:
- Get access to Europe’s most promising AI startups and scaleups
- Discover fresh, deployable solutions tailored to your needs
- Position your organisation as a leader in AI-driven innovation
- Contribute to shaping a strong, connected European AI ecosystem
As a startup/solution provider by submitting your solution, you gain first-hand exposure to concrete AI problems faced by SMEs, corporations, and cities, and more:
- Structured matchmaking & guided collaboration
- High visibility across the European AI ecosystem
- Cash prize of €5000 to continue the development of the solution and/or support the PoC with the challenger company
- Access to the exclusive AI Founders Club - a curated portfolio of support services offered by the EIT AI Community
Join our info session on October 3, 2025 and register here.
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