NVIDIA Partners With European Commission to Expand Compute and AI Resources for Scientists
NVIDIA has joined the European Commission’s AI in Science Enablers Initiative, providing open models, free training, and support for 35 new supercomputers to equip over 3 million European researchers.
At the AI in Science Summit in Dublin, the European Commission announced the launch of the AI in Science Enablers Initiative. Part of the broader Resource for AI Science in Europe (RAISE) framework, the initiative aims to bring private-sector technology, compute, and technical expertise directly to Europe’s scientific research community.
NVIDIA is joining the initiative with concrete commitments spanning open-source models, training resources, cloud access for startups, and major hardware infrastructure expansion across the continent.
Open Models and Scientific Frameworks
As part of its pledge, NVIDIA is opening access to its technological portfolio, which currently includes over 250 open models, 250 open datasets, and more than 1,400 open-source software projects available on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub.
Researchers will be able to utilize reasoning capabilities via the NVIDIA Nemotron open model family, along with specialized domain software. Key tools available include the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit for biology, NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo libraries, NVIDIA Earth-2 climate models, and NVIDIA ALCHEMI NIM microservices designed for chemistry and material science applications.
Free Courseware for Scientific Skill-Building
To help researchers and universities build deep learning expertise, the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute has launched a new open-source courseware hub.
The modular course materials cover accelerated computing and deep learning. They are freely downloadable, openly licensed, and require no fees, enrollment, or deadlines. Designed to be adaptable for university curricula, developer events, and supercomputing center bootcamps, the materials serve as a bridge to formal NVIDIA technical certifications.
Expanding Sovereign Compute Access for Startups
NVIDIA is working with European national AI factories and cloud infrastructure providers to establish local compute access for startups and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Key regional partnerships include:
- France: AI2F became the first AI factory to collaborate with the NVIDIA Inception startup program during a four-month initiative.
- Spain: The BSC AI Factory is rolling out a full accelerator program following a pilot phase, aiming to establish self-sustaining AI ventures in Spain and across Europe.
- Sweden: The Sweden AI Factory—one of 19 EuroHPC-funded AI factories across Europe—is opening its infrastructure and technical expertise to Inception startups across autonomous systems, gaming, and life sciences.
- Supercomputing Centers: EuroHPC facilities, including CINECA in Italy and JSC in Germany, are offering free access to NVIDIA GPU infrastructure for academic research.
NVIDIA is also supporting community hackathons. This month, the company is co-organizing a European AI hackathon alongside Austrian Scientific Computing, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, and The Cyprus Institute for the Pharos-CY project.
Mass Supercomputing Buildout Across Europe
NVIDIA is currently powering the largest single-year expansion of supercomputing capacity in European history.
A total of 35 supercomputers powered by NVIDIA technology are currently under development across the continent. Once completed, the new systems will provide next-generation AI infrastructure to more than 3 million researchers, accelerating projects in drug discovery, climate modeling, energy, and engineering.
