The European Commission launched the RAISE pledging initiative at the European AI in Science Summit in Dublin on 15 October 2026. RAISE, the Resource for AI Science in Europe, is intended to bring private-sector and philanthropic resources to European researchers working across AI and science, beyond what the Commission says public funding alone can provide.
Key points
- Organisations joining RAISE must pledge sustained support for AI in science beyond their direct commercial interests.
- The Commission lists seven initial contributors, including Nvidia, Mistral and Google DeepMind.
- The Commission also presented revised guidance for researchers on generative AI, including agentic AI.
- The initiative will be reviewed annually, and its pledges and progress will be presented at future editions of the European AI in Science Summit.
RAISE asks organisations for sustained support
The campaign brings together contributions in kind from industry and philanthropic organisations. The Commission lists access to frontier AI models, computing capacity, research software licences, data and training among the resources it seeks. It also wants the campaign to connect researchers with private organisations for collaboration and matching opportunities. Those are proposed routes for support, rather than a single allocation of public funding to researchers.
An organisation seeking to participate must make a concrete pledge that demonstrates sustained support for AI in science beyond its direct commercial interests, according to the Commission. A contribution can take the form of money, computing infrastructure, AI models, datasets, cloud services or software licences. Scholarships, fellowships and training programmes also qualify. The range matters for research groups whose work may depend on access to a model or computing facility rather than a grant alone.
The Commission says it will review the initiative annually and present pledges and progress at future editions of the European AI in Science Summit. RAISE forms part of the European Strategy for AI in Science, which the Commission launched in October 2025 to help researchers use AI and strengthen European scientific and technological capacity. That strategy contributes to the AI Continent Action Plan.
Seven contributors include Mistral and CERN’s partner
The Commission names the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Nvidia, Elsevier, Sanofi, Frontiers, Mistral and Google DeepMind as the initial organisations to make commitments. The campaign remains open to further contributions. Their pledges cover different kinds of support: AI Affairs has reported Elsevier’s pledge of 4,000 AI licences and €1m a year to European science, and Google’s offer of frontier models to up to 200 European researchers and $3 million in credits.
As part of the initiative, Mistral AI and CERN launched a partnership to develop a physics foundation model. The Commission says it is set to become the largest foundation model in physics. That description is a projection about the partners’ proposed model, alongside a campaign that also accepts pledges of infrastructure, software and training.
Nvidia offers access through European AI factories
In its account of the commitment, Nvidia says it is offering access to accelerated tools, models and platforms, as well as compute, cloud resources, data, skills training and technical support. The company also includes collaborative projects and pilots, support for researchers, and assistance for startups. Those offers put some of the campaign’s broad categories into the terms of an individual contributor’s pledge.
Nvidia says it is working with cloud infrastructure partners and national AI factories in France, Spain and Sweden to create routes for startups and small and medium-sized enterprises to use sovereign European compute and services. In France, it identifies AI2F as a collaborator with its Inception startup programme. It says the BSC AI Factory in Spain has run a pilot and is rolling out an accelerator programme, while Sweden AI Factory has announced a collaboration to make its infrastructure and expertise available to Inception startups and smaller businesses.
The company also points to its newly launched open-source courseware hub. Nvidia says its accelerated-computing and deep-learning materials can be downloaded without fees, enrolment or a deadline, and adapted for university courses and training at supercomputing centres. Access to technical skills is part of its offer alongside access to hardware and models.
Commission updates guidance on agentic AI research
At the Dublin summit, the Commission presented an updated version of its Living Guidelines on the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Research. The revision covers agentic AI and is intended to guide researchers and research organisations on responsible and transparent use while maintaining scientific integrity. It accompanies a pledging campaign designed to put more AI resources within researchers’ reach.
The Commission and the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union jointly organised the summit. Its programme includes work on health, physics and mathematics, data, culture and creativity, AI technologies and policy for AI in science. The Commission also launched the RAISE Hub, RAISE Forum and RAISE Observatory as connected places for information, resources, communities and evidence on AI in science in Europe.
