CEA AI Rising Talents Grant

The CEA AI Rising Talents program offers you a tremendous opportunity to bring your ideas to life and lead your own research project for the benefit of industry and society. This program is part of the PEPR IA (Priority Research Program in Artificial Intelligence) and complements the call for chairs of attractiveness of the national priority research program in AI (PEPR IA) by targeting the technological and strategic challenges of the CEA’s List Institute (CEA-List).

As part of the PEPR IA program, your research project will be conducted over three to four years within a CEA host team. It will receive funding commensurate with its ambition. You will also have privileged access to the research infrastructure available at CEA-List.

The research grant aims to strengthen the potential and visibility of researchers who already have a remarkable research background after completing a thesis in France or abroad and who have significant international experience, particularly in supervising students and leading scientific projects.

Applications for the CEA AI Rising Talents program can be submitted from October 1, 2025, until March 31, 2026.

Pre-selection will take place in mid-April 2026, and auditions will begin between late April and early June 2026.

Link to the call on the CEA website : CEA AI Rising Talents Grant

Contact : ai-rising-talents-contact@cea.fr