AI Challenge 2025

Description

The EIT AI Community is launching the AI Challenge 2025 to identify and support AI-powered solutions that address key business and societal challenges across multiple sectors defined by industry leaders. The competition is open to spin-offs, startups, and scaleups from across the EU, with a particular emphasis on fostering participation from RIS countries. Solutions may include, but are not limited to, applications in data sharing and interoperability, process optimisation, logistics, generative AI, AI agents, and intelligent systems for the food sector. Selected winners will receive financial support funded by the EIT AI Community and its partners, aimed at accelerating the implementation of their proposed solutions.

Beneficiary & submission

Info session: 3 October 2025 Deadline for proposals: 29 October 2025 (apply via AI Challenge 2025 page) Communication of selected proposals: 7 November 2025 Pitches to the challenge owners: 10 - 13 November 2025 Winner announcements: 14 November 2025 Review of Proof-of-Concept execution: 26 January 2026 For more information, visit the AI Challenge 2025 page.

Further information

The EIT AI Community builds on the success of previous AI Challenges (2022–2024) and ongoing Business Creation activities, serving as a platform to connect innovators with markets, investors, and talent. By strengthening collaboration among stakeholders and leveraging Europe’s collective strengths, the initiative contributes to overcoming fragmentation and positioning Europe at the forefront of the global AI revolution. Participation in the AI Challenge 2025 offers growth opportunities through access to the EIT Digital pan-European network, enabling companies to scale internationally, reinforce local ecosystems, and contribute to a more inclusive and balanced European innovation landscape.