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European Commission (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, under Horizon Europe; managed by the European Research Executive Agency, REA) · Europe (host institution in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country; also possible: Global Postdoctoral Fellowships hosted in non-associated third countries with a return phase in Europe) · Deadline: 09 Sep 2026 · Award: Standard MSCA unit costs covering researcher allowance (living, mobility, family), research/training/networking costs and management/indirect costs (annual values published in the call's Work Programme; typically a fully-funded postdoc package of roughly €5,000 to €8,000+ per researcher per month equivalent depending on host country correction coefficient)
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships support researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out research abroad, acquire new skills, develop their careers and have international mobility. Open to excellent researchers of any nationality. The 2026 call opened 9 April 2026 and closes 9 September 2026 at 17:00 CEST; notification of call results expected February 2027; grant agreement signature April 2027. Two strands: European Postdoctoral Fellowships (12 to 24 months in Europe) and Global Postdoctoral Fellowships (12 to 24 months outside Europe + 12-month return phase in Europe). The project must take place in a country different from where the researcher has worked or studied. Approximately 1,600 projects funded. Apply via the EU Funding & Tenders Opportunities Portal; submission is by the fellow plus host institution. Eligibility: researcher must have a PhD at the call deadline (or have submitted thesis with all requirements met), maximum 8 years full-time-equivalent research experience post-PhD, must comply with the mobility rule (no more than 12 months in the host country in the 36 months before the deadline).
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New_ Public · Remote, with an in-person kickoff retreat in Philadelphia, USA (19 to 22 October 2026). Open to applicants based in the United States or Canada. · Deadline: 09 Sep 2026 · Award: Stipend of USD 22,500, paid in three monthly installments across the residency, each contingent on continued active participation. Plus USD 1,500 toward an AI tool of the resident's choice for coding, prototyping or design. Two residents are selected in the pilot cohort. Also provided: hands-on product and strategy support from senior New_ Public staff and outside experts; access to New_ Public's five years of original research on moderation, governance, community stewardship and platform design, plus direct access to the researchers behind it; and introductions across New_ Public's network of major platforms, startups, university researchers and funders for hiring, fundraising, early user testing and community partnerships. Residents must submit a Form W-9 or W-8BEN to receive the stipend. No application fee.
New_ Public is piloting a virtual Entrepreneur in Residence programme for solo founders building alternatives to the mainstream social platforms. Its framing: people are turning away from algorithmic social media, AI bots are taking over the big platforms, and users are retreating into private closed spaces, which leaves an opening for builders working on a new information ecosystem rather than the status quo. The residency supplies research, experts, connections and tools; the founder brings the vision and experience. TWO FOCUS AREAS: humans connecting to humans, meaning products that bring people into meaningful contact online (forums, messaging apps, groups, microblogging, in-person meetups), including AI-powered platforms and tools as long as they connect people to people rather than people to bots; and local and civic information environments, meaning tools for distributing local news, building community knowledge and facilitating collective sensemaking, so people can get trustworthy information about their communities. WHAT RESIDENTS DO: use self-directed time to prototype ideas, test assumptions and gain clarity; participate in regular check-ins, engage with the other resident and the wider team, and take candid feedback on product and strategy; engage seriously with go-to-market questions about who the user is, how they find you, and the path to sustainability; and help shape the programme itself, since the pilot cohort's feedback directly informs how the EIR programme runs going forward. WHO THEY WANT: entrepreneurial founders ready to build their next thing within the focus areas, with a track record of or clear drive toward work that builds social trust, connection and belonging; strong product thinkers with good judgment, a relentless focus on user needs, and openness to coaching on mission-aligned business models. An early idea is enough, no working product required. The pilot is open to founders with something else going on alongside, though the full programme will most likely be full time. APPLICATION PROCESS: submit the written application online; shortlisted applicants submit a short video by 18 September 2026 covering background, motivation and a quick pitch; full applications and videos go to the advisory board, with offers made in early October ahead of the kickoff. FUTURE COHORTS: New_ Public plans to open the next cohort to the UK and EU from spring 2027. Deadline 11:59pm Pacific on Wednesday 9 September 2026.
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GMAC Film (Glasgow Media Access Centre) · Scotland, UK · Deadline: 09 Sep 2026 · Award: Up to GBP 6,000 production funding per film, plus training, workshops, industry mentorship and free equipment and resource access
GMAC Film's Little Pictures scheme funds Scotland-based filmmakers making their first funded short film, with up to GBP 6,000 production funding per film plus a year of training, workshops, industry mentorship and free access to equipment and resources. Fiction, documentary, animation and experimental work are all eligible, and the scheme has produced over 50 films across Scotland in its six years, prioritizing underrepresented voices in the screen sector. ELIGIBILITY: 18+, based anywhere in Scotland, not in full-time education, and not previously commissioned to make a film (Opening Shot alumni excepted); no prior filmmaking experience required, and separate tracks exist for filmmakers and producers. Access support provisions are available for applicants facing additional barriers. Deadline: 9 September 2026, 10am.
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Scottish Documentary Institute, with Screen Scotland and Northern Ireland Screen · Scotland and Northern Ireland, UK · Deadline: 09 Sep 2026 · Award: Up to 4 films receive a full commission with a cash production budget (GBP 8,500 per film in the previous round) plus production and distribution support
Bridging the Gap is the Scottish Documentary Institute's flagship short documentary talent scheme for new and emerging filmmakers based in Scotland and Northern Ireland. From an initial shortlist of 12 projects, up to 4 films receive full commissions with cash budgets (GBP 8,500 per film in the previous round) plus production and distribution support, with finished films distributed to cinemas and international festivals; BtG shorts have a long track record of festival play and awards. The programme combines professional development, production funding and distribution: shortlisted filmmakers take part in intensive workshops and pitch to a panel of experts. The scheme looks for surprising, challenging and moving submissions that embrace the possibilities of the documentary genre and subvert expectations in form and content. Access support is available for disabled applicants, and information is available in alternative formats on request. Deadline: 9 September 2026, midnight.
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Mondriaan Fund · Applicants must be based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. The event takes place in Mexico City, Mexico. · Deadline: 10 Sep 2026 · Award: A voucher covering admission to the Zona Maco preview days, a curated programme during Mexico Art Week 2027, a networking event with the Dutch Embassy, and hotel accommodation from 2 to 7 February 2027, plus a EUR 1,300 contribution towards travel costs. 15 vouchers are available. No application fee.
A Mondriaan Fund voucher sending visual artists to Mexico Art Week 2027 in Mexico City, built around the Zona Maco art fair. The voucher covers admission to the Zona Maco preview days, a curated programme during the week, a networking event with the Dutch Embassy and hotel accommodation from 2 to 7 February 2027, plus a EUR 1,300 contribution to travel costs. Fifteen vouchers are available. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists from the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom with at least one year of professional practice. Applicants may not be enrolled in a bachelor's, master's or PhD programme, with an exception for part-time programmes under 20 hours per week. CONDITIONS: the artist must be available to stay in Mexico City from 2 to 7 February 2027 and take part in all scheduled activities, and must submit a written evaluation after the visit. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online system with a CV (maximum three pages), a motivation statement addressing your international ambitions, the relevance of Mexico Art Week to your practice and your networking strategy, bank details and, if applicable, a BRP extract. Deadline 10 September 2026 before 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time.
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Mondriaan Fund · Applicant institutions must be based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom; the partner institutions are abroad. · Deadline: 10 Sep 2026 · Award: Determined per application. Up to 40% of variable project costs. For a development research phase, up to 70% of variable costs capped at EUR 15,000, covering travel, accommodation and presentation costs. The applicant must contribute significantly to the project financing, and the international partners' cost share must be proportional to the Mondriaan Fund grant. No application fee.
This scheme funds cultural heritage institutions in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that want to collaborate with foreign heritage institutions on research projects in shared collection areas, including art historical and provenance research. A development phase can also be funded, covering travel, accommodation and presentation costs while the collaboration is being shaped. CONDITIONS: the applicant institution must be publicly accessible and manage nationally significant cultural heritage; it must partner with comparable institutions abroad; the research must be presented by both the Dutch and the international partners; the applicant must contribute significantly to financing the project; and the international partners' share of costs must be proportional to the Mondriaan Fund grant. AMOUNTS: up to 40% of variable project costs for the main project, or up to 70% of variable costs capped at EUR 15,000 for development research. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online application system after registering an account. Deadline 10 September 2026 before 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time (an earlier 28 May 2026 round has passed).
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Fondazione Prada · Milan, Italy-based fund; open worldwide to independent producers and production companies. · Deadline: 10 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 1.5 million annual endowment supporting up to 14 projects. Individual grant amounts are set by the Fondazione Prada selection committee (no fixed per-stage bands published). No application fee.
The Fondazione Prada Film Fund is an annual initiative supporting independent cinema, with an annual endowment of EUR 1.5 million backing up to 14 feature film projects across development, production, and post-production. The Fund imposes NO restrictions on geography, theme, genre, or language and does not participate as a co-producer, guaranteeing complete artistic freedom to filmmakers. It supports both established authors and new talents, as well as research projects. WHICH TRACKS ARE STILL OPEN: the 2026 call opened 30 June 2026 and runs on two separate deadlines. The projects-in-production track has already CLOSED (6 August 2026). Development and post-production remain open to 10 September 2026, which is the deadline this card now tracks. Post-production applicants can keep working after submitting: a rough cut may be supplied up to 20 November 2026. SELECTION is based exclusively on quality, originality, vision, and the strength and reliability of the applicant structure; projects are evaluated by independent readers and external consultants, with final selection and grant amounts determined by a committee appointed by Fondazione Prada and composed of prominent figures from cinema and culture. No fixed per-stage grant bands are published, so the committee sets each award. ELIGIBILITY: applications may be submitted only by a production company involved in the project, and that company remains solely responsible for meeting all requirements and conditions; obligations of selected beneficiaries are governed by a contract with Fondazione Prada. Open worldwide, with no geographic restriction at all. PHISHING WARNING FROM THE FUNDER: all official communications about the Film Fund come only from addresses in the fondazioneprada.org domain. Treat anything from another domain as a probable fraud or phishing attempt and verify before responding. The second edition's selected projects are announced February 2027. Application documents are on the Fondazione Prada Film Fund page; questions to filmfund@fondazioneprada.org.
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Eureka / Eurostars-3 (Dutch participation via RVO) · International consortia from at least two Eurostars countries, led by an innovative SME. Dutch funding administered by RVO. · Deadline: 10 Sep 2026 · Award: Co-funds collaborative international R&D; national funding varies by country. For the Dutch project share: up to EUR 500,000 per project at 50 percent reimbursement of eligible R&D costs. No application fee.
Eurostars (part of the Eureka network, the Eurostars-3 programme co-funded by Horizon Europe) supports collaborative international R&D projects led by innovative SMEs. Each country funds its own participants, so amounts vary; for the Dutch share, RVO funds up to EUR 500,000 per project at a 50 percent reimbursement rate on eligible R&D costs. Projects require an international consortium of at least two independent organisations from at least two Eurostars countries, led by an innovative SME, with the SME budget at least 50 percent of the total and no single participant exceeding 70 percent. Projects must run no longer than 36 months and be civil (non-defence) in purpose. Call 11 opens 9 July 2026 and closes 10 September 2026, 14:00 CEST. No application fee. Submit via the Eureka project platform (myeurekaproject.org); Dutch national information at RVO.
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Harvard Radcliffe Institute · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; fellows must relocate to and reside in the Cambridge/Boston area for the full fellowship (September through May). · Deadline: 10 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 78,000 stipend plus an additional USD 5,000 for project expenses. Relocation, housing, and childcare funds may also be provided. No application fee.
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship offers scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists a year to pursue ambitious projects in a vibrant interdisciplinary setting amid the resources of Harvard University. The Institute welcomes innovative work that confronts pressing social, scientific, and policy issues and seeks to engage audiences beyond academia. Reflecting Radcliffe's history, it welcomes (but does not limit eligibility to) proposals focused on women, gender, and society, or that draw on the Schlesinger Library's collections. It also invites proposals relevant to the Institute's 2024-2029 focus area, academic freedom and connecting across difference (intellectual virtues, free and open inquiry, diversity of thought, political polarization, peace and conflict, inequality, religious pluralism, and related higher-education policy issues), including work that constructively challenges disciplinary orthodoxies or advances transformative perspectives. SUPPORT: USD 78,000 stipend plus USD 5,000 for project expenses, with relocation, housing, and childcare funds available; fellows must reside in the Cambridge/Boston area from September through May. ELIGIBILITY: open to individuals across career stages; tenure is not required and applicants need not be academics. This is NOT a postdoctoral fellowship; those currently enrolled in a degree program are ineligible, as are former Harvard Radcliffe fellows (1999-present). Applicants must meet discipline-specific criteria. APPLY: register on the online portal and select an area (Humanities and Social Sciences; Creative Arts; Nonfiction and Journalism; or Science, Engineering, and Mathematics). Materials: application form, CV, 1,400-word project proposal (with bibliography when appropriate), a writing or work sample, and three references. DEADLINES: humanities, social sciences, creative arts, and nonfiction and journalism by 10 September 2026, 5pm ET; science, engineering, and mathematics by 1 October 2026, 5pm ET.
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CRP Research Fellowship Programme · Participating member countries (host institution must be in a different participating country from the applicant's home institution) · Deadline: 10 Sep 2026 · Award: Travel lump-sum allowance plus return economy airfare, a weekly subsistence allowance of EUR 600 or EUR 650 (depending on host-country cost of living), and a fixed EUR 165 terminal allowance. Not covered: insurance, visa fees, lab/bench fees, family travel, and personal or dependents' costs.
Short-term international research fellowship for scientists seeking placements at host institutions in participating member countries. Fellowships last 6 to 26 weeks and support international scientific collaboration, research mobility, knowledge exchange and cross-border partnerships. PRIORITY THEMES: sustainable agricultural productivity, climate action, environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, soil health, water resource sustainability, knowledge innovation, sustainable livestock systems, fisheries development and aquaculture sustainability. FUNDING: a travel lump sum, return economy airfare, a weekly subsistence allowance (EUR 600 or EUR 650 by host-country cost of living) and a EUR 165 terminal allowance; insurance, visa fees, lab/bench fees and family or personal costs are not covered. ELIGIBILITY: employed by or affiliated with an institution in a participating country; proposed host institution in a different participating country; at least 4 years of postdoctoral experience (exceptional candidates with equivalent expertise and a strong publication record may also be considered). Applicants must not already hold a position at the host institution, need employer approval and assurance of continued employment or affiliation after the fellowship, and previous fellows may reapply only after a 5-year gap. Applicants confirm country eligibility, secure a host institution and collaboration, prepare a research proposal (objective, scientific relevance, methodology, expected outcomes, 6-26 week timeline, collaboration benefits) and submit supporting documents (CV, publication list, employer approval, host acceptance letter, proof of affiliation).
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MacDowell · Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA · Deadline: 10 Sep 2026 · Award: No residency fee; need-based stipends and travel reimbursement available; ~300 fellowships/year
Residency for artists across seven disciplines (architecture, film/video, interdisciplinary, literature, music composition, theatre, visual arts). Sole selection criterion is artistic excellence. Applications open 15 August 2026. February deadline of the following year covers the Fall/Winter cycle.
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Hiding in Plain Site · United States / online; screenings sited in public space. Open internationally. · Deadline: 10 Sep 2026 · Award: Screening; selected filmmakers receive a modest stipend (amount to be confirmed, revenue-dependent). Free to submit.
Hiding in Plain Site is an international public art short film festival accepting film, video art, XR, and explicitly AI-generated or AI-assisted moving image works of 2 to 20 minutes, screened in public space. Free to submit; selected filmmakers receive a modest stipend whose amount is revenue-dependent and not yet confirmed. Deadline 10 September 2026.
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Stichting Stokroos · Residency in Scuol, Switzerland (Fundaziun Nairs). Applicants must live and work in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (including its Caribbean parts) or Suriname for at least one year. Applicants outside the Randstad particularly encouraged. · Deadline: 11 Sep 2026 · Award: Fully supported stay (accommodation and meals paid directly to Fundaziun Nairs) plus an unrestricted living, travel and production budget of EUR 7,000. 80% paid before the residency, the remainder on receipt of a brief final report. No application fee.
Stichting Stokroos funds a three-month reflective residency at Fundaziun Nairs in Scuol, Switzerland, for one selected visual artist, designer or craft practitioner (overlap possible). Both emerging and established makers may apply. Stokroos covers full accommodation and meals directly with Fundaziun Nairs and provides a discretionary EUR 7,000 budget for living, travel and production. The application should include a proposal that engages specifically with the residency, its Alpine surroundings and/or its historical and cultural context. Eligibility: you completed your first subject-specific (vocational or higher) programme in 2022 or earlier, or have an equivalent established practice, or started without formal training (first presentation marks the start of your practice); at least 21 years old; living and working in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (including its Caribbean parts) or Suriname for at least one year; not currently enrolled in a study or post-academic programme. Applications are individual only; duos and collectives cannot apply. Makers already selected by Fundaziun Nairs may still apply if they meet the criteria. You may submit only one application per year across all Stokroos grants, and must not have received a Seed Grant rejection in the previous calendar year. Apply via the online form (Dutch or English) with a portfolio PDF up to 20 pages, optional video up to 10 minutes total, CV up to 2 pages, and work/plan descriptions up to 2,500 characters each. Selection includes an introductory interview with up to three candidates; Stokroos aims to respond within 8 weeks. No appeal is possible. Application window: 1 to 11 September 2026. More information at nairs.ch.
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University of the Arts London (UAL AKO Storytelling Institute), with the Power of Pop Fund · High Holborn, London, United Kingdom (hybrid) · Deadline: 11 Sep 2026 · Award: GBP 48,563 per annum pro rata (around GBP 19,425 for the part-time fellowship hours), plus UAL benefits. No application fee.
The UAL AKO Storytelling Institute, with the Power of Pop Fund, is recruiting six Storytelling Research Fellows to run independent research projects on how storytelling in popular culture shapes attitudes, behaviour and public discourse. Fellows work across media including television, film, gaming, podcasts and digital culture, are supported by the Institute's Head of Research and a peer cohort, and produce actionable findings for creative practitioners, funders and social-impact organisations, presented at a closing public symposium. ELIGIBILITY: experienced researchers with a PhD or equivalent research expertise gained academically, independently or through professional practice, with a track record of delivering high-quality research and working with external partners. Practice-based and non-academic researchers are explicitly in scope. APPLICATION: CV, record of publications, a research proposal of 1,000 to 1,200 words, and a supporting statement including at least one example of a research project you designed and delivered. Applications via the UAL jobs portal; closes 11 September 2026.
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Khoj International Artists' Association in collaboration with Mozilla Foundation · New Delhi, India. Weekly in-person sessions at Khoj. INDIAN NATIONALS ONLY. · Deadline: 13 Sep 2026 · Award: Mozilla's Creative Futures: Counterstructures programme publishes USD 2,500 per resident (USD 2,000 stipend plus a USD 500 materials budget), along with weekly in-person work sessions, guest lectures from practitioners across art, technology and community design, and publication of the finished project in the collective documentation report. CAVEAT: neither the Khoj call page nor the Mozilla application form restates a figure for this six-week Delhi edition, and the published package covers the ten-week format, so confirm the amount with Khoj before applying. No application fee.
Counterstructures is Mozilla Foundation's cultural R&D residency, in which creative technologists prototype alternatives to dominant tech systems: cultural artifacts, installations and tools that question and reframe them. Each edition operationalises the findings of a regional participatory assembly into thematic tracks; the Delhi edition, hosted by Khoj International Artists' Association, works from Mozilla's assemblies with G5A in Delhi and Mumbai and runs on two tracks. RETAINING CULTURAL AUTHORITY asks what happens when oral, embodied or community-held knowledge is converted into datasets and machine-readable forms, which cultural materials become visible to AI systems and which do not, and how communities can retain authority over what is digitised, interpreted, reused or deliberately kept private. REMEMBERING AND THINKING WITH MACHINES asks where thought resides when people think with machines, at what stage human judgment enters the system, and what cultural or professional knowledge is lost when judgment is standardised through automation. Proposals may respond to one or both tracks and can take many forms, but must critically counter the questions the tracks raise rather than simply illustrate them. WHAT RESIDENTS DO: prototype an artifact, installation, system, artwork or tool for public exhibition; take part in listening, reading, workshops and facilitated critique, testing ideas with peers and community members; write a 750-word report on the project's development and insights for the Counterstructures report and online archive; and present the work publicly. WHO IT IS FOR: creative technologists and multidisciplinary artists using technology as a medium for cultural inquiry, bringing critical perspectives and research-driven practice. Experience with AI can be early-stage or advanced, but SOME PROFICIENCY WITH CODING IS REQUIRED. ELIGIBILITY: this Delhi edition is open to Indian nationals only. Earlier editions ran with tiat in San Francisco (responding to Hollywood's 8 Rules for AI) and with Rhizome in New York, whose residents showed at the New Museum. APPLY through the Mozilla Foundation form at https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/f/khojresidency; the guiding principles for the call are set out in the form. Deadline 13 September 2026.
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Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte and UNIDEE Residency Programs · Cittadellarte, Biella, Italy. Requires in-person presence at Cittadellarte for a minimum of one month plus the full length of each module. · Deadline: 13 Sep 2026 · Award: Compensation and contractual terms commensurate with the candidate's level of professional experience, starting from a gross amount of EUR 22,000 for the appointment, excluding travel and hospitality, which are covered separately. No application fee.
Cittadellarte is recruiting a Visiting Research Curator to shape the research arc of the UNIDEE Residency Modules for 2027-2028, the role most recently held by Nina Fiocco and Gaia Martino. Founded by Michelangelo Pistoletto in 1999, the residency has hosted thousands of artists and cultural professionals from 52 countries. WHAT THEY WANT: rather than a fixed theme set in advance, they want a curator who brings their own line of inquiry and develops it collectively through the modules. Suggested thematic areas are the evolving landscape of socially engaged art practices, research-driven and process-oriented practice, and the conditions of cultural work and cultural workers, aligned with UNIDEE's focus on artistic research in response to ecological, geopolitical and technological challenges. They also flag a specific interest in how contemporary art practices are archived, drawing on the UNIDEE archive, which documents over two decades of socially engaged art initiatives. THIS IS A JOB, NOT A GRANT: the duties list is long and operational. It covers proposing the overarching curatorial theme, designing and delivering a minimum of 8 weekly residential modules per year, writing the curatorial statement and resident open call, recruiting mentors and guests, selecting residents, hosting and facilitating every module in person, communications and website texts, a dissemination strategy, and conceiving and editing publications. There is also teaching-adjacent work with the Unidee Academy of Contemporary Arts, including public lectures and studio visits. Budget the time before applying. PROFILE: experience curating art in the public sphere and socially engaged art, specialised knowledge of international contemporary art, experience designing experimental and collaborative educational activities, and experience with artistic research and dissemination standards. Excellent English required; Italian welcome but not essential. APPLYING: online form with a project proposal of maximum 5000 characters stating your vision for the modules programme and a development strategy including possible mentors and guests, plus a CV, a portfolio of maximum three relevant projects, and TWO LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION, so line up your referees early. A jury of the UNIDEE Advisory Board, the Director of Cittadellarte and invited experts decides. They do not give feedback on unsuccessful proposals.
