EuropeResearchSummer

You write the research. Working scientists review it blind. One of you presents in Paris.

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About the programme

Real research, taken seriously.

We find Europe's strongest student AI talent early, connect it, and keep it working in Europe. A former President of the European Research Council advises the programme.

103
Researchers selected
65+
Researchers in the jury
20+
Countries
1
Final · Paris

01

Research, not a hackathon

You write a real paper. It is judged on rigour, novelty and contribution, and nothing else.

02

Double-blind review

Researchers in your field read your paper. They never learn your name.

03

One final in Paris

The strongest paper in your country goes to Paris and presents live.

Students working on laptops around a shared table
Where the work actually gets written

How it works

From your AI society to the Paris final.

  1. 01

    Submit

    You submit through your university AI society, from Bachelor's to PhD.

    220 applicants
  2. 02

    Review

    Working researchers matched to your field read it. Neither side sees a name.

    103 selected
  3. 03

    National winners

    The strongest paper in each country advances.

    One per country
  4. 04

    Paris final

    You present live to an international jury. The winner joins OVHai LLM.

    One winner

What double-blind means here

Author

Never published

You submit through your AI society. Your name never travels with the paper.

The paper

The only thing seen

Read on rigour, novelty and contribution. Nothing else is visible.

Reviewer

Never published

A working researcher in your field. Their name is never published either.

Research areas across the cohort

  • LLMs & Agents

    • Language models
    • agentic systems

  • Safety & Interpretability

    • Fairness
    • trustworthy AI

  • Health & Life Sciences

    • Clinical AI
    • computational biology

  • Vision & Robotics

    • Perception
    • embodied AI

  • AI for Science

    • Physics
    • energy
    • climate

  • ML Theory & Methods

    • Foundations
    • geometric ML

The cohort

One programme, all of Europe.

Participants and reviewers across 20+ countries.

Researchers per country

1–2
3–5
6–10
11–20

103 selected participants across 20 countries, from 220 applicants Europe-wide.

The final · Summer 2026

Pont Alexandre III in Paris at dusk
Audience in a dark auditorium

One stage

One paper per country makes it to the stage.

International jury

Working researchers judge the presentations in person.

The prize

The winner receives an internship with OVHai LLM. AWS provides compute support for the programme.

The network

Backed across the European AI ecosystem.

Aggregate affiliations across the cohort and the jury, never linked to any individual paper.

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Participants are affiliated with

  • University of Oxford
  • University of Cambridge
  • Imperial College London
  • King's College London
  • Technical University of Munich
  • CentraleSupélec
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • CNRS
  • TU Delft
  • KU Leuven
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • Sanofi
  • Nokia
  • Thales

Reviewers are affiliated with

  • EPFL
  • Harvard University
  • Meta AI
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Sapienza University of Rome
  • Politecnico di Torino
  • Institut Pasteur
  • Radboud University
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Bristol

Community partners

Behind the programme

EuroTech Federation.

A pan-European deep-tech federation founded in April 2025.

  • 170+ Fellows selected from 2,000+ applications
  • YC companies and acquisitions among Fellows
  • PhDs at Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, EPFL, ELLIS
  • CERN research, Forbes Under 30, high-citation work
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Advised at the highest level.

Advised by a former President of the European Research Council, with 65+ researchers connected in the jury network.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Who can participate?

You can, from undergraduate to PhD, as long as you submit original AI/ML research through your university AI society. If your society isn't onboarded yet, get in touch. More are joining.

Is this a hackathon or a pitch competition?

Deliberately not. You submit a research paper, and working researchers review it double-blind. The point is to find Europe's strongest student AI researchers early, connect them to each other, and give them a reason to stay.

How are papers reviewed?

By working researchers matched to your field, double-blind. They never learn who wrote the paper, and you never learn who reviewed it. Nothing public ever links a person to a paper.

What do winners get?

If your paper is the strongest in your country, you present live at the final in Paris. The winner receives an internship with OVHai LLM; AWS provides compute support for the programme.

What is EuroTech Federation?

A pan-European deep-tech federation founded in April 2025, with 170+ Fellows selected from more than 2,000 applications. The initiative is advised by a former President of the European Research Council.

My question isn't here. Who do I ask?

Write to us at contact@eurotech-federation.com and we'll get back to you within a few days.

Get involved

Bring your AI society. Or back the programme.

AI societies join as community partners; companies and institutions support with infrastructure, internships, and model access.

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