Challenges and Funken. Our calls for pioneers with worldchanging ideas

The focus is on developing solutions that enable efficient model training on heterogeneous Hardware, from high-performance GPUs to CPUs of different types and manufacturers.

The prototype to be developed must demonstrate how deepfakes images can be reliably detected and authenticated. It can be AI-supported and should be able to continuously adapt to new deepfake techniques.

Pioneering solutions are needed to shape digital identity in Germany. The aim of the Funke is to develop and test technical solutions for future German EUDI wallets in the form of prototypes.

The aim is to develop a system that can master various challenging obstacles and tasks completely autonomously. Other autonomous systems, e.g. on the ground, can be used as support.

In the Challenge the feasibility of a novel approach to tissue engineering for first-in-human transplantation is to be demonstrated.

The teams are challenged to develop an end-to-end prototype that processes various carbonaceous waste streams into new products as a continuous bioproduction process.

The goal of the Challenge is to develop fundamentally new computing concepts in theory and gradually transfer them into practice. The approaches must achieve high leverage in application.

The Challenge teams are asked to identify breakthrough technological approaches that enable long-term, efficient, and cost-effective energy storage.

A solution is to be developed in the Challenge that removes CO₂ from the atmosphere in the long term, is scalable and can be implemented in an economic business model.

The goal of the Challenge is to expand the repertoire of antiviral therapeutics with breakthrough technologies so that new treatment options will be available in the future and patients can be helped quickly.