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Futures of Listening (FIBER, 4DSOUND, Robin Koek, Art of Sound) in collaboration with KNMI, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute · Partially self-hosted, partially at the 4DSOUND studio in Amsterdam, and partially at KNMI in De Bilt near Utrecht, Netherlands. · Deadline: 13 Sep 2026 · Award: Total residency fee of EUR 7,125, calculated as 25 commissioned days at a day rate of EUR 285. Six of those 25 days can be spent at the 4DSOUND studio working with their team. Some additional financial support is available if needed, including material and travel costs, but these must be clearly defined and agreed before the residency starts. No application fee.
One residency for an artist, designer or maker working with sound, exploring spatial sound in relation to seismology, climate and discharge-related acoustics, run with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. THE PREMISE: climate change is making major landslides, ice-breakoff events from marine-terminating glaciers, and sound-producing ice movements more common. These generate infrasonic vibrations inaudible to humans that sometimes spread across the entire planet and into the atmosphere. The residency asks how immersive sound techniques can make these events tangible and build meaningful sonic narratives from them. WHAT YOU GET ACCESS TO: scientific data on seismological events, vibrations, infrasound and the movement of land and ice masses, with scientific expertise from KNMI (lead researcher Jelle Assink) and artistic guidance from the Futures of Listening team, relating local events to global impact. RESEARCH QUESTIONS to position your proposal against include how immersive sound can cultivate situated listening to ecological processes and more-than-human encounters, how artistic and scientific methods of working with environmental data can inform each other, and what is gained, lost or ethically at stake when environmental sounds are translated, interpreted or reconstructed through spatial and synthetic means. DELIVERABLE: residents are expected to create a final spatial sound production using the 4DSOUND system. Other outcomes may include immersive installations, data-driven sonic works, audiovisual pieces, software prototypes or reusable methodologies. Experience in art-science environments is welcome but not required; you may instead explain why working in one would benefit your practice. HARD ELIGIBILITY GATE: applicants must be based in the Netherlands AND registered as an artist with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK). This is not negotiable and rules out non-NL applicants. Futures of Listening is a Netherlands-based platform for spatial sound, immersive experience, performance and installation art, founded by FIBER Festival, 4DSOUND, Robin Koek and Art of Sound at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, supported by CIIIC and Stimuleringsfonds.
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Futures of Listening (FIBER, 4DSOUND, Robin Koek, Art of Sound) · Amsterdam, Netherlands, with work at the 4DSOUND studio. · Deadline: 13 Sep 2026 · Award: Total residency fee of EUR 7,125, calculated as 25 commissioned days at a day rate of EUR 285. Six of those 25 days can be spent at the 4DSOUND studio working with their team. Some additional financial support is available if needed, including material and travel costs, but these must be clearly defined and agreed before the residency starts. No application fee.
One residency for an individual practitioner, a duo or a studio working at the intersection of sound and space, exploring architecture through spatial audio. THE PREMISE: architecture is traditionally conceived through form, structure, material and light, with sound treated as something to be controlled or optimised afterwards. This residency asks what happens if architecture begins with sound, shifting the question from how a space should sound to how sound can generate space. Spatial audio, virtual acoustics and immersive media now allow prototyping of responsive environments, impossible architectures and sonic spaces beyond physical constraints. RESEARCH QUESTIONS include how sound can become a first principle in architectural and spatial design, how the acoustic properties of space inform the creation and perception of spatial sound, and how artistic research can shape the future tools, interfaces and methods of spatial sound creation. NOT JUST ARTWORKS: they explicitly say they want new methods, insights and creative infrastructures too. Outcomes may include installations, spatial audio compositions, performances, audiovisual works, software prototypes, reusable methodologies or modular interfaces. Residents may collaborate with a 4DSOUND software developer to prototype new tools, and practitioners who already build their own software, hardware or creative technologies are encouraged to advance those as part of the residency. WHO: architects are the named invitees, with scenographers, spatial designers, installation artists, sound artists, composers and creative technologists also encouraged. Creative coding experience is welcome but not required. Lead researcher is Poul Holleman, co-founder and director of 4DSOUND. HARD ELIGIBILITY GATE: applicants must be based in the Netherlands AND registered as an artist with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK). This is not negotiable and rules out non-NL applicants. Futures of Listening is a Netherlands-based platform for spatial sound, immersive experience, performance and installation art, founded by FIBER Festival, 4DSOUND, Robin Koek and Art of Sound at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, supported by CIIIC and Stimuleringsfonds.
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Futures of Listening (FIBER, 4DSOUND, Robin Koek, Art of Sound) · Amsterdam, Netherlands, with remote and studio access to the 4DSOUND infrastructure. · Deadline: 13 Sep 2026 · Award: Total residency fee of EUR 7,125, calculated as 25 commissioned days at a day rate of EUR 285. Six of those 25 days can be spent at the 4DSOUND studio working with their team. Some additional financial support is available if needed, including material and travel costs, but these must be clearly defined and agreed before the residency starts. No application fee.
One residency to research and develop an interactive listening experience built on non-linear sound narratives, experienced by navigating through a series of virtual spaces or layers. NO VISUALS: Worlding Narratives centres sound as the primary medium for immersion and intentionally removes dominant visual layers such as VR, AR, projection or video. THE DESIGN PROBLEM they want tackled is translation and adaptation, specifically the shift from one visitor in a headphone-mediated experience to rendering for a multi-speaker system for group interaction. That change in dynamics, reproduction and perspective is integral to the residency scope. RESEARCH QUESTIONS include how immersive sound can function as a primary narrative medium across speculative and non-fictional realities, what new narrative structures and dramaturgical methods become possible when the creative process originates from sound rather than adapting frameworks from other media, and how interactive sonic structures can create navigable listening experiences designed for and by multiple intelligences. Outcomes may include interactive sonic prototypes, spatial audio compositions, immersive listening experiences, narrative sound works or software prototypes. WORTH NOTING: your residency runs in tandem with resident Pinar Temiz, an expert in sound design for gaming environments, with the opportunity to work together. Lead researcher is Dr Angela McArthur of UCL, with research support from Dr meLe yamomo of the University of Amsterdam. WHO: media and sound artists, sound designers, musicians producing their own sonic work, field recordists, writers, composers and game sound designers. Experience with interactive audio, spatial sound tools or game-sound workflows is welcome but not required. HARD ELIGIBILITY GATE: applicants must be based in the Netherlands AND registered as an artist with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK). This is not negotiable and rules out non-NL applicants. Futures of Listening is a Netherlands-based platform for spatial sound, immersive experience, performance and installation art, founded by FIBER Festival, 4DSOUND, Robin Koek and Art of Sound at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, supported by CIIIC and Stimuleringsfonds.
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ERA Fellowship · Cambridge, United Kingdom, in person with dedicated desk space at ERA's office. Visa support provided. · Deadline: 13 Sep 2026 · Award: GBP 10,000 stipend for the 10-week fellowship, plus visa support, travel expense coverage and meals during working hours. Top performers can receive 6+ month extensions through the Research Scholars programme. No application fee.
Paid in-person research fellowship in Cambridge for people who want to build expertise in AI safety or AI governance. Fellows develop and complete a research project on mitigating risks from frontier AI, working in one of three streams: technical safety, governance, or technical AI governance. WHAT YOU GET: a GBP 10,000 stipend for the 10-week programme, visa support, travel expense coverage, meals during working hours, expert mentorship from established researchers, dedicated research management support aimed at publishing in top venues, and immersion in Cambridge's AI safety research community with regular social and networking events. Top performers can be extended by 6 months or more through the Research Scholars programme. ELIGIBILITY: open to anyone 18 or older; the programme is talent-first with no formal credential requirement, welcoming researchers, students and professionals from technical, policy, security, legal, economic and other relevant backgrounds; prior formal research experience is not required. SELECTION: three stages, a written application of roughly 2 hours, Round 1 interviews in late September for the top 20 percent, and Round 2 interviews in early October. COHORT: starts 18 January 2027. Deadline 13 September 2026 at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth.
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Social Resonance Lab · Remote, US residents only (including territories) · Deadline: 13 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 2,000 stipend per fellow; two fellows selected for the inaugural cohort
The inaugural Mycelia Fellowship by Social Resonance Lab, a collaborative research studio exploring how ethical storytelling fosters human connection, selects two practitioners advancing innovative projects at the intersection of ethical storytelling, arts, civic engagement, AI, or the digital landscape. TWO TRACKS: Arts as a Civic Tool (artistic practice for public engagement and social issues) and AI and the Digital Landscape (technology's influence on narratives and collective memory). Fellows receive a USD 2,000 stipend, direct advising and consultancy from the SRL team, a published piece on the SRL Substack, a guest spot on an upcoming ethical storytelling podcast, and co-lead a workshop presenting their work to practitioners and the public. The fellowship strengthens, documents, refines or scales EXISTING projects; do not pitch a completely new idea, and connect your work clearly to ethical storytelling and one of the two tracks. ELIGIBILITY: US residents only (including territories, must be able to file a W-9 and use a US bank account) with an existing project underway, intersectional practice awareness, and strong writing and research skills. Remote, 8 weeks, November to December 2026. No application fee. Deadline: 13 September 2026, 11:59 PM.
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Guardian Documentaries and arte.tv · Europe. · Deadline: 14 Sep 2026 · Award: GBP 10,000 in production support for one short documentary project, plus editorial and creative input from the partners and distribution through Guardian and arte.tv platforms.
Guardian Documentaries and arte.tv have opened a short documentary film fund on the theme 'Democracy at Stake in Europe', supporting the development and production of a character-led documentary short exploring threats, pressures and challenges facing democratic societies across Europe. The aim is to amplify personal stories that help audiences understand democracy in Europe today and to stimulate public debate; suggested areas of focus include press freedom, civic trust and democratic participation. AWARD: one project receives GBP 10,000 in production support; alongside the financial award, the selected filmmaker receives editorial and creative input from the partners, with distribution through Guardian and arte.tv platforms. The funding can be used for work linked to the film's development and production, such as research, filming and post-production, subject to the applicant's proposed budget and plan. ELIGIBILITY: open to European filmmakers aged 18 or over; the call is focused on a single short documentary and is intended for projects where individual experience and perspective are central to telling a wider story about democratic life in Europe. Deadline 14 September 2026.
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Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL) · Netherlands. Requires Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) registration within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. · Deadline: 14 Sep 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 30,000 per grant. No application fee.
Open call from the Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) for projects within digital culture that provide insight into and reduce the ecological impact of digital technology. Data storage in the cloud, generative AI chatbots and other everyday digital habits carry major ecological consequences: the energy consumption of data centres, the raw materials used for hardware, and ever-growing e-waste. The Fund encourages projects that make the ecological (and therefore also social) impact of digital technologies and data consumption tangible, question it, and put alternative working methods into practice, around topics such as regenerative culture, degrowth, low-tech, the reuse of obsolete hardware, and responsibility for the technologies we use within digital culture. Applications may concern new projects or the reinterpretation or further development of existing initiatives that show scope for more depth or a changed approach. Collaborations in which designers, makers or researchers engage with sustainability from an intersectional perspective are explicitly encouraged. The grant may be used for artistic and substantive development, research, collaboration, knowledge sharing, presentation and documentation. ELIGIBILITY: individual makers, designers, researchers or collectives working on alternative ways of handling digital technology, registered with a Chamber of Commerce within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Grant awards a maximum of EUR 30,000; maximum project duration one year. This call is open from 17 August 2026, 15:00 CEST until 14 September 2026, 16:00 CEST. No application fee. Questions: digitalecultuur@stimuleringsfonds.nl.
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Fund for Investigative Journalism · USA-primary (foreign-based stories require strong U.S. angle) · Deadline: 14 Sep 2026 · Award: Up to $10,000 (regular) or $1,000 to $2,500 (seed)
Grants for in-depth investigative reporting that exposes corruption, malfeasance or misuse of power across public and private sectors. Covers print, online, broadcast, books, documentaries and podcasts. Surveillance, abuse-of-power and accountability investigations all fit. Letter of Commitment from a news outlet required for full proposals (not for seed). Seed deadline ~10 May 2026; regular deadline 14 September 2026, 23:59 ET. Reviewed three to four times per year. Stories must be published in English with a U.S. media outlet. Ethnic media and journalists of colour particularly encouraged.
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People Powered and Democracy Narratives Alliance · Worldwide; remote. Global screening event for winners. · Deadline: 14 Sep 2026 · Award: USD $1,000 for each of 4 winners; USD $500 for each of 5 honorable mentions. Plus amplification across People Powered and Democracy Narratives Alliance networks and feature in a global screening event. No application fee.
The Democracy Stories Lab, an initiative of People Powered (a global hub for participatory democracy) in partnership with the Democracy Narratives Alliance, invites creators worldwide to submit visual content -- short videos, illustrations, or graphics -- that tells a compelling story about democracy, voice, fairness, belonging, and community power. Content can be original or already published, as long as it is the applicant's own work and engages with narrative frameworks from the Democracy Narratives Alliance's research on 'How to Talk About Democracy.' Tone is open; serious and comedic approaches are both welcome. SUBMISSIONS: up to two finished visual content pieces per applicant, answering the prompt of what the future would look like if people had a real say in the decisions that shape their lives. FORMATS: primarily visual social media content, including short videos (under 3 minutes, vertically oriented) and illustrations; written or audio pieces are accepted if presented in a visual format, for example as a filmed performance. Each submission should build on one of five narrative types from the DNA research brief 'How to Talk About Democracy': outcome-oriented (how democracy shows results), intrinsic-value (why democracy is the best choice), collectivist (the importance of diverse voices), individual (how democracy is empowering) and process-oriented (showing democratic institutions work); a short creative brief gives further guidance. AWARDS: 4 winning entries receive USD $1,000 each; 5 honorable mentions receive USD $500 each; all winners receive amplification across People Powered and Democracy Narratives Alliance communications networks and are featured in a global screening event. WHO CAN APPLY: individual creators and small teams anywhere in the world; especially welcomes creators who reach audiences outside usual democracy circles, who come from communities traditionally with less of a say in public discourse, and who work in civic tech, advocacy, community organising, comedy, art, illustration, games, or lifestyle content. Applications opened 14 July 2026 and are submitted through the official form on the People Powered Democracy Narratives Alliance page. Submission deadline: 14 September 2026. Winners announced October-November 2026. Note: the initiative was itself voted into existence through People Powered's participatory budgeting process (PP Decides).
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Fonds Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten (Fonds BJP) · Netherlands; for freelance journalists working on Dutch regional and local reporting · Deadline: 14 Sep 2026 · Award: Up to EUR 19,200 for six months of work on a single reporting dossier. No application fee.
The Dossiersubsidie is the Fonds BJP scheme for freelance regional and local journalists in the Netherlands who want to follow one subject properly rather than chase daily news, funding up to EUR 19,200 for six months of sustained reporting on a single dossier. It is aimed at the gap left by shrinking regional newsrooms, where structural coverage of local government, housing, care or industry rarely gets paid time. ELIGIBILITY: freelance journalists working in Dutch regional and local media only (staff journalists and national-only reporters are directed to the fund's other schemes). The fund also runs a year-round Vooronderzoekssubsidie of up to EUR 8,800 for preliminary research and a year-round Uitvoeringssubsidie of up to EUR 38,600 for carrying out projects, both open to all journalists. APPLICATION WINDOW: 17 August to 14 September 2026, via the Fonds BJP subsidy portal. Online office hours on 8 September 2026; questions on 020 63 86 295.
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White Rabbit Gallery · Online (gallery in Sydney, Australia); no travel required · Deadline: 14 Sep 2026 · Award: AUD 2,000 artist fee (split equally if a collaborative group); free to enter
White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney commissions an emerging artist or designer to create a short digital animation responding to its Generation Xi exhibition, which looks at China's youth amid the AI, robotics and EV revolution, and to the New Ugly digital design aesthetic. The commissioned work (up to 20 seconds, minimum 1280x720 at 16:9, max 150MB, including the exhibition title in English and Mandarin) is displayed for five months on the gallery's website landing page and enters the permanent WRG Digital Archive. SUPPORT: AUD 2,000 artist fee (split equally if a collaborative group) plus mentorship from creative agency Spring in Alaska during the development period (28 September - 2 November 2026). ELIGIBILITY: open internationally to applicants 18+ within the first 10 years of their artistic or design practice who are not represented by a commercial gallery or design agency and not employed by a design company; students and collectives welcome. Free to enter. Deadline: 14 September 2026, 5pm AEST.
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Voices With Impact / Art Opening Minds · International (distribution focus in North America) · Deadline: 14 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 7,500 production grant per filmmaking team
Voices With Impact funds transformative five-minute short films about mental health, awarding USD 7,500 per filmmaking team. The 2027 theme is Sanctuary, explored through the lens of mental health: a sanctuary can be a place, a person, a practice, a memory, or something else. Beyond the grant, selected teams receive regular production meetings and story consultations, industry mentor connections, feedback from mental health professionals, festival strategy development, and distribution through Art Opening Minds' festival and a network of 350+ educational partners that integrate the films into curricula. Films must be exactly five minutes. TIMELINE: grants awarded late October 2026, production from November, deliverables due mid-April 2027, world premiere at the Voices With Impact festival in early June 2027. No application fee. Deadline: 14 September 2026, midnight.
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation · Anywhere; the fellowship funds the fellow's own work rather than residence at a host institution. Open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Variable cash grant sized to the applicant's proposed budget and needs; the Foundation does not publish a fixed figure or range, and recent awards have typically run into the tens of thousands of US dollars. Roughly 175 to 200 fellowships are awarded each year across more than 50 fields. The Foundation charges no application fee and has no affiliated application consultants.
The Guggenheim Fellowship is awarded to mid-career individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts, giving them six to twelve months of funded time to work with as much creative freedom as possible. Around 175 to 200 fellows are chosen each year from a field of several thousand applicants (a success rate of roughly five percent), across more than 50 fields spanning the creative arts, the humanities, the natural sciences and the social sciences, including architecture, film, music, photography, fine arts, computer science and interdisciplinary work. ELIGIBILITY: citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada; applicants must be mid-career with a significant record of published or exhibited work, and current students and previous Guggenheim Fellows are not eligible. APPLICATION: through the Foundation's own portal, which opens in late summer 2026, so check the site if it is not yet live. The application deadline is 15 September 2026 with no late submissions accepted; work samples are due 29 September 2026 and reference letters 13 October 2026. Results are announced in late April 2027. No fee.
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Kone Foundation / Koneen Saatio (Finland) · Finland. Work may be carried out abroad by Finnish citizens. Projects must have a connection to Finland. · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Artistic groups and organisations up to EUR 250,000; research groups typically EUR 200,000 to 500,000. Minimum project duration six months for individual applicants and one month for groups; maximum four consecutive years for the same project. No co-financing requirement stated. No application fee. No retroactive funding.
Kone Foundation is Finland's major private funder for academic research in the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences, for professional artistic work across all disciplines, and specifically for multidisciplinary projects combining scholarly and artistic approaches, which is where digital culture, media arts and artistic research proposals land. Individuals, working groups and legal entities with a Finnish business ID may apply, and artistic groups and organisations can receive up to EUR 250,000. The Finland connection is the binding constraint: a non-Finnish applicant needs a Finnish institutional affiliation, Finland residence, or the work must happen in Finland, though international collaborators can join a group freely once one member is a Finnish citizen or Finland-based. Psychology, theology, law, business studies without an interdisciplinary element, and medical research are not funded, nor are master's studies, continuing education, building renovation, standalone equipment purchases or hobby activity. The annual call runs 1 to 15 September each year, closing 15 September 2026 at 16:00 EEST, with decisions announced in November and December. TIMING: funding is never retroactive and projects must begin in January or later, so a September 2026 application funds work starting January 2027 at the earliest. FLAG: Kone frames its funding around artistic work and research projects rather than festival or event hosting as such, so an event-led application needs to be framed as an artistic or research project.
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Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) · Netherlands. SME consortia (minimum two collaborating SMEs). · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Grant covering 35 percent of eligible costs. Small projects EUR 50,000-200,000; large projects EUR 200,000-350,000 per project (EUR 25,000-100,000 or EUR 25,000-175,000 per participant). No application fee.
The MIT R&D Collaboration Projects scheme (MIT R&D-samenwerkingsprojecten, part of MKB Innovatiestimulering Topsectoren) funds joint R&D projects by Dutch SMEs within the national Top Sectors and Mission-driven Innovation policy. The grant covers 35 percent of eligible costs: small projects of EUR 50,000-200,000 and large projects of EUR 200,000-350,000 (with per-participant ranges of EUR 25,000-100,000 for small and EUR 25,000-175,000 for large). Eligible applicants are consortia of at least two collaborating SMEs, with no single participant carrying more than 70 percent of costs. The national RVO round runs 9 June to 15 September 2026 (closes 17:00) and is a ranked tender, not first-come-first-served; some provinces run separate regional MIT windows. No application fee. Apply via RVO.
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MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art · Ljubljana, Slovenia. Open internationally to artists of all nationalities and professional levels. · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Full support including accommodation, technical support, production costs and an artist fee. The exact EUR artist-fee amount is not published; confirm by email. No application fee.
MoTA (Museum of Transitory Art) in Ljubljana runs an annual open call for production residencies for media, sound and visual artists, curators and researchers. Production residencies offer full support including accommodation, technical support, production costs and an artist fee; the exact artist-fee amount is not published on the official or aggregator pages, so applicants should confirm the figure directly by email. Residencies run up to one month. Open internationally: artists of all nationalities and at all professional levels are encouraged to apply, as individuals or collectives. No application fee. The annual deadline is 15 September (for residencies the following year). Apply by email to mota.artists@gmail.com with the subject line Application for production residency. Note: the official motamuseum.com SSL certificate is currently expired, which may briefly affect link reliability.
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Q-O2 (workspace for experimental music and sound art) · Brussels, Belgium; 10 residencies for international artists and 10 for artists living in Belgium. · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: NO artist fee. International residents: shared accommodation in the Q-O2 apartment plus a travel contribution up to EUR 200. A small subsistence budget is reserved for artists who do not come with other funding. Work studio, materials and technical equipment provided. No application fee.
The residencies at Q-O2 offer time and space for artistic research, reflection and creation in the field of experimental music and sound art. In 2027, Q-O2 will host 20 residencies, 10 for international artists and 10 for local artists living in Belgium, working with, on or around sound. The programme is open to artists, art workers and theorists who wish to pursue a research-oriented project; note that Q-O2 does not organise production-directed residencies and is not a rehearsal space. Duos are possible, and exceptionally small groups too. SUPPORT: a work studio and materials, a creative and communicative environment, and the possibility to present work to a public and/or propose a workshop; for international residents, accommodation in a shared apartment and a contribution to travel expenses of up to EUR 200; and a small subsistence budget reserved for artists who do not come with other funding. There is no artist fee. A final public presentation can be arranged if the artist wishes but is not expected; what Q-O2 requires are some traces of the residency in word, image and/or audio form. APPLY by 15 September 2026: email a concise project proposal of no more than one page plus a permanent link to your website or other secondary information (no temporary links) to info@q-o2.be with the subject 'Residency27 - your name'. State where you would travel from, how long you would like to stay (4 to 6 weeks), and your interest in Q-O2 as a working environment, and make sure you receive an email confirmation of receipt.
