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The first phase of the call for projects to benefit from support from the ENACT engineers pool is launched.
In order to support research work involving AI engineering, the IA Grand Est ENACT cluster is setting up a pool of engineers. In total, 13 engineers distributed across the Lorraine and Alsace sites (7 affiliated with the University of Lorraine and 6 with the University of Strasbourg) will be mobilized to support projects, from defining the need to delivering the deliverables. Ultimately, this support will help disseminate the developed skills within the cluster to the socio-economic fabric.
During this first phase of opening, this initiative is aimed at researchers from the member laboratories of the cluster. A limited number of projects will be selected to receive support in the form of engineer time (up to 6 months) in a co-construction process of the pool’s operation.
The second phase of this call, scheduled to start in September, will expand the initiative to the entire scientific community in Lorraine and Alsace, based on the lessons learned from phase 1.
How to benefit from this support?
- Selection criteria:
- Alignment with the objectives of the IA Grand Est ENACT clusterConsistency with the three strategic themes of the cluster (Natural Language Processing and large multimodal model, AI for engineering and scientific discovery, Digital health)
- Potential impact of pool support.
- Prioritization will be given to proposals meeting the following criteria:
- Increasing the number of researchers, professors, ERC, international publications and copublications, patents, licenses, startups, and students in AI.
- Driving force in the France-Germany collaboration and at the European level.
- Learning (training, continuous learning, fine-tuning, etc.) of new generative AI models and large neural models.
- Application to one of the three cluster axes
- Collaborative research projects with a company will also be taken into account within a dedicated selection process.
- Request format: Free, maximum one page. All proposals, regardless of their level of maturity, will be considered; however, the following information will facilitate the selection process:
- Name, position, laboratory, and research team of the project leaderTargeted theme(s)Estimation of requested engineer timeBrief description including the scientific context, objectives, and expected deliverables
- Possible scientific and technical appendix
- Requests must be sent to the following address: enact-pool-inges-contact@univ-lorraine.fr. They will be evaluated by the pool management committee.
- Deadline for submission: April 30.
