📋 Tender Overview
The European AI-on Demand platform (Aiod) has been extensively developed and now provides extended services in the field of artificial intelligence (KI, English AI for Artificial Intelligence) for research institutions and companies. As a EU flagship initiative, it enables trustworthy access to European resources, tools, data and services via uniform digital infrastructure. The Aiod platform is a cornerstone of the European strategy as part of the AI continent initiative for acceleration of AI innovations. It strengthens the technological sovereignty of Europe with regard to the geopolitical and global AI developments as well as Europes positioning with regard to trustworthiness, transparency and responsibility for AI applications.
The platform pursues a two-track approach to meet both the specific requirements of the European research community and those of the economy: Research: The Aiod platform offers a collection of data sets, powerful AI tools and other resources that drive trustworthy, innovative AI research across Europe. It bundles the results of EU-financed AI projects, makes them found, reusable and usable together and thus contributes to the promotion of a European community of AI developers, researchers and innovators. Economy: The platform also offers market maturity AI tools and services as well as access to computing resources for companies. It supports companies, start-ups and small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) as well as organizations of the public sector in the development, training as well as the efficient and safe use of AI applications. The Aiod platform is developed by two complementary funding projects, which are financed by the EU Commission as part of the Horizont Europa and Digital Europe programs: AI4EROPE (EUR 9 million) is carried out under the direction of the University of Cork (Ireland) and combines 24 partners who jointly develop and expand the Aiod Ecosystem. It runs from June 2022 to December 2025. Deployai (EUR 28 million) is coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IIS, comprises 28 partners from 13 countries and runs from January 2024 to December 2027.
Reading the EU Commission (24.06.2025): Commission Launches Ai Tools On Online Platform for Researchers and Industry Fraunhofer IAIS (24.06.2025): AI-on-Demand platform (AIOD) is expanding the AI Service offer for research and economy
Source:
Fraunhofer Iais, EU Commission
Editor:
25.06.2025
By Julia Arning, VDI Technology Center GmbH
Countries / organizations:
EU
Topics:
Financial support
Information and communication
Networks
Strategy and framework conditions
Economy, markets