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Dutch Research Council (NWO) · Netherlands (applicants must be academic researchers affiliated to a Dutch knowledge institution) · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Up to EUR 50,000 per project
Small curiosity-driven research grants in the social sciences and humanities, awarded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Round 3 of the 2026 SSH Open Competition XS closes 15 September 2026, 14:00 CEST. Up to EUR 50,000 per project to enable researchers to pursue novel, exploratory and high-risk ideas without the constraints of larger themed calls. ELIGIBILITY: academic researchers with an institutional affiliation at a Dutch university or recognised Dutch knowledge institute. Proposals are assessed on scientific quality and the potential for renewal of social-sciences and humanities research. Round 3 details and the dedicated application page will be published by NWO closer to the deadline; the linked page is the most recent SSH XS round, which is the same scheme.
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Canon Foundation in Europe · Europe or Japan (bilateral exchange; fellows arrange own host institution) · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Up to EUR 30,000 per year (pro-rated for shorter stays). No application fee.
Canon Foundation in Europe Research Fellowships support bilateral research exchange between Europe and Japan, awarding up to 15 fellowships annually. AMOUNT: up to EUR 30,000 per year (pro-rated for shorter stays), flexible — covers living costs, travel, insurance, research expenses, and books; fellows determine their own allocation. ELIGIBILITY: European nationals (including UK, Israel, Switzerland, Turkey, Balkan and Baltic countries) conducting research in Japan; or Japanese nationals conducting research in Europe. Applicants must have completed at least a Master's or PhD degree within the last 10 years (older qualifications may apply with supporting documentation). No restrictions on research field. Priority given to first-time applicants to Europe/Japan. Fellows arrange their own host institution and advisor. Up to 15 fellowships awarded annually. Deadline: 15 September 2026, 23:59 CET (for fellowships starting January-December 2027). Apply at https://portal.canonfoundation.org/. Contact: canon.foundation@canon-europe.com.
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image+nation culture queer · Montreal, Canada (festival 19-29 November 2026). Open internationally. · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Screening at Canada's oldest LGBTQ+ film festival. FilmFreeway submission fee applies.
image+nation, Canada's oldest LGBTQ+ film festival, accepts international submissions for its 39th edition in Montreal. Deadline 15 September 2026 via FilmFreeway.
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Pinata Group · Torun and Wloclawek, Poland. Open internationally; works may NOT be AI-generated. · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Prizes PLN 3,000 / 2,000 / 1,000, plus exhibition and an ISBN catalog. Free entry.
THE ONE International Digital Art Biennial, organized by Pinata Group in Torun and Wloclawek, Poland, accepts digital art internationally with free entry; prizes are PLN 3,000, 2,000, and 1,000, plus exhibition and an ISBN catalog. IMPORTANT CAVEAT: submitted works may not be AI-generated. NOTE: the 15 September 2026 deadline is from a listing site and is not stated on the organizer page; verify before submitting.
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John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress · Washington, DC, United States (in residence at the Thomas Jefferson Building, 101 Independence Ave SE). Open to applicants of any nationality: U.S. citizens and foreign nationals alike, with J-1 exchange visitor visa sponsorship provided for those who need it. · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Stipend of USD 5,000 per month for a residency of four to eleven months, so USD 20,000 to USD 55,000 depending on the tenure awarded. Twelve Kluge Fellowships are awarded each year. Stipends are paid monthly by electronic transfer to a U.S. bank account. No application fee, no participation fee.
The John W. Kluge Center awards twelve residential fellowships a year for humanistic and social science research that draws on the Library of Congress collections, with interdisciplinary and cross-cultural projects particularly welcome. Fellows get four to eleven months in residence at a stipend of USD 5,000 per month, work and discussion space in the Jefferson Building, and access to the Library's specialist staff, the world's largest law library, extensive multilingual books and periodicals, and deep special collections of manuscripts, maps, music, films, recorded sound, prints and photographs, alongside the wider scholarly community in Washington. The Center was established in 2000 through a USD 60 million endowment from John W. Kluge. ELIGIBILITY: scholars who received a terminal advanced degree (the highest degree available in the discipline, usually a PhD, JD or international equivalent) within the past seven years, in the humanities, social sciences, or a professional field such as architecture or law. The degree must be in hand at the time of submission, and full-time students are therefore out of scope. Open to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals; selected foreign nationals are assisted in obtaining a Library-sponsored J-1 visa, though holders of H-1B visas are not eligible. APPLICATION: through the Library's online portal, opening 15 April 2026 and closing 11:59pm on 15 September 2026. Materials required are an application form in English, a CV (max 2 pages), a 500-word research abstract, a one-page statement on how the Library's collections will serve the work, a project proposal with work plan (max 3 pages), a bibliography (max 3 pages), and two reference letters from referees who have read the proposal. No fee.
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Normsy (a project of Civic Health Project) · Remote. Open to individuals and teams from academic, academic-adjacent and industry backgrounds; no stated country restriction. Research context is X/Twitter (proposals may be multi-platform but must include X). · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 1,000 awarded to each of the top 5 proposals, plus up to USD 20,000 to fund R&D and/or testing with one selected partner individual or team. Preference for budgets where at least 50 percent goes to research costs (survey respondents, LLM or X API credits). No application fee.
Normsy, a project of Civic Health Project, runs a small methods incubator for new strategies to measure or estimate the impact of prosocial social-media interventions. Normsy identifies toxic posts (typically content attacking or violating civic norms) and offers real users a set of AI-generated prosocial comments to choose from and post; the open question is how to estimate the effect of those comments on content producers, other commenters and bystanders who consume content without interacting measurably. The current approach combines survey experiments (how active X users respond emotionally to threads with and without the intervention, and how it shifts agreement with and support for the original post) with paid X API platform data (classifying comments before and after an intervention, plus coarse engagement metrics that cost money each time they are recollected). WHAT THEY WANT: a systematic way to leverage available platform data and maximise the utility of the survey experiments. Example proposals include a strategy for measuring toxicity/prosociality and reach/visibility of a thread over time with a randomisation design generating a control group of threads, or an approach to benchmarking the prosocial potential of AI-generated comments through an iterative arena with human judges or a theory-backed LLM validation approach with human validation. The brief is explicit that methodological innovation, causal identification, scalable measurement frameworks and novel observational approaches matter far more than proposing new intervention types; proposals need not study Normsy exclusively but must explain how the evaluation design transfers to it. Ethics and IRB considerations are central and Normsy will collaborate with selected researchers on ethics review and implementation planning. Researchers retain publication independence and IP; the partnership is expected to produce data for an academic paper. SUBMIT: one zipped folder through the linked Google Form containing a 3-page proposal (design, work already done, work still needed to scale and implement), a budget document for the USD 20,000, a timeline with concrete deliverables inside 6 months, and short bios for all team members. Award notifications mid-October 2026. Questions to kylan@civichealthproject.org; informal and exploratory conversations welcome.
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University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science (BOLD Lab, with UCL and Imperial College London) · Oxford, UK, with posts also based at UCL and Imperial College London. The 12 posts are employed across the three universities. · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: Salary on Oxford Grade 10R, GBP 65,336 to GBP 84,663 per year, with the posting noting that further salary options are being explored. Benefits include associate membership at Reuben College, 38 days annual leave, pension scheme, childcare services, and travel expenses for stakeholder and conference visits. Fellows also get access to substantial compute: 3 million GPU hours on Isambard for the first 18 months, with the lab working towards 5,000 H100-equivalents in total across industry and government support. No application fee.
The British Open-ended Learning and Discovery (BOLD) Lab is a new UKRI-funded initiative establishing an AI research laboratory led from the University of Oxford, bringing more than 80 researchers from Oxford, UCL and Imperial College London under one vision. It carries an initial investment of around GBP 8 million with the potential for a further GBP 22 million extending the investment over six years, making it one of the UK's largest bets on fundamental AI research. The lab's remit is ambitious, high-risk work on the fundamental science of artificial intelligence, alongside training future leaders in the field. THE ROLE: up to 12 BOLD Fellows are being recruited across the three universities. Fellows are expected to operate with a high level of independence and responsibility, setting their own research direction, publishing at the highest level, and mentoring junior researchers and doctoral students. They also play a leading role in managing the lab and take responsibility for developing its strategic and scientific direction, with primary responsibility for a programme of independent funded research projects. The posting frames the draw as exceptional independence, direct collaboration with world-leading colleagues across the three institutions, access to substantial and rapidly growing compute, and real influence over the intellectual direction and culture of a major national lab. WHO SHOULD APPLY: senior researchers with an established, original research track record in AI or a closely related field, who are a recognised authority in their area. HOW TO APPLY: submit an online application with a covering letter or supporting statement, a CV, and details of two referees. Informal enquiries are welcomed beforehand to the BOLD Exec Team at boldexec-team@eng.ox.ac.uk. NOTE: this is a salaried fixed-term research post rather than a grant. Only applications received before midday on Tuesday 15 September 2026 can be considered.
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Embassy of Foreign Artists / Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism, Geneva Graduate Institute · Geneva, Switzerland · Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 · Award: CHF 1,400 monthly residency grant plus accommodation in a private room; travel and artistic production costs are not covered
The Embassy of Foreign Artists, in partnership with the Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism at the Geneva Graduate Institute, invites artists worldwide to a three-month artistic research residency in Geneva during 2027. The programme centres on archival research in the archives of Geneva-based international intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations (UN, Red Cross and others): uncovering untold stories, examining international decision-making, reflecting on multilateral successes and failures, and imagining new possibilities for international cooperation. Selected artists receive a CHF 1,400 monthly residency grant, accommodation in a private room with shared common areas, artistic guidance from EOFA, connections with archive personnel, and access to participating archives as primary research resource; travel and production costs are the artist's own. ELIGIBILITY: professional artistic practice with a demonstrable body of work (creations, publications and/or performances), over 28 years old, fluent in French or English, not enrolled in basic art training; individuals, duos or groups may apply (same stipend). APPLY via the online form plus a single PDF (cover letter, project description, portfolio, CV) emailed to application@eofa.ch. No application fee. Deadline: 15 September 2026.
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Mondriaan Fund · Museums and collection-holding heritage institutions in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. · Deadline: 17 Sep 2026 · Award: Projects: up to 40% of variable project-related costs, with a minimum project budget of EUR 25,000. Research tracks: up to 70% of costs, capped at EUR 15,000, with no minimum budget. No application fee.
Heritage Innovation funds projects and research tracks that contribute to substantive innovation in the heritage sector. Examples given by the fund include developing new narratives about cultural heritage, strengthening regional collaboration across the sector, redesigning how a collection is presented, and feasibility studies on technological applications such as AI or gamification, which makes this one of the more tech-adjacent Mondriaan schemes. WHO CAN APPLY: museums and collection-holding cultural heritage institutions, including archives, in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Cultural organisations in the heritage sector may also apply if they collaborate with one or more collection-holding institutions. All applicants must be non-profit, not-for-profit entities. NOT FUNDED: fixed costs, restoration, building museums, or regular operations. CONDITIONS: institutions must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code, and must pay visual artists fairly where artists are involved. AMOUNTS: projects get up to 40% of variable project-related costs on a minimum project budget of EUR 25,000; research tracks get up to 70% of costs capped at EUR 15,000 with no minimum budget. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online system after registering an account. Deadline 17 September 2026 before 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time.
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Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL) · Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Requires an independent design practice of at least four years. · Deadline: 17 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 8,250 to EUR 28,250 per applicant. Total budget EUR 300,000, increased for 2026. No application fee.
Open call from the Creative Industries Fund NL supporting designers in deepening and professionalising their own practice rather than delivering an external client project. It funds practice development across design, architecture, digital culture and the crossovers between them, and the Fund explicitly names digital storytellers and sound designers among eligible practitioners, which makes it one of the more accessible routes for a maker working between technology and art. ELIGIBILITY: designers with an independent practice of at least four years, established in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Temporary collectives may apply with one lead applicant. Grants run from EUR 8,250 to EUR 28,250. The window runs 19 August 2026, 15:00 CEST to 17 September 2026, 16:00 CEST.
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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) · Seoul, South Korea (MMCA Residency Changdong) · Deadline: 18 Sep 2026 · Award: Monthly grant of KRW 1,200,000 (approx. USD 850), total KRW 3,600,000 for the residency period, plus a private live-in studio provided free of charge
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea invites curators, critics and independent researchers to its International Researcher Residency Program at MMCA Residency Changdong in Seoul. The program supports curatorial and research-based inquiry into modern and contemporary Asian art through sustained research and professional exchange with the Korean art scene. Four researchers are selected across three terms in 2027. SUPPORT: a monthly grant of KRW 1,200,000 (approx. USD 850, total KRW 3,600,000 for the period) and a private live-in studio with access to the residency's facilities. Participants cover their own round-trip airfare, meals, local transportation, research materials and travel/medical insurance. ELIGIBILITY: open exclusively to curators, critics and independent researchers of all nationalities except Korean citizens, with a research focus on modern and contemporary Asian art, at least five years of professional experience and fluency in English; previous participants of the MMCA Changdong or Goyang residencies are not eligible. Applications are submitted online via mmca.go.kr only. Deadline: 18 September 2026, 18:00 KST.
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Briarpatch Magazine · Regina, Canada (remote pitching; Canadian focus) · Deadline: 18 Sep 2026 · Award: CAD 150 for profiles, short essays, book reviews and parting shots (under ~1,500 words); CAD 250 for feature stories and photo essays; CAD 350 for research-based articles and investigative reporting (2,000-2,500 words). No pitch fee.
Briarpatch, the Canadian magazine of grassroots politics, dedicates its Winter 2027 issue to AI Resistance and is paying for articles, investigative reporting, historical analysis, photo essays, timelines, profiles, reading lists and art. SUGGESTED ANGLES include Indigenous-led and local resistance to data centres, exploitation and outsourcing of labour in LLM training, AI's impact on work and union resistance, data mining and data sovereignty, environmental and climate impacts, artists and AI (crisis of creativity and ownership), the language and inevitability narratives of AI, policing and the surveillance state, AI and disinformation, and investigations into Big Tech lobbying and media influence in Canada. PITCH: outline what ground your contribution covers, estimated word count, and your relevant experience; first-time Briarpatch writers should add a brief writing sample. Send to pitch [at] briarpatchmagazine.com. Accepted first drafts are due 14 October 2026 with collaborative editing until late November; publication is not guaranteed. No pitch fee. Deadline 18 September 2026.
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LASR Labs, hosted at the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) · London, UK (in-person, full-time). International applicants eligible; visa support via the UK Authorised Exchange programme for those without UK work rights. · Deadline: 20 Sep 2026 · Award: GBP 15,000 stipend for the 13-week programme, plus food, office space, and flights/travel. No application fee.
LASR Labs is a 13-week full-time technical AI safety research programme in London: teams of 3 to 4 write a technical paper on loss-of-control risks under an experienced supervisor, with recent cohorts publishing at NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML workshops, and around 90 percent of alumni moving into AI safety or security roles. FUNDING: GBP 15,000 stipend plus food, office space, and flights/travel. ELIGIBILITY: technical machine-learning or quantitative background, from undergraduates to experienced engineers, with no hard requirements; international applicants get visa support via the UK Government Authorised Exchange programme. Hosted at the London Initiative for Safe AI. Runs 11 January to 9 April 2027. DEADLINE: 20 September 2026, 23:59 GMT.
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British Film Institute (BFI National Lottery) · United Kingdom (UK-based organisations running development programmes for UK creatives) · Deadline: 21 Sep 2026 · Award: Award amounts are not published on the fund page. No application fee.
The Creative Challenge Fund does not fund films directly. It funds the organisations that run project-development programmes for UK creatives working on narrative, documentary or animation features, or on narrative immersive media projects. The BFI's stated aim is to decentralise development away from a small number of London-centric gatekeepers and build a wider, more resilient ecosystem of talent-development providers across the UK, with a recently added emphasis on independent producers. ELIGIBILITY: only legally constituted UK-based organisations may apply. Individual filmmakers seeking development money should look to the BFI Filmmaking Fund's Development strand instead. TIMING: Round One closed in March 2026 and has made its first awards. Round Two closes Monday 21 September 2026, with funded programme activity required to begin between 1 January and 30 June 2027. NOTE: award amounts are not published on the fund page. Successful applicants must prominently credit BFI National Lottery support.
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CBK Rotterdam / Art Office · Rotterdam, Netherlands (Rotterdam-based artists only) · Deadline: 21 Sep 2026 · Award: Up to €7,500 (time compensation; fee depends on project duration)
Subsidy supporting in-depth activities or innovative impulses within the artistic practice of Rotterdam-based visual artists, with a clearly defined artistic question or objective. Applicants must be registered with Art Office (artoffice.info) with an up-to-date artist page. The 2026 Round 2 deadline is 21 September 2026, 11:00 (form opens 10 August 2026); results by 16 November 2026. Round 1 (deadline 2 March 2026) has already closed. Decisions made by the director of CBK Rotterdam on advice from an expert committee.
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Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (AP University of the Arts) · Antwerp, Belgium. Salaried research position; international applicants must hold a valid Belgian work permit. · Deadline: 21 Sep 2026 · Award: Salaried research position (contractual appointment). Start projects: 20% employment for 12 months + EUR 1,000 operating resources. One-year projects: 55% employment for 12 months + EUR 1,000. Two-year projects: 55% employment for 24 months + EUR 2,000. No application fee.
The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (AP University of the Arts) invites applications for artistic research projects starting 20 September 2027, in three types: start projects, one-year projects, and two-year research projects. Applications are embedded in one or more of the Conservatoire's four research groups, supervised by a supervisor, and must align with the Conservatoire's mission and vision. FOCAL POINTS across disciplines: research into improvisation and intuitive creation and performance practices; new dramaturgical and scenographic approaches in cross-over projects; methodologies for interdisciplinary creation processes; sustainable relationships between artists and urban communities; the possibilities and limitations of inclusion in education and/or on stage; and well-being and resilience in music and performing arts. FUNDING (salaried research position): start projects, 20% employment for 12 months plus EUR 1,000 operating resources; one-year projects, 55% employment for 12 months plus EUR 1,000; two-year projects, 55% employment for 24 months plus EUR 2,000. PRECONDITIONS: the applicant holds a relevant master's degree and conducts research situated in or arising from their own artistic practice with the capacity for discursivity; the proposal must align with the Conservatoire's mission/vision; the applicant must be able to enter contractual employment with the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp/AP University of the Arts for the duration of the project (international applicants must hold a valid Belgian work permit); proposals may be submitted only in Dutch or English. PROCEDURE (two steps): STEP 1, submit an expression of interest by 21 September 2026, 12:00 noon (applicants informed by the week of 5 October whether they may develop a full proposal with a research group); STEP 2, submit the full project dossier by 1 December 2026, 12:00 noon. Evaluation by an independent reading committee aims to conclude in March 2027. Contact: Kevin Voets, Head of Research, kevin.voets@ap.be.
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NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) with Netflix · United States. Applicants must be US-based and a current NALIP member in good standing. · Deadline: 21 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 45,000 production grant for each of four selected directors to create an original narrative short film, plus individualized guidance, career development opportunities, and an industry showcase. No application fee, but current NALIP membership is required to apply.
The Netflix x NALIP Director Incubator is a career acceleration program supporting emerging and mid-career directors in creating bold, original short films centered on stories from women's perspectives. Four directors each receive a USD 45,000 production grant to make an original narrative short, along with individualized guidance, career development opportunities, and the chance to showcase their work to industry leaders. ELIGIBILITY: emerging or mid-career film or television directors based in the United States who are current NALIP members in good standing, available for all program activities, and applying with an original narrative short film project. APPLICATION: online application plus a director's statement, project synopsis, resume or CV, and portfolio links. TIMELINE: applications open 1 September 2026; deadline 21 September 2026; review mid-October; finalist interviews late October; fellows announced November 2026.
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ILIAD · London, UK or San Francisco Bay Area, USA (in-person, limited remote flexibility). Primarily for PhD/postdoc-level researchers in maths, theoretical physics, or theoretical CS; a degree is not a hard requirement given substantial research experience. · Deadline: 21 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 6,000 per month travel-and-housing allowance for the 3-month fellowship. No tuition or application fee.
The ILIAD Fellowship is a 3-month mentored research fellowship producing concrete outputs in applied-mathematical AI alignment research, distinct from ILIAD's four-week taught Intensive. Fellows work in person in London or the SF Bay Area with a USD 6,000 per month travel-and-housing allowance. ELIGIBILITY: primarily PhD and postdoc researchers in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science or related fields, though a degree is not a hard requirement given substantial research experience; limited remote flexibility. DEADLINES: 21 September 2026 for the November cohort (2 November 2026 to 5 February 2027); 19 October 2026 for the December cohort (1 December 2026 to 5 March 2027). A single common application at iliad.ac/apply covers the Fellowship and the Intensive.
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Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL) · Netherlands-based applicants; funded activity takes place mainly abroad. At least one international partner required. · Deadline: 22 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 10,000 to EUR 50,000. Minimum 20 percent co-financing. Round budget EUR 300,000 (2026 total EUR 600,000). No application fee.
This scheme funds international activity by the Dutch design, architecture and digital culture sectors, covering projects that take place mainly abroad and require at least one international partner. Open to professional makers, observers, design agencies and cultural institutions. Grants run EUR 10,000 to EUR 50,000 with at least 20 percent co-financing. The round runs 25 August 2026, 15:00 CEST to 22 September 2026, 16:00 CEST. From 2026 places are allocated by lottery draw rather than order of submission. Activities in countries under a code-red travel advisory or subject to sanctions are excluded. Applicants must be registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK).
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This is Gender (Global 50/50) · Remote and part-time, working within a global photography competition. Applications are invited from practitioners in global majority countries and historically underrepresented communities, including Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania, and diasporic communities worldwide. · Deadline: 22 Sep 2026 · Award: Stipend of up to GBP 3,000 for the seven-month part-time fellowship. No application fee.
This is Gender, the photography and visual culture platform run by Global 50/50, is launching its inaugural Regional Curatorial Fellows Programme for early-career curators and cultural practitioners working across photography, visual culture and gender justice. The premise: images shape how gender, power and social realities are understood, feeding public debate, cultural memory, research, advocacy and policy, yet the communities and visual practices that should inform those narratives stay underrepresented in the institutions that circulate them. The programme's argument is that diversifying who makes images is not enough, and that it also matters who selects, contextualises, writes about, commissions and circulates them. For the first time, This is Gender is embedding regional curators directly inside its global photography competition, which has run six cycles and receives thousands of submissions a year. WHAT THE FELLOWSHIP INVOLVES: working inside the competition and seeing first-hand how a major platform discovers, reviews and champions new work; shaping curatorial decisions by bringing regional knowledge and cultural insight into the selection and interpretation of work; contributing to public-facing projects including exhibitions, editorial outputs and digital storytelling while developing your own writing, framing and curatorial voice; direct engagement with international judges, curators, artists, editors and cultural practitioners; and building a network across an international cohort of peers. WHO SHOULD APPLY: curators, critics, writers, researchers, artistic directors, photographers, organisers and cultural practitioners from global majority countries and historically underrepresented communities. Early-career practitioners and recent graduates are strongly encouraged, and a formal curatorial title is not required. HOW TO APPLY: read the full role description and FAQs on the fellowship page and submit the online application form; the organisers offer the application in alternative formats and are open to a conversation before applying. Applications close 22 September 2026.
