Project description
Driving sustainable AI innovation across Serbian sectors
Bridging the gap between research and deployment is critical for AI innovation. The EU-funded SAIFA project aims to serve as a Serbian national hub to support the full AI life cycle. By leveraging national infrastructure and an integrated AI gateway, SAIFA will provide centralised access to computing resources, datasets and expert consulting for academia and industry. The project focuses on high-impact sectors, including culture and language, environment, health and energy. Through collaboration with European AI factories such as Pharos and IT4LIA, it will enable cross-border validation and benchmarking of applications. Ultimately, SAIFA will work to foster inclusive, responsible and sustainable innovation, strengthening Serbia’s position within the European AI landscape while stimulating vital cross-sector collaboration.
Objective
The Serbian Artificial Intelligence Factory Antenna (SAIFA) aims to become a national hub for AI development and testing, supporting the full lifecycle of AI innovation—from model preparation and dataset curation to deployment. Building on national infrastructure, SAIFA will provide access to computing resources, AI tools, curated datasets, and consulting services for academia, public administration, startups, and industry. It will serve as a one-stop shop that unifies users across sectors through an integrated AI gateway offering centralized access to models, data, training, and support.
SAIFA’s environment is designed to support real-life AI use cases in four key sectors: culture and language, environment, health, and energy. Through collaboration with both public and private stakeholders, SAIFA will deliver tools, reusable workflows, and domain-specific AI solutions. It will integrate seamlessly with existing national HPC infrastructure and the EuroHPC Pharos AI Factory in Greece and Italian IT4LIA AI Factory, enabling validation, benchmarking, and scalable deployment of AI applications across Europe.
To ensure efficient performance, SAIFA will implement containerized computing, Kubernetes-based orchestration, and dynamic resource scheduling. It will also contribute models, datasets, technical documentation, and synthetic data to the Pharos and IT4LIA catalogues, and engage in cross-border training activities.
Ultimately, SAIFA aims to close the gap between AI research and deployment, stimulate cross-sector collaboration, and strengthen Serbia’s role in the European AI landscape by fostering inclusive, responsible, and sustainable AI innovation.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON.2.4.7 - Advanced Computing and Big Data
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HORIZON.2.4.5 - Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2025-AIFA-01
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11020 Beograd
Serbia
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