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Agentic Reasoning for the Generative AI-Enabled Cognitive Continuum

Objective

ARGENTIC is a European project that develops a sovereign, trustworthy, and energy-aware ecosystem for agentic AI across the Cloud–Edge–IoT continuum. The project addresses fragmentation in today's AI deployments by delivering a modular reference architecture, SDK, and edge-optimised AI models that ensure workload portability, interoperability, and alignment with EU priorities for sovereignty and trust. ARGENTIC aims to empower autonomous yet human-aligned AI agents that operate across distributed infrastructures while guaranteeing explainability, compliance with the AI Act and GDPR, and measurable reductions in energy consumption compared to cloud-centric baselines. To achieve these goals, ARGENTIC integrates federated learning and knowledge graphs for cross-domain collaboration without raw data sharing, energy-aware orchestration algorithms and swarm/gossip scheduling to optimise inference latency and resource efficiency, human-in-the-loop governance workflows validated by an ethics board to safeguard fairness, oversight, and transparency, and digital twins for real-time monitoring and feedback loops in critical sectors. Validation is carried out through seven large-scale pilots spanning healthcare, energy, marketing, tourism, agriculture, recruitment, and virtual companions. Each pilot provides sector-specific evidence of impact, while a cross-pilot assessment evaluates scalability, social acceptability, and EU-wide applicability. In conclusion, ARGENTIC is a cornerstone initiative to advance sovereign, trustworthy, and energy-efficient agentic AI, ensuring Europe's leadership in the safe deployment of generative and agentic AI across strategic domains.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2025-04

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Coordinator

MAGGIOLI S.P.A.
Net EU contribution
€ 597 500,00
Address
VIA DEL CARPINO 8
47822 SANTARCANGELO DI ROMAGNA
Italy
Region
Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 794 420,00

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