EU Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe call topic (HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-HUMAN-02) funding work on a Web 4.0 architectural framework and an open internet stack, run through the EU Funding and Tenders portal. The call deadline was April 15, 2026.
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ICTS
A postdoctoral fellowship from the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences and the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore focused on AI in biology. Applications closed on March 1, 2026.
Institute for Security and Technology
A practitioner program for mid-career nuclear-policy professionals combining an in-person AI bootcamp, virtual seminars, and applied policy labs. Applications for the inaugural cohort closed on February 28, 2026, and IST announced the 26 selected participants in April.
Meta Llama Impact Grants
Meta's second Llama Impact Grants call awarded more than $1.5 million to 10 companies, startups, and universities using open-source Llama models for social and economic impact. Applications for that round closed in November 2024, and recipients were announced in April 2025.
Google DeepMind
$10M fund jointly run by Google DeepMind, Schmidt Sciences, the Cooperative AI Foundation, ARIA, and Google.org, kick-starting independent research on multi-agent AI safety. The 2026 call closed 8 August 2026.
Schmidt Sciences
Schmidt Sciences funded research studying the safety of large networks of interacting AI agents, offering up to $1M over 1-2 years. The 2026 SM Apply portal closed 8 August 2026.
Cooperative AI Foundation
A $10M fund co-backed by Schmidt Sciences, Google DeepMind, ARIA, and Google.org, supporting 1-2 year research grants ($300k-$1M, or up to $300k for smaller projects) on safety risks from large-scale multi-agent AI systems. The 2026 call for proposals closed 8 August 2026.
NCCU
🛠️ Build with IBM watsonx Orchestrate. 📘 Earn IBM SkillsBuild badges. 🏆 Compete for $10K in prizes. The NCCU AI Hackathon March 19–20, 2026 Open to all university students.
National Science Foundation
NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY announces planning grants for K-12 educators, technologists, researchers, and parents/guardians to develop and scale evidence-based tools for an AI-driven future. Eligible teams may apply for planning grants to prepare for larger implementation projects. The deadline is May 27, 2026.
OpenAI Foundation
A $50 million fund for 2026 from the OpenAI Foundation making unrestricted, one-time grants to US 501(c)(3) nonprofits with annual budgets between $500,000 and $10 million (priority $1-8 million; select regranters under $15 million), across community support services, community arts and cultural organizations, and community journalism and media. Grants run up to 10% of an organization's annual budget with light-touch reporting, and do not require use of OpenAI products.
IVADO
IVADO's 2027-2030 call invests up to C$20 million in roughly 8-12 AI research clusters. Letters of intent closed July 31, 2026. Invited full proposals remain an internal step for teams that already submitted an LOI, not a public intake.
Longview Philanthropy
A Longview Philanthropy request for proposals supporting research and applied work on digital minds. The 2026 round closed July 24, 2026.
Coefficient Giving
Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) ran a 2026 RFP expecting to allocate $10-30 million to research, policy development, implementation, and field-building aimed at ensuring AI improves human health and wellbeing, with attention to the global poor. Applications closed August 21, 2026. Review continues on a rolling basis for submissions already received.
Center on Long-Term Risk
The Center on Long-Term Risk's SPI Fundamentals Program is an online course on AI conflict, bargaining, and safe Pareto improvements. The August 2026 cohort includes an optional paid capstone project and accepts applications through July 24.
ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency)
Cybersecurity call within ARIA's GBP 59M Safeguarded AI programme, allocating GBP 20M across Blue Team awards (3-6, production-grade security-critical software with machine-checked proofs) and one Red Team for adversarial evaluation.
Schmidt Sciences
Schmidt Sciences AI Interpretability RFP offers up to $1M for projects developing new tools to detect and mitigate deceptive behaviors in large language models. Awards range from $300k to $1M, with a deadline of May 26, 2026. The program is open to researchers and teams seeking to advance interpretability methods for safer AI systems. Full details and application are available at https://schmidtsciences.smapply.io/prog/2026_interpretability_rfp/.
Schmidt Sciences
Schmidt Sciences' 2026 AI at Work call offered up to $200,000 to early-career economists and other quantitative social scientists for field experiments on worker displacement, adjustment, and scientific productivity. Expressions of interest closed on April 10, 2026.
Second Look Research
A ten-week 2026 summer fellowship at the University of Chicago focused on reproducing AI safety research. The fellowship runs from June 15 through August 22 and includes a stipend and work with external advisors.
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