Call for AI Projects

The Paris Peace Forum is holding a targeted Call for AI projects to encourage the use of AI for Public Good, as part of the AI Action Summit held in Paris on February 10-11, 2025, and will be a unique opportunity to move forward your AI project or initiative. In case of selection, you will benefit from international visibility and exposure thanks to the physical presence of your project during the event through a dedicated booth; you will have the opportunity to speak about your work and/or share your views on one of the main priority themes that you are addressing; and meet and discuss with AI experts and decisionmakers. All projects will also receive the Paris Peace Forum selected project label and join the community of global innovators in AI for good and the Paris Peace Forum’s ever-growing community of projects.

The AI Action Summit will be dedicated to projects and initiatives from around the world addressing one of the following themes:

• Trust in Democracy, information, security and safety
  • Combating misinformation
  • Improving public access to information
  • Digital inclusion and accessibility
  • Safety, transparency and accountability
• AI and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Environmental sustainability
  • AI for Climate Action
  • Agriculture and food systems
  • Nutrition
  • Global health, scientific cooperation
  • Education
  • Gender
• Work and well-being:
  • Inclusive and equitable AI
  • Spreading productivity gains
  • Defending AI workers
• Governance, ethics, responsibility and crisis response
  • Global AI governance
  • Ethical AI, supervision and transparency of algorithms
  • AI for early warning and disaster management
  • Humanitarian action
  • Crisis management and conflict prevention

The Paris Peace Forum does not finance projects presented at the event.

In order to be considered by our Selection Committee, the applications submitted in the framework of the Call for AI projects must meet the following seven criteria:

• Be submitted by an organization and not an individual.
• Be managed by at least two people who confirm availability to prepare and present the project throughout the entire duration of the Summit (from 10 to 11 February 2025).
• Demonstrate the use for AI for the public good and be aligned with one of the priority themes of the AI Action Summit.
• Present a minimum level of advancement: at least in the pilot phase with some implementation underway (may be preliminary), not just in the design or inception phases.
• Involve a specific, tangible, and distinct action, which excludes the following: academic research or work in the form of ideas without a plan for implementation; general frameworks or organizational programs rather than specific solutions.
• Have an international dimension, or, at least for local or national initiatives, involve actors or resources from other countries, and possess potential for credible international action.
• Do not apply with the aim of requesting funding from the Paris Peace Forum.

The Selection Committee will then assess each eligible submission taking into account the general quality of the project (feasibility and coherence, credibility and potential, impact) as well as the relevance of the project to the priorities and approach of the Paris Peace Forum and the AI Action Summit (universality, global or international relevance, link with global governance, a cooperation-based approach, diversity of actors involved, innovative, new, or unique dimension, added value of presenting the project (innovative, new or unique) and the impact of showcasing the project at the AI Action Summit.

The Selection Committee will also base its choice on geographic, functional, and thematic diversity, in line with the themes and priorities of the AI Action Summit.

All organizations (States or governments, civil society, companies, international organizations, research institutes, etc.) offering a concrete AI project or initiative to a contemporary global challenge across one of the AI Action Summit’s themes can apply.

You can apply to the Call for AI projects by filling in this online form: https://project.parispeaceforum.org/. Only completed submissions will be considered.

Organizations may submit any number of applications as part of this Call for AI projects under different themes.

Applications must be submitted either in French or in English. 

Our Call for AI projects is open until 11:59 pm CET on October 07, 2024.

Applying to our Call for AI projects is free of charge.

Should your project be selected, you will need to cover the costs of your travel to and accommodation in Paris.  

The Paris Peace Forum and the AI Action Summit may jointly provide grants to selected project leaders who are unable to cover, directly or through external funding, the costs of participating in the Summit. Any request for financial support must be fully substantiated and submitted as per the procedure stipulated upon selection and may lead to coverage of the costs of participation and/or other costs resulting from participation (transportation and/or housing). Under no circumstances may the Paris Peace Forum guarantee a favorable response to the requests for financial assistance it receives.

Priority will be given to requests submitted by project leaders working in non-profits, especially those from countries in the Global South, whose participation in the Summit would require a significant mobilization of financial resources.

All candidates will be notified via e-mail of the Selection Committee’s decision in December 2024.

The selected projects will be officially announced in mid-December 2024 on the Paris Peace Forum website.

Throughout the selection process, the Paris Peace Forum and the members of the Selection Committee will not respond to any requests for information about the application procedure or results.

For any additional information, please read the Rules and Regulations of the Call for AI projects or write to project@parispeaceforum.org