Digital Europe Programme AI-Powered Medical Image Screening for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease

Digital Europe Programme AI-Powered Medical Image Screening for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease is sponsored by European Commission (Digital Europe Programme). This Digital Europe Programme call funds the deployment of AI-powered image screening tools in medical centres across the European Union for cancer and cardiovascular disease detection. Part of a €63.

Part of a €63.2 million package of Digital Europe Programme calls published on April 21, 2026, this specific call funds training programs for advanced digital skills across the European Union. The focus areas include artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and cloud computing skills development. The call aims to address the growing AI skills gap in Europe by funding large-scale training initiatives that upskill the European workforce in cutting-edge AI technologies. Projects should create reusable training curricula, certification frameworks, and hands-on learning environments. This is part of the European Commission's broader digital strategy to build European AI talent and reduce dependence on non-EU AI expertise.

The ARM Institute's 27-01 Core-Funded Technology Project Call is the current cycle of the institute's recurring robotics funding programme, and this round is framed explicitly around Robotics and Physical AI Defense Manufacturing Solutions. ARM is a Manufacturing USA institute funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense with a consortium of more than 450 industry, academic and government members, and its project calls exist to push robotics, autonomy and AI into U.S. manufacturing rather than to fund basic research. The 27-01 call targets defense manufacturing needs including high-mix castings and forgings, naval vessels, unmanned systems, munitions, and rapid production expansion, with a strong preference for dual-use technology that also benefits the broader U.S. manufacturing base. The preceding 26-01 call, a useful guide to scale and topic style, made roughly USD 2,000,000 available with a USD 500,000 per-project cap and named topic areas of Multi-Modal Inputs for AI Robotics in Manufacturing, Rapid Re-Tasking and Robot Agility, Multi-Robot and Multi-Human Collaboration and Supervised Autonomy, Adaptive Real-Time Path Planning and Control, and Mobile Robotics. The single most important eligibility constraint is membership: only ARM Institute members may submit, so non-members intending to apply need to start the membership process well ahead of the deadlines. The process is two-stage - concept papers are due 16 September 2026 and final submissions by 2 December 2026 at 5:00 PM ET, with a target project start on or before 1 February 2027 and project end by 31 January 2028, which implies a tightly scoped twelve-month execution plan rather than a multi-year research programme.