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Poland's NCBR Opens INNOGLOBO AI Call With PLN 25 Million for International AI Research
Poland's National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) has announced the sixth edition of its INNOGLOBO program, this time devoted entirely to AI. The pool is PLN 25 million, and applications are open until 12 February 2027.
Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju, NCBR (Poland's National Centre for Research and Development), is putting PLN 25 million into international R&D projects in artificial intelligence. The INNOGLOBO AI call is the sixth edition of the program and the first limited to AI.
Who can apply
Polish companies, research organizations and consortia can apply for support. Projects must be carried out in cooperation with foreign partners.
Detailed requirements for partners are best checked in the call rules on the NCBR website.
What can be researched
Projects must cover industrial research and experimental development work. An application has to address at least one of four thematic areas.
The first is the development of AI technologies, including data processing and edge computing, meaning computation at the edge of the network. The second is the use of AI in medicine and biotechnology.
The third area is AI in cybersecurity. The fourth is the use of the technology in industry and automation.
A change in format
Unlike the five previous editions, which supported 59 projects in total, the current call focuses exclusively on artificial intelligence.
The program's assumptions were presented at an NCBR conference titled "How to do science in the age of AI. Artificial intelligence as a tool for international cooperation."
NCBR head Prof. Jerzy Małachowski noted that the development of artificial intelligence requires cooperation that goes beyond the boundaries of individual disciplines, institutions and countries.
What it means for companies
Up to PLN 2 million per project is modest compared with the cost of training large models, so the call appears aimed at specialized applications and collaboration with foreign teams. The sources we used do not give the funding rate as a percentage, so it is worth checking in the call rules on the NCBR website.