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Fonds Podiumkunsten (Performing Arts Fund NL) · Activity must take place in the Netherlands. Applicants from Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Sint Maarten, Saba and Sint Eustatius are also in scope. No city or region restriction. · Deadline: 23 Sep 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 25,000 per production, capped at EUR 75,000 for an applicant presenting multiple productions. Calculated on travel and transport costs of the foreign artists and their production only. EUR 267,500 available per round shared across this scheme and two sibling internationalisation schemes. Fees, venue and production costs stay with the applicant. No application fee.
Fonds Podiumkunsten's route for Dutch festivals and venues bringing in exceptional foreign performing arts and concerts that Dutch audiences would otherwise not see. The applicant must be a Netherlands-registered legal entity running a venue or festival and carrying artistic and financial responsibility for its own programme, so individuals and sole traders cannot apply. Grants are calculated from travel and transport costs of the incoming artists, at a maximum of EUR 25,000 per production and EUR 75,000 per applicant across several productions. The core test is that the foreign work is rarely or never seen in the Netherlands and substantially enriches the existing Dutch offer, which favours experimental, non-canonical and cross-disciplinary programming over mainstream touring. Experimental music and sound-art programming is not excluded; the selection criterion is rarity and added value, not genre. Applications go through the Mijn Fonds portal and there is no fee. Four rounds run each year. TIMING: because the scheme competes against a shared EUR 267,500 per-round pot and assessment takes several weeks after the deadline, organisers should apply at least one full round ahead of the performance date and must not have the activity already underway. Success rate in 2025 was 60 percent of 33 applications.
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Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie · Netherlands · Deadline: 23 Sep 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 85,000 per festival; scheme ceiling EUR 1,350,000. Minimum 20 percent co-financing required. No application fee.
Annual scheme funding festival organisations in the creative industries (design, architecture, digital culture, fashion, e-culture, etc.) presenting a 2027 edition. Application window opens 25 August 2026 at 15:00 CEST and closes 23 September 2026 at 16:00 CEST. Supports both content programming and the organisational/curatorial running of a festival; applicants must be organisations rather than individuals, but the scheme is the natural home for any artist-led collective or platform that runs a critical-AI / digital-culture / surveillance-focused festival event. Note the wider 2026 context: Stimuleringsfonds is restructuring its grant offering for 2027, and several individual schemes (Design, Digital Culture) have been reduced to two rounds in 2026. The Festivals scheme is a separate annual track and one of the cleaner ways to access SCI funding for an event-format project.
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European Research Executive Agency (REA) / European Commission, Horizon Europe · European Union and associated countries. Consortium-based; typically requires partners from multiple EU/Horizon member states. · Deadline: 23 Sep 2026 · Award: Indicative total budget €85.5 million across 7 topics (2026 call). Individual project amounts vary by topic. Up to 100% funding rate for non-profit research organizations. No application fee.
Horizon Europe Cluster 2 funds research on culture, creativity, and inclusive society. The 2026 call (HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE, launched May 12, 2026) covers 7 topics with an indicative budget of €85.5 million. Topic HERITAGE-04 is explicitly titled 'Towards a fair and transparent market for cultural and creative content in the era of generative AI,' covering: impacts of generative AI on creative industries employment; upskilling needs for creative workers; policy and regulatory frameworks; fair remuneration and transparency. Highly relevant for research into AI and cultural/creative industries, artists' rights in the AI era, and sociotechnical studies of AI and culture. ELIGIBILITY: consortium-based applications (minimum 3 organisations from 3 different EU/associated countries are typical for Horizon RIA grants; check call conditions on the Funding & Tenders portal for specific requirements). Deadline: 23 September 2026. Apply via the EU Funding & Tenders portal (ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders).
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Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL) · Netherlands including the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Foundations (stichtingen) only. · Deadline: 23 Sep 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 75,000 per application, from a total budget of EUR 720,000. No application fee.
Joint open call from the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Cultural Participation Fund supporting platforms that develop design-based learning, covering product design, textile and fashion, spatial design and creative coding. Maximum EUR 75,000 per application from a EUR 720,000 pool, with regional quotas including the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. ELIGIBILITY IS NARROW: only foundations (stichtingen) may apply. Educational institutions and organisations already receiving four-year BIS funding are excluded, and individuals cannot apply. Deadline 23 September 2026, 16:00 CEST.
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Tech Policy Press · Fully remote, worldwide. International applicants explicitly encouraged; fellows work as independent contractors. No requirement to be authorised to work in the USA. · Deadline: 24 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 10,000 stipend per fellow, paid quarterly. Also included: editorial guidance from the Tech Policy Press team, membership of an international cohort with regular feedback and exchange, and monthly sessions to strengthen the work. Fellows' work is published on the Tech Policy Press website and promoted through the newsletter, podcast and events. No application fee.
Tech Policy Press is recruiting its 2027 fellowship cohort to pursue independent reporting and analysis on urgent questions at the intersection of technology and democracy. Since 2023 the programme has supported 25 fellows from 11 countries across three cohorts, writing on AI governance, tech regulation, digital rights and the entanglement of state and corporate power. WHO IT IS FOR: mid-career journalists, researchers, lawyers and public policy professionals with a strong background in a specific tech policy area, a particular geography, or technology's impact on democracy and society. Applicants from the Global Majority and from communities underrepresented in media are encouraged, as are projects that centre communities and regions usually excluded from global tech policy conversations. Contributions can range from original reporting to policy analysis, and technical practitioners are welcome as long as the work fits the publication's editorial purview. EXPECTATIONS: at least one piece of analysis or reporting per month (exclusive to Tech Policy Press, though it may be republished elsewhere), a mandatory hour-long monthly cohort meeting, a monthly check-in with the editorial team, collaboration with other fellows and the masthead, agreed deadlines, and disclosure of conflicts of interest. Applicants should arrive with a clear area of focus and a sense of how the work will inform both the public and decision-makers. APPLY via the online form by 11:59pm EDT on 24 September 2026, with a CV or resume, a cover letter of no more than two pages, links to prior publications (open access, published within the past three years, at least one in English and at least one solo-authored; social posts, pre-prints and unpublished coursework do not count) and two professional references. Shortlisted candidates may be invited to an online interview. Decisions are expected by early December 2026. Two optional Zoom information sessions run on 9 September at 8am EDT and 16 September at 7pm EDT; registration required.
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Department of Computing and Learning Systems) · Stockholm, Sweden · Deadline: 24 Sep 2026 · Award: Fully funded, full-time employed doctoral position with monthly salary according to KTH's collectively agreed doctoral student salary agreement, plus Swedish employee benefits. No application fee.
Fully funded four-year PhD position (third-cycle subject: Information and Communication Technology) on Feminist AI Addressing Gender-Based Violence, supervised by Associate Professor Amir Hossein Payberah at the Department of Computing and Learning Systems. The project develops AI methods that make online gender-based violence visible by detecting not only explicit abuse but also the structural silences and omissions that shape digital narratives, combining large language models, NLP and machine learning to identify missing voices, hidden patterns and gaps in institutional accountability. The doctoral student will develop novel ML models and evaluation methods, construct large-scale datasets and knowledge graphs, collaborate with feminist organizations and civil society partners, and publish in leading AI venues. ELIGIBILITY: a second-cycle (master's) degree, or at least 240 higher education credits including 60 second-cycle credits, or substantially equivalent knowledge, plus English equivalent to Swedish English B/6. APPLY via KTH's recruitment system (reference number PA-2026-2872) with certified copies of diplomas and grades, CV, an application letter of maximum 2 pages, representative publications or technical reports, and contact details for two to three academic references. Deadline 24 September 2026 at midnight CEST.
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American Academy in Berlin · Berlin, Germany, at the Hans Arnhold Center. RESTRICTED: fellowships are open only to citizens and permanent residents of the United States. · Deadline: 25 Sep 2026 · Award: Monthly stipend of USD 5,000, plus roundtrip airfare, accommodation at or near the Hans Arnhold Center, partial board, in-house library services and professional networking opportunities. Roughly two dozen fellowships awarded each year. No application fee.
The American Academy in Berlin is an independent, nonprofit institute for advanced study in the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, journalism and public policy, whose primary mission is to strengthen the cultural and intellectual ties between the United States and Germany. Each year, after a rigorous selection process, the Academy awards roughly two dozen semester-long Berlin Prize fellowships to individuals who demonstrate excellence in their fields. DISCIPLINES: applications are welcome across the humanities, social sciences, law, journalism and various areas of public policy. The Academy generally encourages projects addressing pressing issues of the day, specifically naming democracy, security, technology and society (especially AI), energy including climate, and global order. Dedicated fellowships also support projects in Jewish studies, German studies, and public health and biotechnology. Project proposals need not focus on Germany, but candidates should explain how a residency in Berlin would enhance their work. NOT ACCEPTED: proposals in mathematics or the natural sciences. NOTE FOR ARTISTS: visual artists and composers are invited through separate, nomination-based competitions, so there is no open application route for them here. ELIGIBILITY: fellowships are restricted to citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Both emerging and established figures are eligible. PhD holders qualify as emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work beyond the dissertation; candidates in non-academic fields such as journalism, filmmaking and policy need a significant record of publication or production; fiction and nonfiction writers must have published at least one book with a reputable press. WHAT FELLOWS DO: fellows present their work to audiences in and around Berlin through lectures, readings, public discussions, performances and film screenings, and should be willing to engage with relevant German institutions, organizations and the media; these activities are integral to the Academy's mission of fostering transatlantic dialogue. APPLICATION MATERIALS: a project proposal of 1,500 to 1,750 words plus a one-page bibliography; a curriculum vitae of up to 10 pages; two writing samples totalling no more than 60 pages; and three letters of recommendation, which are due 2 October 2026. DEADLINE: Friday 25 September 2026 at 12:00 noon Eastern Time (18:00 Central European Time). TIMELINE: all candidates are notified of the competition outcome by email in late March 2027; the 2027-28 Berlin Prize recipients are announced in May 2027.
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Gemeente Utrecht (Municipality of Utrecht) · Activity must have a presentation moment in Utrecht and benefit residents of the municipality of Utrecht. City-restricted by presentation location, not by applicant residence. · Deadline: 25 Sep 2026 · Award: Category A: EUR 1,000 to 5,000. Category B: EUR 5,000 to 20,000. No fixed co-financing percentage, but a budget and coverage plan is mandatory. eHerkenning purchase costs may be included in the budget and are reimbursed if awarded. No application fee.
Utrecht's main project fund for cultural activity with a public presentation in the city, covering all art forms including experimental and cross-disciplinary work. Individuals, foundations, associations and companies are all eligible. Two bands apply: Category A of EUR 1,000 to 5,000 assessed on artistic importance and entrepreneurship, and Category B of EUR 5,000 to 20,000 which adds meaning for the city as a third criterion. The activity must be exceptional or innovative, or otherwise of value to the city, its residents or the Utrecht cultural sector; professional projects and amateur, education or participation projects both qualify. Three rounds run each year and the next closes 25 September 2026 at 17:00 CET. TIMING RULE, which catches applicants out: for professional arts applications the presentation may not take place earlier than 13 weeks after the round's closing date, and for participatory applications the project may not start earlier than 13 weeks after that date, so a 25 September 2026 application supports activity from late December 2026 onward. Decisions are issued no later than 13 weeks after the closing date, following review by an independent Adviescommissie Projectsubsidies. Documentation is capped at 15 pages, or 5 pages if a video is included. Applications go through mijnsubsidie.utrecht.nl with DigiD or eHerkenning. Utrecht also runs a rolling Impulssubsidie Cultuur of up to EUR 2,500 for first-time applicants only, open through 31 December 2026.
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Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library · New York City, United States. Open internationally; fellows work in residence at NYPL's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. · Deadline: 25 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 90,000 stipend, plus an office at the library, full access to collections, and a September-May term. No application fee.
The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library awards fifteen fellowships a year to writers and scholars (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, translation, and academic research) whose projects draw on the Library's collections. Fellows receive USD 90,000, an office, and full research access for a September-May term in residence. Open internationally. Deadline 25 September 2026, 5pm EDT; apply via the NYPL online application portal.
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Centre for Democratic Resilience, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford · Oxford, UK (full-time, on site). Must hold or be close to completing a doctorate in political science or a related field. · Deadline: 25 Sep 2026 · Award: Salary GBP 39,424 to 51,983 per annum. Full-time, fixed-term for three years. No application fee.
The Centre for Democratic Resilience (CeDR) at the University of Oxford is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science and Text Analysis to join an interdisciplinary team building a new computational research agenda on risks to academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and higher education governance. The fellow leads computational analysis of large collections of legal, regulatory, and political texts, developing innovative NLP methods to analyse legislation, policy documents, and political discourse, with particular attention to Germany. REQUIREMENTS: a doctorate (held or near completion) in political science or a related field, with expertise in computational social science and natural language processing. TERMS: full-time, fixed-term for three years, based in Oxford, salary GBP 39,424 to 51,983. APPLICATION: online via the University of Oxford job pages with CV and supporting statement (job reference 188420); online interviews the week of 5 October 2026. Start 1 November 2026 or soon after. NOTE: this is a salaried research job, not a grant. DEADLINE: 25 September 2026, 12 noon UK time.
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The Grey Space in the Middle · The Hague, Netherlands · Deadline: 25 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 375 artist fee per selected artist, plus up to EUR 725 additional for co-organising and participating in the context programme (up to EUR 1,100 total)
The Grey Space in the Middle in The Hague invites young transdisciplinary makers based in the Netherlands whose practices engage with the intersections of art, technology and society to submit an existing artwork for State of States, a thematic exhibition diptych unfolding across two group shows (27 November - 6 December 2026 and 7 - 17 January 2027). The exhibition explores how artists locate themselves within a state, political or holistic, informed by digital culture: statehood, belonging, digitalism, inclusion/exclusion, space-claiming and network-systems are the guiding keywords. Selected artists are divided into groups of five per exhibition; each receives a EUR 375 fee, and can earn up to EUR 725 more for co-organising and participating in a context programme developed collectively between selection and build-up. APPLY with a description of the artwork (max 500 words), up to 10 images, recordings for moving image or sound work, a portfolio and a link to socials/website. Deadline: 25 September 2026, midnight.
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Stichting BNG Cultuurfonds (BNG Bank) · Project must take place in Dutch municipalities; projects largely abroad are excluded. Not region-restricted, but 2026 priority goes to Limburg, Overijssel, Drenthe and Zeeland. · Deadline: 27 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 5,000 minimum to EUR 15,000 maximum. The request must represent 5 to 35 percent of total project funding, so at least 65 percent co-financing is required. The fund is never the sole financier, and place-specific projects require at least one local or regional co-financier. No application fee.
BNG Cultuurfonds funds arts and culture projects that add value for Dutch municipalities and their inhabitants, explicitly including temporary exhibitions, public programmes and festivals developed by professional makers. Media art, digital culture and cross-disciplinary work qualify as long as a professional maker's artistic vision leads the project. Only stichtingen (foundations) may apply: no sole traders, associations, individuals, or foundations in formation. Applications go by email to aanvraag.cultuurfonds@bngbank.nl with a signed form, a project plan of at most 3,500 words, a specified budget and coverage plan, current statutes and a recent KvK extract. The grant is EUR 5,000 to 15,000 and can cover no more than 35 percent of the budget. TIMING IS THE MAIN TRAP: for the 27 September 2026 deadline, feedback comes at the end of December 2026 and the project may not start before 1 January 2027, with applications for earlier-starting projects rejected outright with no exceptions. Missing documents are flagged up to one week before the deadline, so anything submitted in the final week cannot be corrected. Plan for roughly four months of lead time. Excluded: amateur art, talent development, education-focused projects, semi-permanent public art, publications, building or renovation, and regular operating costs. Further rounds: 3 January 2027, 28 March 2027, 27 June 2027, 3 October 2027 and 2 January 2028.
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KB, National Library of the Netherlands · The Hague, Netherlands (two days per week on-site at the KB premises) · Deadline: 27 Sep 2026 · Award: Secondment at 0.5 FTE for 6 months based on your current salary, up to EUR 5,590 gross per month for a full-time-equivalent position, plus travel expenses, office facilities, and support from a research software engineer, research advisor, and collection and data specialists. No application fee.
ELIGIBILITY: two Researcher-in-Residence positions in 2027. Open to early-career researchers of any discipline (data science, social science, computer science, humanities) who are currently working on a PhD or within 5 years of their PhD end date. You must have, or be able to secure, an affiliation with a Dutch university or research institute willing to second you; external PhD students may use the funding to obtain such a contract. Your project must make use of one or more of the KB digital collections and you must be able to work with primarily Dutch data. You must be available at 0.5 FTE over 6 months and able to spend two days a week on-site at the KB in The Hague. COLLECTIONS: over 130 million digitized pages of newspapers, magazines, radio bulletins and books from 1470 onward (via Delpher and DBNL), a born-digital web collection of more than 23,000 websites, ground-truth and derived datasets on the KB Lab, and metadata including Linked Data. APPLY: use the official proposal template and submit a single PDF by 27 September 2026 to dh@kb.nl, after reading the call's terms and conditions; questions to dh@kb.nl. TIMELINE: deadline 27 September 2026; internal eligibility review followed by an external committee review; outcome notified November 2026; residencies start Q1 and Q3 2027. DISCIPLINES: digital humanities / data science / computational research with cultural-heritage collections. NOTE: the output is usually a dataset or tool prototype hosted on the KB Lab; you agree to share results via blog posts on the KB Lab and to publish resulting tools or data under an open license within 6 months of the residency. Proposals should align with the KB Research Agenda or the Cultural AI Lab.
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Medialab Matadero · Madrid, Spain. In-person residency; open internationally to individuals and collectives. · Deadline: 27 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 10,000 per project (before taxes) for three selected projects, plus individual workspace, Fablab and technical materials, curatorial guidance, and logistical and financial support for public activities. No application fee.
Medialab Matadero in Madrid selects three projects for a research and creation residency bringing together contemporary art, design, science, technology and society, welcoming critical, experimental and collaborative work. Each project must connect clearly with one or more themes from Medialab's recent programs: LAB 1 Sentient Media, LAB 2 The Metabolic Sublime, LAB 3 Synthetic Minds, LAB 4 Weird Futures and LAB 5 The Mechanics of Truth. Open to individuals and collectives from any discipline (design, art, architecture, film, journalism, digital media, environmental science, philosophy, engineering, programming, activism and more). SUPPORT: EUR 10,000 per project (before taxes), individual workspace, access to the Fablab and technical materials, curatorial team guidance, and logistical and financial support for public activities; proposals must include public engagement plans and produce documentation. RESIDENCY: January to July 2027, in person in Madrid. DEADLINE: 27 September 2026. No application fee.
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CTM Festival, co-curated by Stas Sharifulla · Berlin, Germany. Open to artists worldwide; solo artists and projects only. · Deadline: 28 Sep 2026 · Award: Travel budget of up to EUR 300 per person, plus accommodation and catering for the duration of the lab and a festival pass to CTM 2027 events. Visa fees are supported where required, and letters of invitation are provided for visa or funding applications. NO artist fee or stipend for the lab itself. Afterwards, up to two new works arising from the lab may be commissioned and presented at CTM Festival in January/February 2028. No application fee.
Resynthesising the Traditional is CTM Festival's long-term initiative co-curated by Stas Sharifulla, taking resynthesis (the computer-music method of analysing a sound to extract its components) as a metaphor for critically engaging with tradition and heritage, against conservative views of culture as frozen and untouchable. The artistic lab at its heart is an open toolbox for artists connecting to the traditional outside exoticisation, cultural essentialism and uneven power dynamics. THEME, AT THE EXTREME: this edition invites artists and practice-based researchers whose work examines the ethical, aesthetic and political implications of traditions entangled with extremity: intensity, transgression, transformation, marginality, outsiderness, endurance, conflict and excess. The call explicitly looks past the usual noise, violence and loud-popular-music tropes and past masculine codings of the extreme, toward current queer and feminist reframings, treating extremity as a relational condition, chosen or imposed, produced between majoritarian centres and their minoritarian outsides. Guiding questions include what it means to follow a tradition to its extreme consequences, who is allowed to push tradition to its limits and whose practices get framed as inauthentic or dangerous, what it means to practise tradition under war, displacement, repression or ecological crisis, and how traditions might offer ways of inhabiting extreme times. Preference goes to work engaging technological, bodily, aesthetic and theoretical forms at that intersection, especially in unexpected or rarely recognised ways. WHAT HAPPENS: theory and practice workshops from the co-hosts with individual and group exercises, closed 15 to 20 minute oral presentations by each participant, a solo public performance or presentation (15 to 20 minutes) at a free-entry event, inputs from specialists such as artists, researchers and technologists, guided individual and group sonic improvisations, field trips and site visits, and feedback sessions with the co-hosts and curators. AFTERWARDS: participants may propose new artistic work or research, solo or in collaborations formed at the lab, to the artistic team; selected works are shortlisted, and up to two are commissioned and presented at CTM in January/February 2028. ELIGIBILITY: an existing practice tied to (re)connecting with traditional ideas and sounds through a contemporary lens and how that overlaps with the extreme, plus clear ideas or questions about the next step you want to take. Approaches may be technological, instrument-focused, compositional, aesthetic, research-oriented or otherwise. Working knowledge of English is recommended, and any concerns about that can be flagged in the form. Up to six participants are selected by co-hosts Karina Utomo (extreme metal vocalist, composer and collaborative artist) and Luigi Monteanni (sound researcher and ethnomusicologist completing a PhD at SOAS on extreme metal in Bandung). The lab is a time-intensive full-day commitment and participants must agree to give the short public performance. APPLY through the form with a portfolio link (PDF, max 10 pages, public access, works from the last five years, text kept minimal) and a link to a specific audio track or section (max five minutes) that best represents your current practice. CTM asks that AI support rather than replace your own voice in the application. TIMELINE: deadline 28 September 2026; participants announced mid to late October 2026. Questions to resynth@ctm-festival.de.
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Ars Electronica and Ceske Budejovice - European Capital of Culture 2028 · Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. Open to applicants of any nationality aged 18+ who are legally eligible to work and travel in the EU. Required on-site stays: up to one month in February/March 2027, an optional stay in August/September 2027, and March 2028 for installation, exhibition and deinstallation. · Deadline: 28 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 24,000 total package per winner: EUR 6,000 artist fee, up to EUR 15,000 production budget, and up to EUR 3,000 for travel, accommodation and subsistence, plus a separate budget covering one month of housing in Ceske Budejovice. Two positions available. Free to apply.
