The Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) aim to help innovators bring trustworthy AI and robotics solutions from the lab to real-world use.
In this list of FAQs, CoordinaTEF gathers the most common questions about how to use TEF services, who can benefit from them, and what support is available. It’s designed to give you quick, practical answers so you can make the most of what the TEFs have to offer.
About TEFs
Testing and experimentation facilities (TEFs) are defined in the EU AI Act as facilities that provide technical and scientific support to AI providers and to notified certification bodies.
TEFs offer a combination of physical and virtual facilities, in which technology providers can get primarily technical support to test their latest AI-based software and hardware technologies (including AI-powered robotics) in real-world environments (physical and digital).
TEFs offer a combination of physical and virtual facilities, in which technology providers can get primarily technical support to test their latest AI-based software and hardware technologies (including AI-powered robotics) in real-world environments (physical and digital).
European TEFs are presently consortia of public and private partners funded by the European Commission and Members States.
Browse our Interactive Map to find all TEFs nodes and satellites.
Browse our Interactive Map to find all TEFs nodes and satellites.
The AI sectorial TEFs are funded in the framework of the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) launched by the European Commission.
The Digital Europe Programme has established 4 sectorial TEFs: agri-food, healthcare, manufacturing as well as smart cities and communities. All 4 are be co-funded by Member States.
You can find more information on the TEFs websites listed below.
Agri-food sector: agrifoodTEF
Manufacturing sector: AI-MATTERS
Smart cities sector: CitCom.ai
Health sector: TEF-Health
You can find more information on the TEFs websites listed below.
Agri-food sector: agrifoodTEF
Manufacturing sector: AI-MATTERS
Smart cities sector: CitCom.ai
Health sector: TEF-Health
The prioritisation of sectors (agrifood, health, manufacturing and smart cities and communities) was developed in cooperation with the Member States in the context of the Digitisation of European Industry (DEI) - AI group.
The TEF work programme and call texts under the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) provide more details or illustrative examples for each sector, as relevant.
The TEF work programme and call texts under the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) provide more details or illustrative examples for each sector, as relevant.
TEFs are an ecosystem of private-public organizations, such as research and technology organisations (RTOs), higher education institutions, companies, hospitals, and more.
Discover the partners of each TEF:
AgrifoodTEF
TEF-Health
AI-MATTERS
CitCom.ai
Discover the partners of each TEF:
AgrifoodTEF
TEF-Health
AI-MATTERS
CitCom.ai
TEFs offering
TEFs offer services to test customers' AI solutions under development and to prepare product certification, both in physical and digital environments.
Yes, TEFs are required to provide access to relevant data-sets to its users as is necessary for testing AI at scale. Collecting and harvesting data can contribute to improving the quality of data-sets.
Access to TEFs services
TEFs are providing services to private, such as SMEs, and public organisations. Organisations located in the EU member states will be co-funded, under specific conditions and requirements, by European Commission and national / regional authorities through Digital Europe Programme.
You can get in contact with each TEF through the contact details available on TEFs websites.
Details about the available service offerings can be discovered conveniently via the TEFs Catalogues.
You can easily reach out to each TEF through their websites:
Contact AgrifoodTEF
Contact TEF-Health
Contact AI-MATTERS
Contact CitCom.ai
Contact AgrifoodTEF
Contact TEF-Health
Contact AI-MATTERS
Contact CitCom.ai
