NVIDIA joined the European Commission’s AI in Science Enablers Initiative on Thursday, pledging access to scientific models, courseware, and computing resources for European researchers and startups.
The European Commission launched the campaign at the AI in Science Summit in Dublin under its RAISE framework. Ekaterina Zaharieva, European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, said the partnership turns Europe’s scientific ambitions into "concrete commitments that give researchers access to the tools, expertise and resources they need to innovate."
Researchers can access more than 250 open models, 250 datasets, and over 1,400 open-source projects released by NVIDIA on Hugging Face and GitHub. Available tools include the Nemotron model family, BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, PhysicsNeMo libraries, Earth-2 models, and ALCHEMI NIM microservices.
The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute launched a new open-source courseware hub covering accelerated computing and deep learning. The modular materials are freely downloadable and openly licensed, requiring no enrollment, fees, or completion deadlines.
National AI factories in France, Spain, and Sweden are coordinating with the NVIDIA Inception program to support startups. France’s AI2F completed a four-month collaboration, while Spain’s BSC AI Factory is rolling out a full accelerator program following an initial pilot. In northern Europe, the Sweden AI Factory opened its infrastructure to startups working in life sciences, materials, autonomous systems, and gaming.
EuroHPC supercomputing centers, including CINECA and JSC, are offering academic teams and startups free access to NVIDIA GPU systems. NVIDIA is also co-organizing an AI hackathon this month for Pharos-CY alongside Austrian Scientific Computing, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, and The Cyprus Institute.
European facilities are currently building 35 supercomputers powered by NVIDIA. The company stated the systems will support over 3 million researchers across the continent.