A fully funded art-science residency from Ars Electronica and Ceske Budejovice, European Capital of Culture 2028, exploring how art and science can collaborate on urgent environmental challenges: climate emergence, sustainable agriculture, geoengineering, permaculture, water resource management, and the broader ecological impacts on local communities. Selected residents work in direct collaboration with local scientists in Ceske Budejovice. WHO CAN APPLY: artists, designers, creatives and artist collectives with more than 5 years of professional creative practice and documented interdisciplinary work; experience in community engagement and science collaborations is essential; applicants must be 18+, of any nationality, and legally eligible to work and travel in the EU. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 24,000 package (EUR 6,000 artist fee, up to EUR 15,000 production, up to EUR 3,000 travel and subsistence) plus one month of housing covered separately; two winners are selected. STRUCTURE: the residency runs January 2027 to April 2028, with a required on-site stay of up to one month in February/March 2027, an optional stay in August/September 2027, and a March 2028 stay for festival installation, exhibition and deinstallation. HOW TO APPLY: online form with project title, a written proposal of max 250 words, a scientific direction statement (max 100 words), artistic vision (max 100 words), community connection plan (max 100 words), a super short pitch (3 to 30 words), 3 to 7 images, an optional 1-minute video, a portfolio link and contact information. Two-round selection (online application then interview); winners notified by November 2026. Deadline 28 September 2026 at midnight CET.
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK Research and Innovation · United Kingdom. Lead applicant must be employed by, or hold a formal written arrangement with, a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding. Project activities must take place in the UK. · Deadline: 29 Sep 2026 · Award: GBP 150,000 to 200,000 per project at 100 percent full economic cost; AHRC funds 80 percent and the host research organisation must cover the remaining 20 percent. Total fund GBP 1,000,000, approximately 5 awards. Covers research staff time, design prototyping, partner costs and public engagement activity. Subcontractors and PhD studentships are not fundable. No application fee.
Design Generators round two funds design-led research projects combining design interventions with arts and humanities methodologies to contribute to the green transition. Eligible activity includes design research prototyping, circular business model exploration, strengthening third-sector resilience, skills development, policy and strategy work, and public engagement programmes, so exhibition-style and public-facing outputs are in scope where they sit inside a research project. Awards are GBP 150,000 to 200,000 at 100 percent full economic cost with AHRC paying 80 percent, meaning the host organisation carries a 20 percent institutional contribution. The lead must be a postdoctoral-standing researcher at an AHRC-eligible UK research organisation, and every project must pair that lead with at least one non-academic co-lead from business, the public sector, the third sector or a community organisation, which is the practical entry point for an arts organisation. Freelancers and independent consultants cannot lead. The opportunity opened 21 July 2026 and closes 29 September 2026 at 4:00pm UK time. Decision lag is roughly three months from the deadline. IMPORTANT: this round explicitly excludes international stakeholders and international activity, so non-UK partners cannot be involved.
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Algorave Istanbul · Istanbul, Turkiye. Applicants must be based in Istanbul. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: UNPAID, and no figure of any kind is published. The call states no fee, honorarium, stipend or expenses; it is an invitation to join a local live-coding community and perform with it. Listed here as a deliberate exception to the desk's paid-only rule because it is one of very few live-coding openings in the region. No application fee.
UNPAID COMMUNITY CALL. Algorave Istanbul, the local node of the international algorave scene (live-coded music and visuals performed for an audience), is looking for new artists to create, experiment and perform with. The call names live coding, sound, visuals, audiovisual performance, and generative or reactive systems, and says explicitly that it is open to formats the organisers have not thought of yet. WHO CAN APPLY: artists based in Istanbul. There is no stated experience requirement and no selection process described. Applications close 30 September 2026. WHAT IS OFFERED: performance opportunities and collaboration within the collective. No fee, stipend or expenses are mentioned anywhere in the call, so treat this as unpaid unless the organisers say otherwise. APPLY through the Google Form, or email algoraveistanbul@gmail.com. The call is published in Turkish and English.
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Festival de Cannes (Cinéma de Demain / La Résidence) · Paris, France. Candidates must not be residents or citizens of France. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: Fully supported: a place of residence in central Paris, a personalised script-writing programme, and a collective programme of forums with film industry professionals. Directors present at the CNC pavilion in Cannes, where the CNC awards a EUR 5,000 grant to one director per session. Free to apply.
La Résidence of the Festival de Cannes (part of Cinéma de Demain, formerly La Cinéfondation) invites 12 directors each year to write their screenplay in Paris. The programme provides a place of residence in the heart of Paris, a personalised programme accompanying the writing of their scripts, and a collective programme of forums with film industry professionals. The 12 directors from the two annual sessions present their projects at the CNC pavilion in Cannes, giving 10-minute presentations to an audience of professionals and a jury of three film industry personalities; the CNC then awards a EUR 5,000 grant to one director from each session, based on the project that most inspires the jury. The Cinef & Résidence offices serve as a hub where directors meet and schedule private meetings with potential producers. ELIGIBILITY: open to young filmmakers who have made one or several short films and no more than one feature film; candidates must NOT be residents or citizens of France. Selected filmmakers must stay at the Résidence in Paris for the full session. SESSIONS: two per year, each lasting four and a half months, the first running 15 March to 31 July and the second 1 October to 15 February. Artistic fields: film, writing, interdisciplinary. Deadline: 30 September 2026 at 16:00 UTC. Free to apply.
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Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven · Eindhoven. The applicant must be a legal entity based in Eindhoven and the activity must serve the Eindhoven cultural offering. City-restricted at the applicant level. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 35,000 per application and maximum 80 percent of eligible costs, so at least 20 percent co-financing is required. No application fee.
The mid-size project strand of Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven, the arm's-length body that distributes the city's culture budget, and the main municipal route for an Eindhoven organisation to fund a festival, exhibition or public programme. Awards go up to EUR 35,000 and cover a maximum of 80 percent of eligible costs, so at least a fifth of the budget must come from elsewhere. Unlike the Snelgeld strand this route is closed to individuals: only private-law legal entities established in Eindhoven may apply. Rounds run three times a year in fixed windows; the next opens 1 September and closes at 17:00 on 30 September 2026, which is round 1 of the 2027 cycle. TIMING: the decision lag is long by municipal standards at up to 13 weeks after the submission window closes, so a September 2026 application is decided around the end of December 2026 and activity should be planned for 2027. Given Eindhoven's design and technology profile, media-art, design and creative-technology programming fits the remit particularly well. The parallel Snelgeld strand offers up to EUR 5,000 on rolling intake, reopening 1 September 2026 and running until 31 December 2026 or until the tranche budget is exhausted, whichever comes first.
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musikfonds e.V. · Germany. Applicants and projects based in Germany; excludes pure audio/video productions, university and amateur-only projects. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: Up to EUR 50,000 per project (minimum 10 percent co-financing; artist fee at least EUR 300 per concert). No application fee.
Musikfonds Large Project Funding supports new, experimental and contemporary music projects with grants of up to EUR 50,000. A minimum 10 percent co-financing is required and the artist fee must be at least EUR 300 per concert. Applicants and projects must be based in Germany; pure audio or video productions, university projects and amateur-only projects are excluded. The application window runs 1 to 30 September 2026. NOTE: research-sourced; confirm current figures and window dates on the Musikfonds site before applying.
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Fonds Ernest Solvay, managed with the support of the King Baudouin Foundation · Organisations implementing a project within a 100 km radius of a Solvay industrial, R&I or administrative site · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: Up to EUR 10,000 per initiative. Funding covers only expenses incurred after the results are announced (mid-December 2026); already-incurred expenses are not reimbursed. No application fee.
The Ernest Solvay Fund provides financial support for local-impact initiatives in three areas: scientific education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), planet progress (environmental initiatives) and better life (community well-being). ELIGIBILITY: organisations submitting a project must implement it within a 100 km radius of a Solvay industrial, R&I or administrative site. FUNDING: up to EUR 10,000 per initiative; the Fund covers expenses incurred only after the results are announced (mid-December 2026) and will not reimburse expenses incurred beforehand. APPLY: create or log in to an account at https://candidate.kbs-frb.be and complete the online application form (it can be saved and completed in several stages). Applications are open 15 April 2026 to 30 September 2026; results announced mid-December 2026.
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We Are Human Foundation · Paris, France (Forum des images screening 24 November 2026) · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: Grand Prix EUR 5,000; Best Screenplay EUR 3,000; Ethics Award EUR 2,000. No submission fee.
Call for short films (1-10 minutes) involving human/AI hybrid creation, from the We Are Human Foundation in Paris. Three cash awards: Grand Prix EUR 5,000, Best Screenplay EUR 3,000, and an Ethics Award EUR 2,000. ELIGIBILITY: international, applicants 18+; films must have been completed after 1 June 2025 and involve human/AI hybrid creation; a mandatory Ethics Notebook accompanies each submission. No submission fee. Festival screening at Forum des images, Paris, on 24 November 2026. Apply via FilmFreeway; deadline 30 September 2026.
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Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination · Paris, France (Reid Hall). Any nationality; artists must NOT be permanently resident in the United States. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 75,000 stipend, plus housing at Reid Hall in Paris and office and research support, September 2027 to May 2028. No application fee.
Columbia University's Institute for Ideas and Imagination brings a cohort of scholars and artists to Reid Hall in Paris for an academic year (September 2027 to May 2028), with a USD 75,000 stipend, housing, and research support. The creative-arts category explicitly includes visual and sound arts and film alongside writing and composition. ELIGIBILITY: any nationality, but artists must not be permanently residentent in the United States (Netherlands-based artists qualify). Deadline 30 September 2026.
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European Cultural Foundation · Archives held at the Historical Archives of the European Union, Florence, Italy. Open to artists able to work with the archives. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 10,000 artistic-research grant covering travel, accommodation, and living costs; output delivered within 2 years. No application fee.
The European Cultural Foundation invites artists to research its historical archives, held at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence, through a new Artistic Research Fellowship with a EUR 10,000 grant covering travel, accommodation, and living costs; the artistic output is delivered within two years. A strong fit for archive-driven, research-based, and critical data practices. Deadline 30 September 2026, 17:00 CET. ELIGIBILITY: professional creatives in visual arts, performing arts, film and audiovisual practices, podcasting and audio storytelling, documentary, journalism or literary practices, who can demonstrate a research-based practice and a clear dissemination strategy. Applications and all supporting documentation must be in English, submitted via the online form. Fellows work at the HAEU inside the scholarly community of the European University Institute, with the archives housed at Villa Salviati. A parallel Academic Research Fellowship of EUR 5,000, for PhD and postdoctoral researchers, early-career researchers within ten years of their master's or doctorate, and independent scholars, is listed separately on the desk and shares this deadline.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars · Remote for the duration of the fellowship, with two required trips to Washington DC (at the start and the end) for which travel costs are covered. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: USD 10,000 per month for a twelve-month fellowship, plus covered travel for the two required trips to Washington DC. No application fee.
The Wilson Center, the congressionally chartered nonpartisan policy research institution in Washington DC, awards 10 to 20 research fellowships for its 2027-2028 class. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest while interacting with policymakers in Washington and with other fellows. The Center accepts policy-relevant, nonpartisan proposals that address key foreign policy challenges confronting the United States and the world, and projects must align with at least one of the Center's four scholarship pillars: strategic competition, economic statecraft, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, and regional scholarship. The technology and innovation pillar is the relevant route for AI governance, emerging technology and digital policy projects, which the Center also supports through its Science and Technology Innovation Program. Fellows work remotely for the duration of the fellowship; the Center covers travel costs for two required trips to Washington DC at the beginning and the conclusion of the term. The stipend is USD 10,000 per month for the twelve-month term, which runs 1 June 2027 to 30 May 2028. ELIGIBILITY: academic candidates need a PhD in hand and either a published book or monograph beyond the dissertation, or a substantial body of research articles (five or more) in reputable peer-reviewed journals. Non-academic applicants (practitioners, journalists, public intellectuals) need at least ten years of relevant experience and a record of substantial policy impact. There is no citizenship restriction, but English proficiency is required. Applications, including letters of recommendation, must be submitted online via Interfolio by 11:59pm ET on 30 September 2026. Questions: fellowships@wilsoncenter.org. NOTE: this is an open-topic foreign policy fellowship, not an AI-specific one; the technology angle depends on how you scope the proposal.
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Waag Futurelab (Horizon Europe project HAMLET) · Europe. Engaging with a specific AI Enabler includes an on-site visit to its technology partner: CERTH (Greece), The Audience Agency (Warrington, UK), the Centre of Excellence for Research & Innovation (Cyprus), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), or CAUSA Creation (Austria). Final presentations September 2027. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 20,000 commission fee excluding VAT, inclusive of artist fee, travel, accommodation and production costs. Applicants must have a VAT number in Europe. No application fee.
Waag Futurelab invites artists, theatre makers, choreographers, dancers, game designers and other creative practitioners to engage directly with seven experimental generative AI Enablers being co-created with technologists and dance, theatre and gaming professionals. The call is an invitation into the development process: selected artists get access to the technologies, datasets, interfaces and assumptions that shape these systems while they are still being built. Rather than testing whether the systems work, artists are asked to interrogate why they work the way they do, who they are designed for, what forms of creativity they enable or constrain, and what assumptions about culture, intelligence, authorship, labour, bodies, audiences and society are embedded in them. Waag is looking for individuals and collectives willing to move beyond adoption into investigation, and welcomes proposals that are speculative, critical, poetic, provocative, humorous, performative, constructive or disruptive, including work that challenges, misuses, reimagines, hacks, subverts or plays with the tools, exposes hidden biases, questions environmental costs, or imagines alternative technological futures. THE SEVEN AI ENABLERS, each requiring an on-site visit to its technology partner: the Generic Procedural Content Generation Enabler (text-to-3D assets and avatars, CERTH, Greece); the Data-Driven Cultural Content Adaptation Enabler (audience-aware creative content ideation with ranked candidate ideas, CERTH, Greece); the Cross-Domain Audience Engagement Analytics Enabler (turning heterogeneous cultural participation data into interpretable engagement signals, The Audience Agency, Warrington, UK); the Dance Style Analysis and Generation Enabler (dance video into virtual 3D choreography, dissected into body, effort, shape and space components, Centre of Excellence for Research & Innovation, Cyprus); the Immersive Design Integration Enabler for Dance & Theatre (NLP-driven XR environments with speech-to-3D scene editing, Cyprus); the Music-to-Movement Translation Enabler (audio into a time-aligned feature set spanning genre classification, emotional valence-arousal analysis, rhythm extraction and latent-space projection, feeding motion generation, spatial audio and visual choreography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); and the Adaptive Narrative Enabler for Games & Theatre (an evolutionary AI trained on creator-written story elements that generates infinite story variations, explicitly rejecting LLMs because of their dependence on copyrighted or public-domain corpora that encode 19th and early 20th century sexism, racism and imperialism, CAUSA Creation, Austria). ELIGIBILITY: artists, designers, creative technologists, theatre makers, dancers, choreographers and game designers, as individuals or collectives; applicants must hold a European VAT number. An info session with live demonstrations of the AI Enablers runs 31 July 2026, 10:00 to 11:30 CEST (meeting ID 995 7016 2341). Applications go through Homerun using the official Application Template, uploaded as a PDF; read the Guide for Applicants, which contains the full Enabler descriptions, before applying. Questions: zoenie at waag dot org. The AI Enablers and this call are part of the Horizon Europe project HAMLET, which aims to make generative AI accessible to cultural organisations of all sizes. Closes 30 September 2026, 23:59 CEST. Free to apply.
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d/p, sponsored by NakwonSangga · d/p, 417 Nakwon Arcade, 428 Samil-daero, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Interviews are held offline in principle, with online interviews possible for applicants abroad or in other exceptional circumstances. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: Curatorial grant of KRW 4,000,000 (including tax) per selected curator or team, plus use of d/p's approximately 187 square metre exhibition space for a five-week exhibition and curatorial collaboration with the d/p team. Approximately two curators or teams are selected. No application fee.
d/p is an independent alternative exhibition space in the Nakwon Arcade, the historic mixed-use commercial and residential complex in Jongno-gu, Seoul built in 1968. Its Curator Support programme, sponsored by NakwonSangga, has selected two to three independent curators every year since 2018, giving each an exhibition venue, curatorial collaboration with the d/p team, and a modest curatorial grant to develop and realise their curatorial practice. ELIGIBILITY: individual curators or teams with at least one curating experience within the past three years. The applying curator or team cannot participate in the exhibition as an artist; curators and artists must be clearly distinguished. SELECTION: approximately two individuals or teams. WHAT IS PROVIDED: a curatorial grant of KRW 4,000,000 including tax; use of the d/p exhibition space of approximately 187 square metres; and a five-week exhibition slot somewhere between March and December 2027, with installation and deinstallation time counted separately from the five weeks. PROCESS: first round is a document review of the APPLICATION and PROPOSAL submitted in the provided format; second round is individual interviews followed by final selection. Interviews are conducted offline in principle, but may be held online if the applicant is abroad or in other exceptional circumstances. HOW TO APPLY: submit the APPLICATION via the Google Form and the PROPOSAL by email to dslashp@gmail.com between 3 August and 30 September 2026. The proposal template is downloadable from the link in the @dslashp Instagram bio. File name format: '2027 d/p Curator Support Application_Applicant Name'. Submit as PDF; if the proposal includes video, provide a link rather than a file. KEY DATES: submissions 3 August to 30 September 2026; first round results announced in the first week of October 2026 by individual contact; second round interviews in the second week of October 2026; final selection announced in the third week of October 2026 by individual contact and on the @dslashp account. Inquiries: Minji Lee, Curator, dslashp@gmail.com.
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HOBAN Cultural Foundation · Online submission, with the awards ceremony and exhibition in South Korea. Open to all regardless of career, nationality or age. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: Total prize pool of KRW 21,000,000 across 20 winners, paid after deduction of applicable taxes and public charges. Grand Prize KRW 5,000,000 (selected regardless of category); in each of the two categories, First Prize KRW 2,000,000, three Second Prizes of KRW 1,000,000 each, and five Honorable Finalist awards of KRW 500,000 each; plus a HOBAN Group President's Award of KRW 1,000,000. Winners also receive plaques and certificates, online and offline exhibition opportunities, and a feature on the official online platform. No entry fee is mentioned.
NEXT ART AI is an open AI art competition run by the HOBAN Cultural Foundation, welcoming participants of all backgrounds regardless of career, nationality or age, and framed as a way to reflect on the future of AI art through new modes of expression and artistic experimentation. TWO CATEGORIES: AI IMAGE ART, for works in a single-image format at 150dpi or higher, submitted as JPG, JPEG, PNG or BMP up to 10MB; and AI VIDEO ART, open to a wide range of video formats including animation, motion graphics and live-action footage enhanced or transformed using AI, at 1080p or higher, under one minute, 30 or 60fps recommended, stereo 48kHz audio recommended, as mp4 (h.264) or mov. Video entries are submitted as a URL via YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox or OneDrive, or an alternative platform if those are restricted in your region; links that are inaccessible due to privacy settings may be excluded from judging. WHO CAN ENTER: individuals or teams of up to three including the representative, though you may not submit both as an individual and as part of a team. Team representatives create the account in their own name and all members submit a consent form for personal data. Applicants under 19 need a guardian's signed consent. One work may be submitted per category. RULES ON AI AND ASSETS: work must be original and created by the applicant or team, and must be image or video art created using generative AI platforms. Works that have previously won an award in another competition are not eligible. Free or paid external assets, game engines, AI frameworks, open-source tools and editing software may be used freely, but applicants must hold licences permitting commercial use for every element, and work infringing third-party rights is excluded. Even where external assets and editing software are used, the creative process must involve AI, whether AI-assisted direction, transformation, generation or other AI-based processes, and the choice of AI tools, the scope and method of their use, and the prompts themselves are all weighed in evaluating the creative use of AI. TIMELINE: applications open 1 September 2026 and close 30 September 2026 at 11:59pm KST, preliminary round early October, final round late October, announcement and ceremony early November, exhibition late November 2026. Organised and hosted by the HOBAN Cultural Foundation, sponsored by HOBAN Group, with Seoul Shinmun and EBN as media partners. Details and schedule are subject to change at the organiser's discretion.
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European Cultural Foundation, hosted at the Historical Archives of the European Union · Historical Archives of the European Union, Villa Salviati, Florence, Italy, within the European University Institute. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 5,000 grant to support a research stay at the HAEU, covering travel, accommodation and living expenses. The parallel Artistic Research Fellowship carries EUR 10,000 and additionally covers artistic production. No application fee.
The academic track of the ECF Fellowship Programme, which fosters new research engaging with the history of the European Cultural Foundation and the broader role of culture in European integration. The ECF was established in 1954 by figures including Denis de Rougemont, Robert Schuman, Hendrik Brugmans and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, on the belief that Europe will not be built by treaties alone. Over seventy years it has produced programmes, institutes, campaigns and collaborations, including a contribution to shaping and implementing the ERASMUS student mobility scheme. That legacy is now preserved at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence alongside the records of the EU's main institutions, a placement that itself recognises the Foundation's role in European integration. ELIGIBILITY for the Academic Research Fellowship: researchers in European studies, cultural studies, history and related fields across the humanities and social sciences, specifically PhD and postdoctoral researchers, early-career researchers within ten years of completing a master's or doctoral degree, and independent scholars with an active research profile. Fellows work at the HAEU embedded in the international scholarly community of the European University Institute, with the archives housed at Villa Salviati. Applications and all supporting documentation must be submitted in English through the online form. NOTE: this is the EUR 5,000 academic track. The EUR 10,000 Artistic Research Fellowship, open to professional creatives in visual arts, performing arts, film and audiovisual practices, podcasting and audio storytelling, documentary, journalism and literary practices, is listed separately on the desk and shares the same deadline.
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transmediale e.V. · Berlin, Germany. Berlin-based or willing to relocate for key periods; relocation to Berlin is required from October/November 2027. Open internationally; applicants must be fluent in English or German with at least a good command of English. · Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 · Award: EUR 40,000 net for an individual or EUR 50,000 net for a group, as a freelance contract covering December 2026 to March 2028 (ca. 70% commitment overall, full-time from October 2027). Possible contract extension for the 2029 edition, decided by the Advisory and Executive Board in summer 2027. No application fee.
transmediale e.V. invites applications for the Festival Curation of transmediale 2028, the Berlin festival for art and digital culture now in its 40th year. Since 2025 transmediale appoints a new curator for each edition, each bringing their own positionality on the present moment in art and technology; the organisation is especially interested in curatorial approaches that bring genuinely new questions and reference points to the field, grounded in critical reflection and political engagement rather than following technological trends. THE ROLE: develop the curatorial concept and full programme for transmediale 2028 (last week of January 2028), spanning a discourse programme (lectures, panels, conversations, presentations, talks), a workshop programme, a video and film programme, a performance programme, and art projects presented during the festival days, plus events from longstanding and new partnerships. The curator works closely with the festival team, represents the festival publicly, plays an active role in fundraising, and contributes to transmediale's local and international networks. TASKS: establishing the festival concept, theme and title; developing the event and programme structure with festival management and the executive and advisory board; selecting participants, projects and artworks; producing related texts and contributing to public relations and fundraising; adhering to budget management policies and helping acquire additional financial resources; collaborating with the team and submitting reports throughout. REQUIREMENTS: comprehensive knowledge of international contemporary and media art with the ability to critically examine the intersection of art, technology, media, science, society and politics; a clear curatorial and thematic vision; at least 5 years of experience in programme development across multiple formats with an experimental approach (experience leading cultural projects is advantageous); solid fundraising experience for cultural and artistic projects; a supra-regional network in the art and cultural scenes; excellent communication skills, integrity and a collaborative mindset; fluency in English or German; alignment with transmediale's values. CONDITIONS: freelance position, December 2026 until March 2028, ca. 70% commitment across the contract period and full-time from October 2027; Berlin-based or willing to relocate for key periods, with relocation to Berlin required from October/November 2027; the position may be filled by an individual or a group. A contract extension for the 2029 edition will be considered in summer 2027. SUBMISSION: application form (downloadable from the call page) plus a cover letter of under 700 words, via the submission platform only; additional documents are not reviewed. Queries to apply[at]transmediale.de. Deadline 30 September 2026, 23:59 CET.
