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The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking's AI Factories give European AI companies free access to some of the largest GPU systems in the world, and the Industrial Innovation access route is the one built specifically for SMEs and startups rather than for academic consortia. It runs three tracks of increasing scale.
Playground Access provides limited entry-level resources on a first-in-first-out basis with access granted within two working days and onboarding support for users new to HPC - it exists to let a team benchmark and port before committing to a proposal. Fast Lane Access serves experienced HPC users needing up to 50,000 GPU hours.
Large Scale Access covers applications requiring more than 50,000 GPU hours, allocated for up to one year, with cut-off dates running through 4 January 2027.
All three are open and free of charge to AI SMEs including startups pursuing innovation, which is the critical distinction from the separate AI for Science and Collaborative Projects mode aimed at publicly funded research; other industrial users can still access the machines but on commercial pay-per-use terms.
For a European AI startup, this is close to the largest non-dilutive compute resource available anywhere, and the practical route in is almost always Playground first, then a Large Scale proposal built on the benchmarking data that Playground produced. Applications are submitted through the EuroHPC access portal.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: The Industrial Innovation access modes are open and free of charge to AI SMEs, including startups, established in EU Member States or countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme, that are pursuing innovation activities. Other industrial organisations may access the AI Factories through commercial pay-per-use arrangements rather than free allocations. Three tracks apply: Playground Access for SMEs, startups and entry-level users, offering limited resources, rapid first-in-first-out access within two working days and onboarding services, with applications accepted at any time; Fast Lane Access for experienced HPC users requiring up to 50,000 GPU hours; and Large Scale Access for applications requiring more than 50,000 GPU hours, allocated for a maximum of one year with multiple cut-off dates running through 4 January 2027. A parallel AI for Science and Collaborative Projects mode serves publicly funded research and Horizon Europe or Digital Europe Programme projects and has different eligibility. Awards are allocations of GPU time on EuroHPC systems and AI Factories, not cash. Applications are made through access.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu. Confirm the current open tracks, cut-off dates, GPU-hour ceilings and SME definition on the EuroHPC JU AI Factories access modes page before applying, as individual tracks are periodically opened and temporarily closed. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows this is an in-kind award of supercomputer time rather than cash, and it is free of charge to eligible AI SMEs and startups, so no euro figure is published. amount_min and amount_max are estimated from the published GPU-hour thresholds at commercial cloud rates: Fast Lane Access grants up to 50,000 GPU hours, which at roughly 2 US dollars per GPU hour corresponds to about 100,000 dollars of equivalent compute, and Large Scale Access grants more than 50,000 GPU hours for up to one year, with allocations on systems such as LUMI, Leonardo and MareNostrum5 reaching into the high hundreds of thousands of GPU hours - hence amount_max of 2,000,000 dollars as an equivalent-value ceiling. Treat these as valuation estimates for comparison against cash compute grants, not as money the applicant receives. Playground Access sits below Fast Lane and provides limited entry-level resources with access within two working days, which is the right starting point for a team that has never run on an HPC system. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for EuroHPC JU AI Factories Industrial Innovation Access (Playground, Fast Lane and Large Scale) for AI Startups and SMEs are due January 4, 2027. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
EuroHPC JU AI Factories Industrial Innovation Access (Playground, Fast Lane and Large Scale) for AI Startups and SMEs is funded by European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
This is the EuroHPC access mode built specifically for AI workloads, and it is the most direct route for European researchers who need serious compute without a Horizon Europe grant behind them. Allocations are made in node hours across four petascale and pre-exascale systems - LUMI in Finland, Leonardo in Italy, MareNostrum5 in Spain and MeluXina in Luxembourg - for six-month access periods. The stated scope is explicit about modern AI: ethical artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cutting-edge foundation models and generative AI including large language models, which means training and fine-tuning runs are in scope rather than being squeezed into a traditional simulation-oriented HPC framing. Eligibility is deliberately wide. All scientific users qualify whether or not their work is funded by national or European programmes, as do public sector users, and industrial users participating in EU-funded research and innovation projects such as Horizon Europe or the Digital Europe Programme. The one important boundary: industrial users not involved in an EU research project are directed instead to the AI for Industrial Innovation access modes, so a commercial applicant with no EU project affiliation should check which door they are meant to use before drafting. The call operates on rolling cut-offs rather than a single deadline, with 2026 cut-offs at 27 February, 30 April, 30 June, 31 August, 30 October and 11 December, each at 10:00 CET. That cadence means an unsuccessful application can be revised and resubmitted roughly two months later, and a team that misses one window is never waiting long for the next. As with all compute schemes, no money is awarded - staff and data costs must come from elsewhere.
EuroHPC JU Large Scale Access to AI Factories for Industrial AI Innovation with Continuously Open GPU Allocations is sponsored by European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). The EuroHPC JU Large Scale Access call provides industrial users with rapid access to AI Factories' GPU compute resources across European supercomputers (including MareNostrum5, LUMI, Leonardo, JUPITER, and others) for high-impact, high-gain innovative AI research.
The EuroHPC JU Large Scale Access call provides industrial users with rapid access to AI Factories' GPU compute resources across European supercomputers (including MareNostrum5, LUMI, Leonardo, JUPITER, and others) for high-impact, high-gain innovative AI research. Cutoffs are rolling and bi-weekly through 2026 and into 2027 (example cutoffs: 30 Jan 2026, 16 Feb 2026, 27 Feb 2026, continuing through 4 Jan 2027). Minimum 50,000 GPU hours per proposal. Industry users requiring large compute for training foundation models, fine-tuning multimodal models, or running large inference experiments can submit on a continuously open basis. Academic and public-sector users should apply via the separate 'AI for Science' access mode. EuroHPC JU is overseeing 19 AI Factories and 13 AI Factory Antennas across Europe to provide free, customized support to SMEs and startups. Strong fit for European industrial AI labs and SMEs needing sovereign EU compute for training and serving large models.
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