What about the very similar sounding EuroLLM[1] project mentioned elsewhere[0] in the comments? If that is indeed a different project, why not pool resources? EuroLLM has already delivered some models, they are up on Hugging Face[2][3].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119913
[1] https://sites.google.com/view/eurollm