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Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung · International, no stated country restriction on the organising institution, though the Foundation is Swiss and German in orientation and administration. · Deadline: 01 Oct 2026 · Award: No published minimum or maximum. Primarily covers artistic costs, not overheads. The Foundation explicitly will not fully fund a project, and requires at least one other institution to participate financially at a level similar to the amount requested, functioning as a de facto 1:1 match. No application fee.
One of the largest private funders of contemporary and new music in Europe, and it funds the organising side of the field rather than individual artists, which makes it directly usable by festivals. Eligible activity includes festivals, world premieres and revivals, composition commissions, events, academies and workshops, education projects, symposia and musicological publications. Experimental and contemporary sound programming is the core remit; this is not a classical-repertoire fund. There are two annual deadlines: 1 October at 14:00 CEST for projects starting the following year with decisions by year-end, and 1 March for projects starting in July or later with decisions by end of June. Grant sizes are not published, and the Foundation aims funding at artistic rather than overhead costs. Only the organising institution may apply and only legal entities qualify: cultural institutions, orchestra managers, festival organisers and ensembles. Self-applications and applications from individuals are explicitly refused. VOLUME LIMITS are strict and worth planning around: each institution may submit one application per deadline, may be supported for only one project per year, and may be supported for a maximum of three projects across three consecutive years.
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Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion · Berlin, Germany. Women film and video artists based in Berlin only. · Deadline: 01 Oct 2026 · Award: Work stipend for women film and video artists; the amount for this round is not yet confirmed (sibling Senate work stipends pay EUR 2,000 per month). No application fee.
Work stipends for women film and video artists under the Berlin Senate's Kuenstlerinnenfoerderung (women artists' funding program). ELIGIBILITY: women film and video artists based in Berlin. Deadline 1 October 2026, 11:00 CEST, per the Senate's official deadline calendar. NOTE: research-sourced from the Senate deadline calendar; the stipend amount was not published there, so confirm details on the Senate funding pages before applying.
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Dutch national cultural funds (Rijkscultuurfondsen), via the Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands. For professional makers and organisations based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom whose practice spans multiple disciplines. · Deadline: 01 Oct 2026 · Award: EUR 12,500 to 50,000 per project. The individual-maker track is approximately EUR 24,900 for 12 months (income cap EUR 55,000 including the grant).
The Interdisciplinary grant is a new joint scheme of the six Dutch national cultural funds (Mondriaan Fund, Performing Arts Fund NL, Fund for Cultural Participation, Netherlands Film Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, and the Dutch Foundation for Literature), announced on 7 July 2026. It supports makers and organisations whose work genuinely crosses the boundaries of the individual funds' disciplines (visual art, design, film, literature, performing arts, and cultural participation) and cannot be contained within a single discipline. TWO TRACKS: an Individual track for professional makers with a demonstrable interdisciplinary practice (at least one year of experience; income cap EUR 55,000 including the grant; approximately EUR 24,900 for 12 months); and an Organisation track for organisations running multi-discipline projects. AMOUNT: EUR 12,500 to 50,000 per project. ELIGIBILITY: makers and organisations based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. APPLYING: handled through the Mondriaan Fund's online application portal (info@mondriaanfonds.nl); an account is required in advance. DEADLINE: 1 October 2026, 16:00 Dutch time (single application round).
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Fund for Investigative Journalism (Alicia Patterson Foundation program) · Remote; fellows may live anywhere, but projects must be U.S.-focused for publication in American outlets · Deadline: 01 Oct 2026 · Award: $40,000 (12-month fellowship) or $20,000 (6-month fellowship), paid monthly; covers living and reporting costs
Long-running fellowship for in-depth, investigative written reporting on subjects of public interest, now administered by the Fund for Investigative Journalism after the foundation's December 2025 merger. For seasoned reporters with a body of in-depth written work; freelancers are encouraged and staff journalists may apply if they take leave (part-time work is allowed during the fellowship, full-time is not). Twelve-month fellows produce four articles, six-month fellows two. Decisions by end of 2026. Distinct from FIJ's regular reporting grants. No application fee.
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Pandora Short Film Grant · United States (early-career US filmmakers) · Deadline: 01 Oct 2026 · Award: $12,000 production grant to the winner, plus a Panavision camera package (worth about $15,000), an optional $1,000 Kodak Film Grant toward film stock and lab expenses, mentorship from an award-winning filmmaker, and fiscal sponsorship. Three finalists receive mentorship, fiscal sponsorship, consideration for the Panavision New Filmmaker Program, and $500 off Athos production insurance. ENTRY FEE: tiered, $30 regular ($27 Gold members) and $40 late ($36); Pandora states fee waivers are available on request.
The Pandora Short Film Grant is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that awards an annual $12,000 grant to an early-career US filmmaker for the production of a narrative short film. Projects at script stage or already filmed and seeking finishing funds are both eligible. The winner also receives a Panavision camera package (about $15,000), an optional $1,000 Kodak Film Grant, mentorship from an award-winning filmmaker (2026 mentors include Alma Har'el, Lila Neugebauer, Lauren Wolkstein, Sarah Elizabeth Mintz and Chris Merola), and fiscal sponsorship; three finalists receive mentorship, fiscal sponsorship, Panavision New Filmmaker Program consideration and discounted production insurance. ELIGIBILITY: open to all early-career US filmmakers; applicants are asked NOT to apply if they have directed a feature film with a budget over $250K or directed or produced television. Selection is blind, based on script and pitch materials, weighting artistic vision over industry resume. TIMELINE: submissions open 30 May 2026, close 1 October 2026, notifications 15 November 2026.
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Anima, Brussels International Animation Film Festival · Brussels, Belgium. Open internationally; separate national (Belgian) short film competition. · Deadline: 02 Oct 2026 · Award: Free to submit until 2 October 2026. Winners in the main competition categories receive cash prizes plus an Anima trophy (the 2027 prize list is published in late January 2027). The festival is an Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying festival for eligible films.
Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival, is open for submissions for its 46th edition (19 to 28 February 2027). CATEGORIES: feature films, feature films for children, international professional short films, international student films, international short films for children, national (Belgian) short films, and short films in virtual reality. Films must be completed after June 2025. Submissions are free via the festival's online form until 2 October 2026. Winners in the main competitions receive cash prizes and an Anima trophy; the prize list for 2027 is published in late January. Anima is an Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying festival, and a small, approachable festival for animated and animation-adjacent experimental work. Notification to filmmakers on 4 December 2026.
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Making Space, in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in China · Guangzhou, China · Deadline: 03 Oct 2026 · Award: EUR 2,700 travel and artist fee subsidy (fixed per application; duos or collectives share it), plus accommodation in Guangzhou and shared studio space
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in China, in partnership with artist-run space Making Space in Guangzhou, invites Netherlands-based artists, makers, curators, writers, researchers and other cultural practitioners to a six-week residency in spring 2027. Making Space (est. 2017) focuses on art and social practice with an emphasis on long-term research, local knowledge and care-driven collaboration. The residency is process-oriented with no obligation to produce finished work; the resident takes part in at least one public exchange (talk, workshop, reading group, screening, performance or open studio). SUPPORT: EUR 2,700 travel and artist fee subsidy (fixed per application; duos or collectives share the amount), accommodation in Guangzhou, shared studio space, curatorial and research support with access to local networks, and logistical support for public programming (extra funding may be considered for public programmes). The resident arranges their own China visa; Making Space provides an invitation letter. LOOKING FOR: practitioners engaging with alternative education, ecological justice, migration and labour, social practice, intergenerational narratives, diaspora and transdisciplinary collaboration; English communication required. APPLY by email (makingspace2017@gmail.com) with a 200-word bio, CV, 2-page project proposal and portfolio (max 20 pages) in a single PDF, in English. Result expected late November 2026. Deadline: 3 October 2026, 23:59 CST / 17:59 CEST.
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Kaboom Animation Festival · Amsterdam and Utrecht, Netherlands. Open internationally. · Deadline: 05 Oct 2026 · Award: No entry fee for submitting to Kaboom's competitions. Competition awards are given across categories (amounts not published in the call); the festival is known for an open, experimental definition of animation.
Kaboom Animation Festival, the Netherlands' largest animation festival, is accepting films, games and VR projects for its 2027 edition in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Kaboom takes a famously broad view of what counts as animation: experimental and hybrid work screens alongside traditional animation, and combinations of animation and live-action are eligible as long as the larger part of the work is animated, which makes it a plausible home for AI-generated and expanded-media video work. In recent editions animated shorts could run up to 30 minutes excluding credits with up to 3 submissions per filmmaker; check the current regulations on the submission portal. Submissions are free of charge via the FilmChief portal. DEADLINE: 5 October 2026, 23:59 CET.
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Slamdance · Los Angeles, California, United States (festival 18-24 February 2027). Open to international entries. · Deadline: 06 Oct 2026 · Award: Festival exhibition at Slamdance in Los Angeles. DIG welcomes interactive documentaries, VR/AR, experiential installations, and genre-bending games. Entry fees: USD 60 regular, USD 70 late, USD 90 extended/final.
Slamdance's DIG (Digital, Interactive and Gaming) showcase presents work at the edges of cinema and interactivity: interactive documentaries, VR/AR, experiential installations, and experimental games, a strong fit for interactive AI and data-driven work. Film categories run on similar deadline tiers. DIG deadlines: regular 10 August 2026 (USD 60), late 14 September 2026 (USD 70), extended 6 October 2026 (USD 90).
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Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL) · Netherlands · Deadline: 07 Oct 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 10,000 total project budget including co-financing. Round budget EUR 167,000. Maximum 35 applications per period, ordered by random draw. No application fee.
Kick-start grant for architecture practitioners to develop early-stage projects. The grant period opens 6 May 2026 15:00 CEST and closes 13 May 2026 16:00 CEST. A maximum of 35 applications are considered per period; once the window closes all applications are ranked in random order via a draw system before processing begins. Round budget €167,000; maximum grant request €10,000.
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Frameline · Administered from San Francisco, United States. Open to filmmakers of all nationalities. · Deadline: 09 Oct 2026 · Award: Grants of up to USD 5,000, with a standard range of USD 1,000 to 5,000; the jury can recommend amounts above or below that range. No application fee.
Long-running post-production grant from Frameline, the San Francisco organisation behind the world's longest-running LGBTQ+ film festival, for films that represent and reflect LGBTQ+ life in all its complexity and richness. Grants run up to USD 5,000, typically USD 1,000 to 5,000, and the jury may recommend more or less than that range. WHAT IT COVERS: any post-production cost, explicitly including editing, special effects and graphics, music licensing, photo licensing, and, notably, closed captioning and audio description, so accessibility work is fundable rather than an afterthought. STAGE GATE, the thing that disqualifies most applicants: your project must be at least 90 percent complete with a rough cut available, and in or about to enter post-production. Work still in development or mid-production is not eligible. WHO AND WHAT: all formats, lengths, genres and nationalities are welcome, spanning documentary, narrative, experimental, animated and episodic work, so long as the film is about LGBTQ+ people and their communities. Directors must have creative and financial control of the project. NO APPLICATION FEE, which is worth flagging given how many completion funds charge one. TIMING: the submission window opens 31 August 2026 and closes 9 October 2026, with decisions in January 2027. The 2026 cycle's grantees have already been announced ahead of Frameline's 50th festival, so this is the next round.
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Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism (Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY) · Worldwide (freelancers and staff) · Deadline: 12 Oct 2026 · Award: Up to USD 15,000 per fellowship, plus editorial supervision and placement assistance. No application fee.
Fellowships supporting enterprise and investigative reporting with a business or economic angle, from the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY. Tech-platform economies, AI labour, data-broker investigations, digital-economy beats and similar tech-and-business stories fit naturally. ELIGIBILITY: working journalists with at least 5 years of professional experience; freelancers and staff are both eligible worldwide. CYCLES: Fall 2026 cycle deadline 12 October 2026; spring cycle expected around April 2027. No application fee.
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Gemeente Den Haag (Municipality of The Hague) · The Hague. Applicant must be active in Den Haag and the project must be publicly accessible there. City-restricted. · Deadline: 15 Oct 2026 · Award: EUR 10,000 to 30,000 per application. The municipal culture-budget contribution may not exceed 30 percent of the total project budget, so at least 70 percent co-financing is required. Annual ceiling for the strand is EUR 600,000. No application fee.
The larger of The Hague's two municipal project bands and the appropriate route for an organisation running a festival or substantial public programme in the city. Awards range from EUR 10,000 to 30,000 against an annual ceiling of EUR 600,000 for the whole strand. THE CO-FINANCING REQUIREMENT IS SEVERE and is the single most important planning constraint: the municipal culture budget may fund at most 30 percent of the total project budget, so an applicant seeking EUR 30,000 must already have roughly EUR 70,000 secured or plausibly projected elsewhere. Only legal entities may apply; individuals and informal collectives must use Category A instead (EUR 2,000 to 10,000, 70 percent coverage ceiling, next window 1 to 15 September 2026). Professional arts and culture organisations running public projects in music, theatre, dance, film, literature, visual arts or combinations are eligible. The next window opens 1 October and closes at 17:00 on 15 October 2026. TIMING: the decision term is 12 weeks after the window closes, so an October 2026 application is decided around early January 2027 and activity should be scheduled from 2027 onward. Applications are handled through the municipality's subsidy system, which migrated to Easyfunders in April 2026. This scheme is independent of Stroom Den Haag. The underlying regulation runs to 31 December 2028.
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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) · United States (applicants must be eligible US non-profits - museums, libraries, historical organisations, or accredited US colleges and universities) · Deadline: 15 Oct 2026 · Award: Planning grants up to USD 75,000; Implementation grants up to USD 1,000,000 (most awards substantially smaller). Two upcoming deadlines: 15 October 2026 and 9 December 2026.
NEH project grants supporting interpretive exhibitions, historic-place programming and discussion programmes that bring humanities scholarship to public audiences. Aimed at strengthening the humanities in public life through scholarship-informed public engagement (rather than primary research). Two upcoming application windows: 15 October 2026 and 9 December 2026. Two scales: Planning grants up to USD 75,000, and Implementation grants up to USD 1,000,000 (most awards substantially smaller than the cap). ELIGIBILITY: US-incorporated non-profits with appropriate IRS status, libraries, museums, historical organisations, or accredited US colleges and universities; individual scholars participate as project directors on behalf of an eligible institution. Aimed at projects that engage broad public audiences with humanities content (history, culture, philosophy, literature, etc.).
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands (applicants must be part of the professional visual art field in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom) · Deadline: 15 Oct 2026 · Award: Up to 70% of eligible expenses. Round budget: €229,000. Two structures: fixed grant of €2,480 per month for 1-6 month work periods, OR a flexible grant of up to 12 months with the amount determined by project plan and budget.
Mondriaan Fund grant for written and/or spoken-word publications about contemporary visual art: article series, long reads, podcasts, video essays, social-content series, and similar formats published across magazines, newspapers, online platforms, public media or social media. Aimed at strengthening reflection on, criticism of, and journalism around visual art practice in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Eligible applicants: existing or new platforms (online magazines, public media, podcast outlets, etc.) AND individuals working as curators, critics, social-content creators or journalists. New initiatives and collaborations may apply. Two cycles per year; the next deadline is 15 October 2026, 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time (an earlier 2 April 2026 round has already closed). Grant covers up to 70% of eligible expenses, with two pricing structures: fixed €2,480/month for short 1-6 month work periods, or a flexible grant of up to 12 months for larger project plans (amount determined by submitted plan and budget). Round budget €229,000. Good fit for science-communicator / critical-tech / art-and-AI long-form writing, podcast series, or video essay projects. Applications submitted via the Mondriaan Fund online portal after creating an account; documents cannot be uploaded after the deadline. Free to apply.
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Toronto Arts Council · Toronto, Canada · Deadline: 15 Oct 2026 · Award: Up to $15,000 (CAD) per artist for media-arts creation. No application fee.
Project funding from the Toronto Arts Council for professional media artists to create or complete independent film, video, audio, digital, VR/AR and multimedia works, with grants up to $15,000. ELIGIBILITY: Canadian citizens, permanent residents or Protected Persons who have lived in Toronto for at least one year, are professional media artists retaining full creative control, and are not students.
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IterCulture APS · Zafferana Etnea, Sicily, Italy. Open to Italian and international companies and artists. Semi-finals 15 and 16 July 2027, final 18 July 2027; rehearsals 13 and 14 July. · Deadline: 15 Oct 2026 · Award: Gross performance fee of EUR 500 to EUR 1,100 (VAT included) per selected short performance, scaled by the number of performers on stage, plus a possible travel contribution of up to EUR 250 subject to available funding, place of origin, cast size and absence of external touring grants. At least 10 performances are selected. Competition prizes: Best Performance EUR 1,200; Best Dramaturgy, Best Direction, Best Performer and the Scholars' and Critics' Award EUR 500 each; 'Valentina Nicosia' Fund EUR 500; 'Sandra Bressan' research fund EUR 1,800; Youth Jury Award EUR 300; plus non-cash awards (Audience Special Mention, Companies' Choice, Technical Crew). Panel members and Teatri Riflessi Network partners may also award special prizes in the form of artist residencies and touring opportunities. Application is free; selected companies pay a EUR 50 deposit that is fully refunded after the festival.
An open call for at least 10 short performances of maximum 15 minutes for the 12th edition of Teatri Riflessi in Zafferana Etnea, Sicily. THE FORMAT: the competition champions the short performance in its own right, not as a reduction of a longer work nor as a sketch for a full-evening adaptation; its strength is the artistic immediacy and urgency it carries. The framing connects ancient Greek theatre, conceived as an outdoor competition for a large audience, to the more provocative tendencies of happenings and performance art that lean on the beholder's desire to participate. STRUCTURE: semi-finalists perform on the evenings of Thursday 15 and Friday 16 July 2027; the Programmers' Panel and the Scholars' & Critics' Panel determine the finalists, who perform again in the final on Sunday 18 July. The panels bring together around 30 Italian and international artistic directors, curators, festival and theatre programmers, journalists, critics and performing arts scholars, many from the Teatri Riflessi Network and Anticorpi XL Network; the full list is published in June 2027. Past partner organisations include Antistatic Festival (Sofia), ATER Fondazione, BIG Festival, Cantieri Danza, Circuito CLAPS, COORPI, Dance ICONS (Washington DC), Danza Urbana, Derida Dance Centre, EN-KNAP and Spanski Borci (Ljubljana), Fabbrica Europa, Festival Ammutinamenti, Cluny Danse (France), Danza Canarias dentro y fuera (Tenerife), FIND Festival, Fondazione Armunia and Festival Inequilibrio, Fondazione Claudia Lombardi per il teatro (Lugano), Fondazione Sipario Toscana, Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo, Galway Dance (Ireland), Interplay Festival (Turin), L'Arboreto Teatro Dimora, La Piccionaia, Movimento Danza, New Dance For Asia International Festival (Daegu), Puglia Culture, Toplocentrala (Sofia) and Umbria Danza Festival. MONEY: each selected performance receives a gross fee of EUR 500 to EUR 1,100 depending on cast size, plus a possible travel contribution of up to EUR 250. Awards are Best Performance EUR 1,200 (from the combined weighted scores of both panels, the Jury of the Final, the Youth Jury and the Citizens' Jury), Best Dramaturgy EUR 500 and the Scholars' and Critics' Award EUR 500 (both from the Scholars' & Critics' Panel), Best Direction EUR 500 and Best Performer EUR 500 (both from the Programmers' Panel), the 'Valentina Nicosia' Fund of EUR 500 (joint decision of both panels), the 'Sandra Bressan' research fund of EUR 1,800 (awarded by the Citizens' Jury to reinvite a company to Sicily to work with the community), and the Youth Jury Award of EUR 300 to a semi-finalist, alongside the Audience Special Mention, the Companies' Choice Award and the Technical Crew Award. Fees, reimbursements and prizes are paid after the festival, provided all regulations and deadlines are met. FEES TO APPLY: none. Only selected companies pay a EUR 50 deposit on selection, fully refunded after the festival. RULES: performances should aim for 15 minutes, with total stage occupancy including set-up and dismantling capped at 20 minutes. Multiple entries are allowed but need a separate form each. No major changes are permitted after selection; minor adjustments, especially cast substitutions, must be communicated in advance and authorised by IterCulture APS. Works in languages other than Italian are welcome and are presented with Italian and English surtitles prepared by IterCulture APS. APPLICATION: a digital form linked in Article 5 of the open call regulations, with Annex A for dramaturgy (the complete script where one exists, or for dance, physical theatre and non-text work a short document on the dramaturgical research and choreographic structure) and a full video recording of the complete work; excerpts and teasers are not accepted, and for rehearsed readings, directorial notes on costumes, lighting and set design are mandatory. COMMITMENT: rehearsal attendance is compulsory, with the day assigned by the Competition Manager after selection; companies must arrive in Zafferana Etnea by their rehearsal day (rehearsals run 13 and 14 July 2027) and stay until the festival closes at 23:30 on Sunday 18 July. Rehearsals and public events run mainly in afternoons and evenings; the only compulsory morning commitment is the panel feedback session on Sunday 18 July. Online information sessions are held on Google Meet on Tuesday 22 September 2026, with the English session at 19:30 CEST. Deadline 15 October 2026 at 5pm CET.
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The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA), Austin, TX, with Oulu UNESCO City of Media Arts, Oulu Urban Culture and Frozen People · Fully online residency. This round is restricted to applicants based in Oulu, Finland and surrounding areas (a UNESCO Cities of Media Arts collaboration between Oulu and Austin). Pop-up showcases at the Frozen People Festival in Oulu and at MoHA in Austin. · Deadline: 15 Oct 2026 · Award: EUR 500 stipend, plus a user-friendly web builder (mmm.page), virtual studio visits and mentor conversations, promotion, a year-round showcase at welcometomyhomepage.net and a kiosk at the Austin Public Library's Innovate Lab, and in-person pop-up exhibitions at the Frozen People Festival in Oulu and at MoHA in Austin (Austin installation handled by the organisers; no resident travel funds to Austin). Free to apply.
Welcome to my Homepage is an international online residency hosted by The Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, Texas, offering artists a low-stakes opportunity to experiment, explore the web as a site for creative production, and reach new audiences with net art (artwork created on and experienced exclusively through the internet). Founded in 2014, it has hosted over 150 artists. THIS ROUND (Oulu Edition) is open only to applicants in the Oulu, Finland area, as a collaboration between the UNESCO Cities of Media Arts Oulu and Austin, and especially seeks proposals that consider digital culture from a northern perspective, bring an Arctic point of view, or take inspiration from the edges rather than the center. Selected residents (3 per cycle) receive a EUR 500 stipend, the mmm.page drag-and-drop web builder (no coding needed; hosting on your own domain is also fine), virtual studio visits, mentor conversations and promotion. Projects are shown online at welcometomyhomepage.net and in person at pop-up exhibitions alongside 3 Austin artists at the Frozen People Festival in Oulu and at MoHA in Austin. WHO IT IS FOR: all types of creative folks, no coding necessary and no need to be a net or digital artist (past residents include performers, poets, puppeteers, filmmakers, healthcare workers and musicians); the programme especially welcomes people who have not had an opportunity like this before, would benefit from a flexible online residency, or want time to experiment. Collectives can apply via a primary contact. NOT ELIGIBLE: applicants outside the Oulu area (this round only), under-18s, undergrad or grad students enrolled in an art, design or media programme during the residency, and full-time university faculty in such programmes. Jurors look for thoughtful, interesting, fun or challenging proposals achievable within the 3-week online residency; proposals for existing creative projects, promotional pages (portfolio or band sites) or projects relying heavily on visitor submissions are less successful, and the work should be experienceable fully from the browser. APPLICATION: statement of interest or residency proposal (max 300 words), artist statement (max 200 words), bio (max 200 words), and work samples (up to 4 links and/or a PDF of up to 10 images); brief and honest is preferred over fancy and academic. Selection is by a jury of Oulu Urban Culture staff, an Oulu artist, MoHA staff and a past resident, led by Residency Director Rachel Stuckey. Applicant info session online on 1 October 2026, 5pm EEST. Notification by late October 2026. Deadline 15 October 2026, 23:59 EEST. The next call open to applicants from anywhere is expected in early 2027.
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Societe des arts technologiques (SAT) · Societe des arts technologiques, 1201 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal, QC, Canada. Open to professional artists and collectives from anywhere in the world; no nationality restriction stated. · Deadline: 18 Oct 2026 · Award: CAD 10,000 grant per selected project, for individual artists and collectives alike. Also included: access to SAT workspaces during the residency periods, access to equipment and software resources subject to availability, mentoring and training activities (on site and remote), creative and technical support from the SAT teams, and documentation and archiving of the work. Travel, meals and accommodation beyond the grant are NOT covered. No application fee.
The Societe des arts technologiques (SAT) in Montreal runs a research-creation residency program in arts and technologies for artists and collectives working in the performing arts and/or media arts. The residency funds a research-creation stage of a project in technological arts rather than the finalisation of a finished work, so the call weighs the exploration process and the innovation in it above a polished outcome. Each selected project receives a CAD 10,000 grant, whether the applicant is an individual artist or a collective, plus access to SAT spaces and equipment, technical and creative support from the SAT teams, mentoring and training activities, and documentation and archiving. Access to spaces and equipment is assessed against the project's needs and granted subject to availability. Travel, meal and accommodation costs beyond the grant are not covered. Open to professional artists and artistic collectives worldwide, at any level of experience and from any primary discipline, provided the profile and project suit immersive technologies; collectives must submit a joint portfolio showing they can carry out the project independently, particularly the visual and sound creation inside a dome. Each application must include a form and supporting documents setting out the concept, the technical solutions considered, and what will be explored during the residency. One application per project and per person; incomplete applications are not evaluated; use permanent, downloadable links rather than WeTransfer or similar temporary services. Accommodations and alternative support documents (large print and so on) are available on request at residences@sat.qc.ca. Deadline 18 October 2026. Apply through the Google Form linked from the SAT open-call page.
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Design Trust · Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. Open to applicants based in the region or seeking support for design projects related to it, including international applicants. · Deadline: 20 Oct 2026 · Award: Seed Grant: HKD 50,000. Feature Grant: capped at HKD 300,000, awarded annually upon special consideration. Impact Grant: case-by-case, for former grantees. Full or partial funding on a case-by-case basis. Free to apply.
Design Trust offers grants to individual designers, curators, collectives, and non-profit organisations for projects and activities relevant to various design disciplines, supporting work relevant to the context and content of Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area (the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao and the nine Guangdong municipalities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing). It supports innovative, thought-provoking investigations across design disciplines from graphics, media, and wearables to architecture and the built environment, including exhibitions, research projects, and creative installations that advocate the positive role of design in the region. THREE GRANTS: (1) SEED GRANT (HKD 50,000) fosters experimentation, testing, and sharing, awarded to individuals kick-starting a meaningful project with social, educational, economical, or environmental impact; supports emerging designers, young scholars, and projects in the pipeline needing additional resources, including research and prototypes focused on Hong Kong and Greater Bay Area issues to be showcased at international venues, symposia, or biennales. (2) FEATURE GRANT (capped at HKD 300,000, awarded annually upon special consideration) fosters cross-disciplinary projects on the Greater Bay Area with wide-reaching audiences, often sited at an exhibition or biennale of international standing, supporting exchange between a Hong Kong/China-based collective and an internationally renowned cultural institution. (3) IMPACT GRANT supports public-facing, community-based projects led by former Design Trust grant recipients, fellows, and mentees with a proven track record; considered case-by-case (contact grantapplication@designtrust.hk). ELIGIBILITY: individuals, collectives, and certified non-profit organisations either based in the Greater Bay Area or seeking support for design projects related to the region. Individuals or collectives who have completed two Feature Grants or three Seed Grants should apply for the Impact Grant instead. APPLICATION: two cycles annually, deadlines 20 April and 20 October (late submissions roll to the next cycle); apply at least 3 to 6 months before the project's commencement. Design Trust may provide full or partial funding on a case-by-case basis.
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Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL) in collaboration with Videotage, Hong Kong · Residency takes place at Videotage in Hong Kong. Applicants must be established in the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius or Sint Maarten (Kingdom of the Netherlands) and registered in a business register within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. · Deadline: 21 Oct 2026 · Award: EUR 5,000 for a two-month residency or EUR 6,500 for a three-month residency, paid by the Creative Industries Fund NL to cover travel, insurance, living expenses, compensation for time invested, and material and transport costs. Accommodation, use of the studio space and facilitation by Videotage are covered directly by the Fund on top of this. No application fee.
The Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) runs this residency with Videotage, a Hong Kong-based non-profit media arts institution specialising in the promotion, presentation, creation and preservation of moving image and media art in all forms and languages. The Fund is recruiting one Netherlands-based designer, maker or observer working in digital culture to spend two or three months at Videotage's studio space in Hong Kong in 2027, conducting research, broadening their network, developing new work inspired by Hong Kong, and presenting their findings or completed works. The residency encourages crossovers and experimentation, giving the participant space to explore new methodologies, widen their creative practice and produce work that pushes the boundaries of digital culture, with a focus on social and urban dynamics. The 2027 edition takes the technological 'black box' phenomenon as its starting point and invites the resident to respond to that theme within the context of Videotage. ELIGIBILITY: you are an individual designer, maker or observer within the field of digital culture; you are established in the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius or Sint Maarten (Kingdom of the Netherlands); you are registered in the business register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) or another business register within the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and you have had a professional practice in the creative industry for at least four years. NOT open to duos, collectives or cooperative ventures, nor to designers and makers who receive a grant during the work period under the Talent Development Grant Scheme, the Open Call Self-taught Designer or the Open Call Emerging Design Practices ABCSSS. Note that accepting this open call means you cannot apply to those schemes and open calls in 2027. FUNDING: EUR 5,000 for two months or EUR 6,500 for three months, covering travel, insurance, living expenses, compensation for time invested and material and transport costs; accommodation, studio use and Videotage's facilitation are covered separately by the Fund. Submit your proposal to the Creative Industries Fund NL by 21 October 2026, 16:00 CEST.
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Simons Foundation · United States (trio must be regionally co-located) · Deadline: 21 Oct 2026 · Award: USD 30,000 per awarded trio
Open Interval is a Simons Foundation program that supports trios consisting of an artist, a scientist, and a representative from a 501(c)(3) arts organization to collaborate around a shared scientific theme. The current cycle centers on the theme of turbulence, a phenomenon at the edge of chaos and beauty. Awarded trios receive USD 30,000 to support a sustained period of thought partnership and exploration rather than the production of finished works or exhibitions. The program runs from April to December 2027 with a touchstone meeting in May 2027 and possible cohort convenings. Trio members must be regionally co-located anywhere in the United States so they can collaborate in person. The scientist should hold a Ph.D. and be conducting basic research, with priority given to fields such as astrophysics, neuroscience, quantum physics, biology, or mathematics. The application portal opens September 9, 2026, and all three trio members must submit for the application to be complete.
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CTM Festival · Berlin, Germany. On-site presentations within the CTM festival's Discourse programme, in English. · Deadline: 25 Oct 2026 · Award: No funding for travel or accommodation. Participants receive a CTM 2027 festival pass, a catered lunch on the day of presentations, and a group dinner. Entrance to the event is free; free to apply.
The Research Networking Day (RND) is an exchange platform for graduate or postgraduate students and independent artists conducting self-guided research traversing audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. The RND 2027 open call seeks innovative and critical submissions from all areas of study addressing the CTM 2027 festival theme 'Process...ing'. Nine selected candidates give short ten-minute presentations within different modules, linked by discussion rounds at the end of each module, offering an international platform to exchange with colleagues and researchers working on related ideas; research is also shared via audio/video after the festival on CTM's YouTube and SoundCloud channels. This edition takes place in collaboration with the Design Academy Eindhoven, Universitat der Kunste Berlin (UdK), and Leuphana University Luneburg. CONDITIONS: presentations take place on-site within the festival's Discourse programme, in English; applications are for individual (solo) presentations only (no duos or groups). As in previous years, no funding is available for travel and accommodation; participants receive a CTM 2027 festival pass, a catered lunch on the day, and a group dinner. Entrance to the event is free. KEY DATES: application deadline 25 October 2026 at 23:59 CET; programme announced mid to late November 2026; RND 2027 event Sunday 24 January 2027; CTM 2027 runs 22 to 31 January 2027.
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Stroom Den Haag · The Hague, Netherlands. Open to applicants from outside The Hague (apply with a CV) as long as the project takes place in The Hague or otherwise benefits art and artists in The Hague; Hague artists must be registered in the Stroom database (Mijn Stroom). · Deadline: 25 Oct 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 10,000 per project, up to EUR 20,000 per applicant per calendar year. Requests above EUR 5,000 require at least 30 percent co-financing of the total budget from third parties. Artist fees, production and communication costs are eligible; Stroom endorses the kunstenaarshonorarium.nl fee guideline. No application fee.
Stroom Den Haag's PRO Art Projects scheme contributes to the costs of realising a contemporary art project. WHO CAN APPLY: artists, curators, critics, publicists, partnerships and organisations. Applicants do not have to live in The Hague: Hague artists apply via their Stroom database registration (Mijn Stroom), while applicants from outside the city apply with a CV, provided the project takes place in The Hague or otherwise benefits art and artists in The Hague. ASSESSMENT: quality and distinctiveness of the project, whether it represents a step in a new direction, an experiment or a departure, its contribution to The Hague's art climate, and proportionality between budget and scope. APPLICATION: via the Stroom portal with a plan of max 2,500 words (artistic rationale, target audience, evaluation), an itemised budget using Stroom's model, and image documentation. NOT ELIGIBLE: applications connected to formal (art) education programmes or from current students (Bachelor, Master, postdoc, PhD). DEADLINE: the last 2026 round closes 25 October 2026 (rounds recur roughly every six weeks through the year). The grant is valid for up to two years after the decision, with 80 percent paid upfront.
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Stroom Den Haag · The Hague, Netherlands. Aimed at non-profit organisations, artist initiatives, collectives and independent curators/organisers; applicants from outside The Hague apply with a CV, provided the programme benefits The Hague's art climate. · Deadline: 25 Oct 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 10,000 per application, up to EUR 20,000 per applicant per calendar year. Requests above EUR 5,000 require at least 30 percent co-financing of the total budget from third parties. Compliance with the kunstenaarshonorarium.nl artist fee guideline is part of the assessment. No application fee.
Stroom Den Haag's PRO Art Program scheme contributes to the costs of an art programme: a series of activities (exhibitions, presentations, lectures, workshops, etc.) with an artistic, substantive, thematic and/or formal connection that take place within a certain period. It also covers exchange activities with other countries and programmes for guest studios and artist-in-residencies. WHO CAN APPLY: organisations that realise the programme on a non-profit basis, including artist initiatives, collectives and associations, plus independent curators and organisers. Applicants do not have to be based in The Hague: Hague artists apply via their Stroom registration (Mijn Stroom), outsiders apply with a CV, and all participants must provide CVs or current Stroom registration. ASSESSMENT: intrinsic quality and coherence, added value for The Hague's art climate, potential to catalyse broader activity, budget proportionality, audience engagement, and fair artist pay. APPLICATION: via the Stroom portal with an 80-word summary, a plan of max 2,500 words, a budget using Stroom's model, 10 to 20 images with a documentation list, and optionally up to 9 minutes of video. NOT ELIGIBLE: applications connected to formal (art) education programmes or from current students. DEADLINE: the last 2026 round closes 25 October 2026. The grant is valid for up to two years after the decision.
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Stroom Den Haag · The Hague, Netherlands. Open to Hague artists registered with Stroom and to curators, mediators, critics, publicists and others professionally active in the contemporary art world; applicants from outside The Hague apply with a CV. · Deadline: 25 Oct 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 5,000 per research project, up to EUR 20,000 per applicant per calendar year. Amounts exclude VAT and grants are only awarded on demonstrable financial need. No application fee.
Stroom Den Haag's PRO Research scheme contributes to the costs of a research project or artist-in-residency that feeds the development of new work and benefits The Hague's art climate. WHO CAN APPLY: The Hague artists registered in the Stroom database with an updated profile (Mijn Stroom), and also curators, mediators, critics, publicists and others professionally active in the contemporary art world; applicants from outside The Hague submit a CV for consideration. APPLICATION: via the Stroom portal using Stroom's budget model, with amounts excluding VAT. NOT ELIGIBLE: applicants enrolled in (art) educational programmes (Bachelor, Master, postdoc, PhD) or art academy students, and post-academic work periods such as the Rijksakademie, De Ateliers, the Jan van Eyck Academie and the EKWC fall outside the funding scheme system. DEADLINE: the last 2026 round closes 25 October 2026 (rounds recur roughly every six weeks). The grant is valid for up to two years after the decision, with 80 percent paid upfront.
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Netherlands Film Fund (Nederlands Filmfonds) · Netherlands. Applicant production companies must be legally registered in the Netherlands, including Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. · Deadline: 26 Oct 2026 · Award: Cash rebate of up to 35 percent of qualifying Dutch production costs, capped at EUR 3 million per year per applicant production company. The annual budget is EUR 20 million divided across four rounds at roughly EUR 5 million per round, with an extra EUR 3 million in the first round. No application fee.
The Netherlands Film Production Incentive is the Film Fund's automatic cash rebate for feature films, animated films and documentaries, returning up to 35 percent of qualifying Dutch production costs. It is designed to keep production spend in the Netherlands and is assessed on a points system rather than artistic panel review. WHO CAN APPLY: only Dutch producers representing independent production companies. The company must be legally registered in the Netherlands (including Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba) for at least two years, operate continuously in film or audiovisual production, and be represented by a producer who has produced at least one majority film with a budget of EUR 500,000 or more that had a Dutch cinema release. PROJECT THRESHOLDS: feature films and animated films need a minimum production budget of EUR 1 million and at least EUR 150,000 in qualifying costs; documentaries need a minimum budget of EUR 250,000 and at least EUR 100,000 in qualifying costs. FURTHER CONDITIONS: a guaranteed Dutch cinema release with a minimum 12-week window, at least 50 percent of the budget unconditionally promised in writing by third parties, at least two unaffiliated financiers, and a minimum score of 75 points on the automatic assessment system. Deadline 26 October 2026 at 17:00 CET.
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Netherlands Film Fund (Nederlands Filmfonds) · Netherlands. Only applicants from the Netherlands, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba may apply. · Deadline: 26 Oct 2026 · Award: Cash rebate of up to 35 percent of qualifying Dutch production costs, capped at EUR 3 million per project per year per applicant production company. The 2026 annual budget is EUR 9.5 million across three rounds, plus an additional EUR 0.4 million in the first round carried over from 2025. No application fee.
The High-End Series strand of the Netherlands Film Production Incentive extends the Film Fund's 35 percent cash rebate to high-end drama, documentary and animated television series, returning up to 35 percent of qualifying Dutch production costs. WHO CAN APPLY: independent production companies based for at least two years in the Netherlands, an EU member state, the EEA or Switzerland, producing audiovisual content on a continuing basis, and represented by a producer who has produced either a majority film with a minimum budget of EUR 500,000 and a Dutch cinema release, or a majority television series in the same category. Note that despite the broader basing rule, only applicants from the Netherlands, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba may actually apply. PROJECT THRESHOLDS: minimum production budget per broadcast minute varies by category, at EUR 4,000 for documentary and EUR 8,000 to EUR 12,000 for drama and animation. FURTHER CONDITIONS: at least 50 percent of the production budget secured in writing from third parties, a guaranteed television or VOD broadcast in the Netherlands (or in two or more countries for co-productions), and a minimum score of 75 points on the automatic assessment system. Deadline 26 October 2026 at 17:00 CET.
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Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie (Creative Industries Fund NL) · Netherlands (for international travel) · Deadline: 27 Oct 2026 · Award: Up to €1,500 within Europe (zone 1) / up to €2,500 outside Europe (zone 2)
Travel voucher for Dutch-based professionals in design, architecture and/or digital culture who have been invited by a foreign party to give a presentation, lecture or workshop. To apply you must have submitted an application to the Fund in the past five years that was positively assessed (previous International Vouchers do not count). The inviting foreign party must cover a proportionate share of the costs. Covers hourly fees, travel and accommodation directly related to the activity. IMPORTANT TIMING RULE: applications are accepted from 5 months to a minimum of 7 weeks before the activity begins, and processing takes about 6 weeks. This lead time can rule out activities that fall shortly after a round opens. Round 2 (4 May to 22 June 2026) has closed. Round 3 runs 8 September 2026 15:00 CEST to 27 October 2026 16:00 CEST, with a budget of EUR 33,000; given the 7-week rule it effectively serves activities starting from late October 2026 onwards. IMPORTANT PREREQUISITE: you must already have had an application to the Fund positively assessed within the past five years, and a previous voucher does not satisfy this, so this is not a viable first approach to the Fund. The window runs 8 September 2026, 15:00 CEST to 27 October 2026, but closes early once 20 complete applications are received. Maximum one voucher per applicant per calendar year.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival · Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (festival 17-21 March 2027). Open to international entries. · Deadline: 27 Oct 2026 · Award: Selection for GSFF including the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film. Entry fees: GBP 10 earlybird, GBP 14 regular, GBP 18 late (slightly higher via FilmFreeway).
Scotland's leading short film festival marks its 20th edition in March 2027. International entries compete for the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film; films must be completed after 30 September 2025 and run 40 minutes or less. Deadlines: earlybird 4 August 2026 (GBP 10), regular 22 September 2026 (GBP 14), late 27 October 2026 (GBP 18).
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musikfonds e.V. · Germany. Projects taking place abroad are excluded. · Deadline: 30 Oct 2026 · Award: FLAG, UNVERIFIED: per-project amounts are not published on the programme overview page and must be confirmed via the application portal at musikfonds-antrag.de. No application fee indicated.
Outer Ear is Musikfonds' dedicated special programme for participatory projects in experimental music, and the strand that most cleanly matches an experimental and sound-art public-programme brief rather than concert-series funding. It emphasises the creative process and audience participation over finished works, explicitly targeting audiences for experimental music, which makes it suitable for workshop-plus-presentation formats, listening programmes and process-led sound art events. Application windows run twice yearly: 1 to 30 April 2026 (closed) and 1 to 30 October 2026, the next live deadline. THE FIRST OUTER EAR ROUND WAS HIGHLY COMPETITIVE, with 14 projects approved at an 8.6 percent success rate, so treat it as a long shot. As with all Musikfonds strands, the applicant must be based in Germany, projects abroad are ineligible, and double-funding with BKM or with projects run by permanently institutionally supported bodies is excluded. Note that Musikfonds' Small and Large Project Funding strands are listed separately in the Grant Desk; Outer Ear is a distinct programme with its own window.
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Stichting NORMA (collecting society for performing artists) · Netherlands-based arts-sector activity. No city or region restriction stated. · Deadline: 30 Oct 2026 · Award: Maximum EUR 10,000 per project. Total project budget may not exceed EUR 150,000 and the applicant organisation's annual budget may not exceed EUR 500,000. At least 25 percent of the project budget must come from audience or box-office revenue. Performer fees must meet the 2026 wage norms of EUR 139 per rehearsal and EUR 340 per performance. No application fee.
The NORMA Fonds redistributes copyright remuneration collected by Stichting NORMA into cultural, social and professional projects involving performing artists, and is one of the few Dutch schemes with four intakes a year and a genuinely short cycle. Both arts-sector organisations and individual arts professionals may apply, though the applicant needs a bank account and legal footing and cannot be a BIS-funded institution. The project must centre on performing artists in the copyright sense, meaning people who perform a copyright-protected work: musicians, dancers, actors, voice actors. This fits live experimental music, sound performance and performative media-art work, but not object-based exhibitions or non-performative installation programmes. The maximum grant is EUR 10,000, the total project budget must stay under EUR 150,000, the applicant's annual budget under EUR 500,000, and at least a quarter of the project budget must be earned from audience income, so this is a top-up rather than a primary funding source. Budgets must honour NORMA's 2026 performer wage norms. Applications are submitted online during a one-month window each quarter; the next round runs 1 to 30 October 2026, closing at 23:59. TIMING RULE: decisions arrive no later than eight weeks after the deadline, and the premiere date must fall at least eight weeks after the application deadline. Organisations that already received a NORMA Fonds grant in 2024 or 2025 are excluded, and supporting staff may not exceed 2 FTE.
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Foresight Institute · Remote (global; hubs in San Francisco and Berlin) · Deadline: 31 Oct 2026 · Award: Typically $30,000 to $100,000 per grant, with smaller amounts for the Human Empowerment and AI Insurance & Open Governance focus areas and higher amounts for the rest (larger possible for the right project), plus private local compute and workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes. No application fee.
Umbrella request for proposals for ambitious AI-first projects that make the transition to capable AI go well and use it to unlock science. Three connected layers, each with its own detailed call: I. Local Compute (compute that individuals or communities physically own and control); II. Coordination and Accountability (supercollaboration and decentralized alignment, human empowerment, AI insurance and open governance); III. AI-First Science: Bio, Neuro, Nano (automated nanotechnology, whole-brain emulation, replacement, enhancement, biostasis). AI-first means AI is the primary engine of progress, not tapped onto an existing research program; strong proposals identify narrow bottlenecks and propose something that can be built, tested or measured. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and scientific network. ELIGIBILITY: individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding); applicants who want to be active in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Grants typically $30,000 to $100,000, smaller for the Human Empowerment and AI Insurance & Open Governance areas and higher for the rest. Review takes about three months after the deadline. Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
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MATS (ML Alignment and Theory Scholars) · In-person at MATS offices in Berkeley, London, or Washington DC; visa support provided where required. For experienced researchers with at least one substantial piece of research-caliber work. · Deadline: 31 Oct 2026 · Award: USD 155,000 to 285,000 per year gross (set by location, seniority, and experience), plus medical/dental/vision/life insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, conference funding, catered meals, and up to USD 25,000 relocation support. No application fee.
The MATS Residency, announced in August 2026 as a new track alongside the seasonal MATS fellowship, funds 6 to 24 months of high-independence AI safety research for experienced researchers, whether already in AI safety or moving in from adjacent fields. COMPENSATION: USD 155,000 to 285,000 per year gross depending on location, seniority and experience, plus insurance, retirement plan, PTO (17 days US / 20 days UK), conference funding, catered meals, and up to USD 25,000 in relocation support. ELIGIBILITY: at least one substantial piece of research-caliber work; credentials are not required. Full-time (part-time case by case for academics on sabbatical), in person at MATS offices in Berkeley, London, or Washington DC, with visa support where required. TIMELINE: the Winter 2027 intake window runs 25 August to 31 October 2026 (AoE), with decisions by end of November and interviews plus a paid work test in the first week of December; three intake windows per year.
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Zindi with Humane Intelligence, Radiant Earth, and the Heising-Simons Foundation · Online, open to all worldwide; teams of up to 4. · Deadline: 31 Oct 2026 · Award: USD 10,000 total in prizes: 1st USD 4,500, 2nd USD 2,500, 3rd USD 1,500, Best Bias Discovery USD 1,000, Best Documentation USD 500, plus 10,000 Zindi points. Free to enter.
A bias bounty from Zindi, Humane Intelligence, Radiant Earth, and the Heising-Simons Foundation: measure coverage gaps in Overture Maps across US Census tracts by comparing it against Census TIGER/Line Roads, Microsoft US Building Footprints, USGS National Map critical facilities, and Census County Business Patterns. Submissions are automatically evaluated with a Bias Score assessing equity metrics across demographic and climate-vulnerability strata, surfacing whose neighbourhoods open map data underserves. PRIZES: 1st USD 4,500, 2nd USD 2,500, 3rd USD 1,500, Best Bias Discovery USD 1,000, Best Documentation USD 500 (USD 10,000 total), plus 10,000 Zindi points. ELIGIBILITY: open to all, teams of up to 4. HOW TO ENTER: create a Zindi account, download the sample submission files, compute coverage-gap scores per tract GEOID, and upload a CSV; 10 submissions per day, 300 total. Free to enter. DEADLINE: 31 October 2026.
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First Flights Media Limited, with Kodak and Periscope · UK-based fund, open to filmmakers worldwide · Deadline: 31 Oct 2026 · Award: Up to GBP 7,000 / USD 10,000 cash toward production; plus two Kodak awards of 5 x 400ft rolls of 16mm stock with full processing, and one USD 10,000 Periscope post-production package
First Flights funds emerging filmmakers worldwide making live action and documentary shorts in any scripted genre (scripts up to 30 pages). The autumn 2026 round awards up to GBP 7,000 / USD 10,000 in cash toward production costs, plus two Kodak awards of five 400ft rolls of 16mm film stock with complete processing, and one USD 10,000 post-production package from Periscope. Selected filmmakers also receive festival submission assistance and distribution opportunities through partner organizations. APPLY with project details, logline, synopsis, director's vision statement, completed script, director biography, budget and lookbook (sizzle reel optional); independent judges score originality, creativity, plot, pacing, characters, entertainment and message, with interviews for long-listed candidates. Production must begin within six months of the deadline. ENTRY FEE: tiered, GBP 30 until 30 September or GBP 40 until the final 31 October 2026 deadline.
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Foresight Institute · Remote (global; hubs in San Francisco and Berlin) · Deadline: 31 Oct 2026 · Award: Typically $30,000 to $100,000 per grant (larger possible for the right project), plus private local compute and workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes. No application fee.
Track I of Foresight Institute's AI for Science & Safety Nodes RFP funds building and scaling local compute setups that individuals or communities physically own and control. With five companies holding 71 percent of the world's AI compute, researchers relying on APIs and rented compute face data exposure, steep price increases and the risk of losing access altogether; open models are ready for serious science and safety work, but the ecosystem lacks sovereign and secure compute infrastructure. LOOKING FOR: local compute clusters in different sizes and configurations that are easy to set up and run across varied connectivity and electricity environments; blueprints for easy yet secure cluster management; models for bringing down cost, like selling idle compute or connecting to community clusters; ideally a business case for building, selling and distributing such clusters at scale. EXAMPLE DELIVERABLES: a prototype AI cluster an average person can deploy at home, software that runs a node without expert knowledge, economic models showing how the hardware pays for itself, a pilot deployment for individuals or communities. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and network; in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide may apply (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding). Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
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Foresight Institute · Remote (global; hubs in San Francisco and Berlin) · Deadline: 31 Oct 2026 · Award: Typically $30,000 to $100,000 per grant, with smaller amounts for the Human Empowerment and AI Insurance & Open Governance focus areas; plus private local compute and workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes. No application fee.
Track II of Foresight Institute's AI for Science & Safety Nodes RFP funds ways for increasingly capable AI systems to coordinate with each other, the people using them, and the wider world, without handing power to a single model, lab or government. THREE FOCUS AREAS: (1) Supercollaboration and decentralized alignment: coordination and credit-assignment protocols, tooling for massive human-AI collectives, incentive designs robust to gaming, mutual monitoring and cross-checking among agents, scalable verification, and open coordination protocols built on boundaries as Schelling points for multi-agent coordination. (2) Human Empowerment: evidence, decision rules and working tools for when human control genuinely empowers people versus when AI delegation is preferable, including a 'when to defer control' framework and mechanisms to detect and fix hollow oversight. (3) AI Insurance and Open Governance: building a middle layer between lab self-governance and government regulation, such as ways for insurers to judge and price frontier-lab risk, independent incident reporting and assessment that does not leak lab secrets, and mechanisms like developer mutuals, catastrophe bonds or liability for near-misses. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and network; in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide may apply (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding). Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
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Foresight Institute · Remote (global; hubs in San Francisco and Berlin) · Deadline: 31 Oct 2026 · Award: Typically $30,000 to $100,000 per grant, with higher amounts for this track than the Human Empowerment and AI Insurance areas (larger possible for the right project); plus private local compute and workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes. No application fee.
Track III of Foresight Institute's AI for Science & Safety Nodes RFP funds AI-first science in bio, neuro and nano: work that asks what important science is stuck, what it is actually stuck on, and whether we can build the thing that removes that constraint. THREE FOCUS AREAS: (1) Automated nanotechnology: AI methods for nanoscale design, simulation and assembly, closed-loop fabrication and characterization tools, credible application pathways from toy problems to medicine, environment and bottom-up production, and defensive applications and safety frameworks. (2) Whole-brain emulation: cheaper and faster brain mapping and preservation, bringing down the cost of connectomics through better imaging or cheaper proofreading, lo-fi emulation pathways that predict organism behavior from behavioral and neural data, and shorter experimental feedback loops in neurobiology. (3) Replacement, Enhancement, Biostasis: longevity work including tissue engineering, organ synthesis, 3D bioprinting and progressive replacement strategies; reversible biostasis for organs and full humans with improved preservation and revival protocols and organ banking; and datasets for independently testing genetic predictors, gene editing and better measures of aging. Selected projects receive grant funding, private local compute, workspace at the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes, travel-paid field-building events and access to Foresight's advisors and network; in-person contributors at the Nodes are strongly prioritised. Individuals, teams, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations worldwide may apply (for-profits must justify their need for grant funding). Deadline 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
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Cultuurloket DigitALL · Netherlands and the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom. No city or region restriction. · Deadline: 01 Nov 2026 · Award: Up to EUR 30,000. Covers technical modification, system integration, production and deployment costs. Hardware purchase alone is ineligible unless clearly essential to the public experience. No stated co-financing percentage. No application fee.
A one-off 2026 call letting Dutch cultural institutions reuse and adapt digital technology that other institutions have already built and published in the open DigitALL Toolkit, for example translation software shared between theatres or a streaming platform adapted for a new venue. Grants run up to EUR 30,000 and cover technical modification, integration, production and deployment costs. Eligible applicants are museums, theatres, music venues, festivals, film theatres and professional performing arts producers. Applications are submitted online and assessed in order of receipt rather than comparatively, with a decision within ten weeks. The deadline was extended from 31 May 2026 to 1 November 2026 after high demand. IMPORTANT RESTRICTION: this route cannot be used to further develop your own pilot internally; it exists specifically to spread another institution's working technology across the sector. For developing something new, use the DigitALL pilot contribution instead.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Washington DC, USA. Fellows are placed in US federal executive, legislative and judicial branch offices and must reside in the DC area. · Deadline: 01 Nov 2026 · Award: Stipend depending on experience and placement, roughly USD 85,000 to 140,000; the dedicated AI legislative branch cohort is paid at GS-12 Step 10 on the DC locality scale. Includes health insurance, a travel and professional development allowance, and relocation support for some placements. No application fee.
The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships place scientists and engineers inside US federal agencies, congressional offices and the judicial branch for a year of hands-on policymaking, contributing technical knowledge and analytical skills to the federal policy process. AI, data and computing policy placements are among the largest tracks, and AAAS runs a dedicated AI legislative branch cohort that places AI experts in congressional offices at GS-12 Step 10 on the DC locality scale. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens holding a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in any science or engineering field, or a master's degree in engineering plus three years of post-degree professional experience; some tracks accept a bachelor's plus five years. Relevant expertise includes AI, machine learning, computer science, robotics and data science. Fellows must reside in DC, Maryland or northern Virginia during the fellowship year. TIMELINE: the application portal opens 1 August 2026 and closes 1 November 2026 at 11:59pm ET, with eligibility notification in late November, interview notification January to February 2027, semi-finalist interviews in March, placement offers by early May, and the fellowship year running 1 September 2027 to 31 August 2028. Apply through fellowshipapp.aaas.org.
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American-Scandinavian Foundation · Nordic region (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Sapmi). For American graduate students, academic professionals, and creative artists; project must take place in the Nordic countries. · Deadline: 01 Nov 2026 · Award: Long-term fellowships of up to USD 23,000 for 4 to 12 months; short-term grants of up to USD 5,000 for 1 to 3 months. In 2026, 31 American Fellows received over USD 277,390 in total funding. Awards are given in all fields, including creative arts projects.
The American-Scandinavian Foundation's award program for study and research abroad is its longest-standing commitment to educational exchange: over the past 100 years, more than 4,000 fellowships and grants have gone to Americans working in the Nordic region and Scandinavians in the US engaged in study, research, or creative arts projects. Fellowships for Americans in the Nordic Countries support projects in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Sapmi. AMOUNTS: long-term fellowships of up to USD 23,000 for 4 to 12 months, and short-term grants of up to USD 5,000 for 1 to 3 months; awards are given in all fields, with graduate students (preferably dissertation-related), academic professionals, and creative artists eligible. In 2026, 31 American Fellows were granted over USD 277,390 in total. REPORTING: fellows abroad more than six months submit an interim report mid-project, and all fellows submit a final narrative report within 60 days of the fellowship period's end. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026 for the 2027-28 cycle. See ASF's Program Guidelines for full requirements and apply via the ASF application portal.
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MIT Museum · Cambridge, Massachusetts, US (content shown on-site; remote creation possible) · Deadline: 01 Nov 2026 · Award: Flat honorarium of USD 2,500 to 5,000 per selected proposal, at the Museum's discretion
The MIT Museum seeks proposals for compelling digital content exploring humanity's relationship with the BRAIN, the museum's thematic focus from April to September 2027 bringing together art, science, technology and design on cognition, neurotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, mental health and the boundaries of ability. Selected proposals run as ambient content on the two-story digital screen (3840x3024, 80:63 aspect ratio, 20'3" x 16'2") in the museum's central Exchange amphitheater. The museum wants immersive, non-linear, experimental, non-didactic work, such as artful visualizations of data or scientific phenomena; interactivity (touchscreens, QR codes) is out of scope and content-critical audio is discouraged. Content must run on the museum's existing hardware (Windows PC with RTX 3090, NEC LED wall with Analog Way 4K system). WHO CAN APPLY: artists, scientists, engineers, designers and other creative practitioners, from MIT or the broader community. SUPPORT: flat honorarium of USD 2,500-5,000 per selected proposal; no additional development funding. Applications reviewed from 2 November, accepted list finalized January 2027. Deadline: 1 November 2026.
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ARC Prize Foundation · Online (Kaggle), worldwide · Deadline: 02 Nov 2026 · Award: USD 2,000,000 total prize pool across three tracks (ARC-AGI-2, ARC-AGI-3 agents, and a paper prize); milestone prizes include USD 25,000 / 10,000 / 2,500
The ARC Prize Foundation runs its 2026 competition for progress toward artificial general intelligence, with a USD 2,000,000 total prize pool across three tracks: the main Kaggle competition on the ARC-AGI-2 static reasoning benchmark, a track on ARC-AGI-3 interactive agent reasoning (second milestone 30 September 2026), and a paper prize for research that advances understanding of ARC-AGI performance. Milestone prizes run USD 25,000 / 10,000 / 2,500. Open to individuals and teams worldwide, entirely online via Kaggle. Winning entries must be open-sourced under permissive licenses to collect prizes. Main submission deadline 2 November 2026, paper track 8 November 2026; results announced 4 December 2026.
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Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts) · Antwerp, Belgium. Salaried research position; applicant must be legally employable in Belgium. · Deadline: 03 Nov 2026 · Award: Two-year research projects: 55% employment for the research assignment over 24 months (contractual project staff member) plus EUR 2,000 in operating funds (EUR 1,000 per project year). No application fee.
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts) invites applications for two-year artistic research projects starting 20 September 2027. Two-year research projects provide 55% employment for the research assignment over 24 months (as a contractual project staff member) plus EUR 2,000 in operating funds (EUR 1,000 per project year). Proposals are developed in collaboration with the Academy's research groups and must align with, endorse, and further develop the mission and vision of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. PRECONDITIONS: the proposal must be in line with the Academy's mission/vision; the applicant must be legally employable by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp/AP Hogeschool on a contractual basis; and, at the time of application, the applicant must hold a Master's degree in Visual Arts awarded by a Belgian higher education institution (a non-Belgian degree is possible only if validated or recognised through the NARIC procedure, with proof included or a declared willingness to undergo it). PROCEDURE (two steps): STEP 1, apply via the Expression of Interest form sent to research_royalacademyantwerp@ap.be before 3 November 2026, 12:00 noon (applicants informed no later than end November 2026 whether they may develop a full dossier); STEP 2, submit the full dossier via the two-year project application form before 1 February 2027, 12:00 noon. Evaluation by an independent reading committee aims to conclude in May 2027. Contact: research_royalacademyantwerp@ap.be.
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American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), funded by the Mellon Foundation · Grant funds must be administered by a US institution of higher education. No citizenship or residency restriction is stated for the principal investigator. · Deadline: 03 Nov 2026 · Award: Seed Grants USD 10,000 to 25,000 for start-up and prototyping work; Development Grants USD 50,000 to 100,000 for projects past proof of concept. Institutional indirect costs are not covered. No application fee.
ACLS Digital Justice Grants fund digital projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of colour and other historically marginalised communities, including Black, Latinx, Indigenous, disabled and LGBTQ+ communities. The programme's stated aims are to diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues, with an explicit interest in scholars working with under-utilised or understudied source materials and those at institutions with less infrastructure for digital work. TWO TRACKS, one deadline: SEED GRANTS of USD 10,000 to 25,000 for projects in the start-up or prototyping phase, covering planning, prototyping and methodology testing; and DEVELOPMENT GRANTS of USD 50,000 to 100,000 for projects that have moved past proof of concept and can show preliminary work and evidence of engagement. ELIGIBILITY: at least one principal investigator must be a scholar in the humanities or interpretive social sciences, and awarded funds must be administered by a US institution of higher education. WHAT IS NOT FUNDED: creative works such as novels or films, textbooks, straightforward translations, purely pedagogical projects, and institutional indirect costs. Note that outputs are expected to be made as widely available as intellectual property allows, ideally under the most liberal open-source or Creative Commons licence. TIMING: applications go through the ACLS online fellowship and grant administration system (ofa.acls.org) by 3 November 2026 at 17:00 ET; grant terms begin between 1 July and 31 December 2027 and run 12 to 18 months. The programme is funded by the Mellon Foundation.
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European Media Art Platform (EMAP / EMARE) · Two-month production residency at one of 15 host institutions across Austria, France, Slovakia, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Germany and Poland · Deadline: 06 Nov 2026 · Award: EUR 4,000 grant for the applying artist (including subsistence); EUR 2,000 for a collaborating artist (EUR 6,000 total for a duo); EUR 4,000 project budget; accommodation provided by the host; travel covered per EU ceilings; access to technical facilities and media labs. No application fee.
The European Media Art Platform (EMAP/EMARE) is a network of leading European media-art organisations offering fully funded two-month production residencies for artists working with digital media, including media art, bio art and robotic art. Each residency provides a EUR 4,000 grant to the applying artist (including subsistence), a EUR 4,000 project budget, host-provided accommodation, travel covered according to EU ceilings, and access to technical facilities and media labs; a collaborating artist receives an additional EUR 2,000 (EUR 6,000 total for a duo). Residencies take place at one of 15 host institutions across Austria, France, Slovakia, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Germany and Poland. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be EU residents or taxpayers in an EU member state, or residents/taxpayers of one of the eligible non-EU countries (Netherlands-based artists qualify). Undergraduate and Master's students are not eligible; PhD candidates and emerging artists of any age and academic background may apply. IMPORTANT: applicants must apply as a duo or collective, or propose a collaborative project, rather than as a purely solo applicant. The 2027 open call runs from 3 September 2026 to 6 November 2026 at 14:00 CET. Apply online at call.emare.eu. No application fee.
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Open City Documentary Festival / UCL · London, UK · Deadline: 27 Nov 2026 · Award: Screening fees for all selected works: GBP 275 for works over 60 min, GBP 140 for works over 40 min, GBP 70 for works under 40 min, GBP 100 for cross-platform projects (all incl. VAT)
The 17th Open City Documentary Festival takes place at venues across London in April 2027, presenting international contemporary and retrospective non-fiction film, audio and cross-media work alongside filmmaker Q&As, panels, talks and workshops. The festival nurtures experimentation within the expanded field of non-fiction cinema, from artists' moving image to documentary, the essay film, audio and cross-media works; recent artists screened include Sky Hopinka, Onyeka Igwe, Luke Fowler, Ana Vaz, Jessica Sarah Rinland and Morgan Quaintance. ELIGIBILITY: non-fiction film and video, cross-platform projects and audio works completed after 1 January 2026; no strict premiere requirement, but works not yet publicly screened in London are prioritized. All selected filmmakers receive screening fees: GBP 275 for works over 60 minutes, GBP 140 for works over 40 minutes, GBP 70 for works under 40 minutes, GBP 100 for cross-platform projects (all incl. VAT). Submissions via FilmFreeway with tiered entry fees (lower before the early deadline). EARLY DEADLINE: 25 September 2026. FINAL DEADLINE: 27 November 2026; all entrants notified by 22 February 2027.
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Prototype Fund (Open Knowledge Foundation Germany) · Germany / EU (lead must be based in Germany; funded members must reside in the EU) · Deadline: 30 Nov 2026 · Award: Up to EUR 95,000 over 6 months, or up to EUR 158,000 over 10 months, plus coaching. No application fee.
Prototype Fund supports the development of socially relevant open-source software, offering low-threshold funding and coaching to individual developers and small teams. ELIGIBILITY: individual developers or teams of up to four; funded members must reside in the EU and the lead entity must be based in Germany. Application window 1 October to 30 November 2026. Apply via the Prototype Fund application page.
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Async Museum · Online (independent digital space); open to artists worldwide. · Deadline: 01 Dec 2026 · Award: Exhibition and visibility opportunity, NOT a paid grant: selected web-based artworks are presented in Async Museum's independent online space. No artist fee is stated.
Async Museum is an independent digital space dedicated to web art with a distinctive point of view, existing to discover artists who use the web as their primary medium and to recognise their work as a new aesthetic. Its core philosophy is that the web browser is a twenty-first century canvas. Async Museum is officially seeking submissions of web-based artworks, welcoming both established practitioners and emerging voices who are pushing the boundaries of what the next generation of art can be. NOTE: this is an exhibition opportunity for web-based art rather than a paid grant; no artist fee is stated. To share your practice and submit your work, visit https://asyncmuseum.com/submit. Deadline: 1 December 2026.
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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in partnership with The Black List · United States (verify international eligibility on Black List program page) · Deadline: 04 Dec 2026 · Award: $20,000 to each of three writers ($60,000 total) to support revision of a feature screenplay or pilot.
Annual screenwriting fellowship from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) administered through The Black List, awarding $20,000 each to three writers to revise a feature screenplay or pilot that engages with climate change in a compelling way. Submission and selection happen on The Black List platform; applicants should review program eligibility and any associated hosting/submission fees on blcklst.com before applying. Strong fit for narrative writers using fiction to dramatise climate, ecology, energy, or environmental-justice themes (rather than documentary).
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CFA Institute (in partnership with IMGN) · United States (50 states + DC; applicants must be 18+) · Deadline: 31 Dec 2026 · Award: $4,500 to one filmmaker. If the project is already completed before funds are disbursed, the $4,500 is paid as a reimbursement upon submission of a final cut.
One-off film grant awarding a single filmmaker $4,500 to support an independent narrative project in 2026. Application is free to submit. Centerpiece of the application is a production book built on the IMGN platform: script breakdown, schedule, coverage, and pre-visualization for the project (tutorials are provided inside the application). Eligibility: US-based filmmakers in the 50 states plus DC, aged 18 and older. If the project is already completed before funds are disbursed, the grant is paid as a reimbursement upon submission of a final cut of the film. Winner announced and funds disbursed by end of January 2027.
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Omidyar Network · Open to journalists and media organizations worldwide. · Deadline: 31 Dec 2026 · Award: $5,000-$25,000 per project. Rolling deadline through December 31, 2026. No application fee.
The Omidyar Network Tech Journalism Fund offers rolling grants of $5,000-$25,000 for technology journalism projects. Relevant for journalists and media organizations investigating AI, tech policy, and AI's impacts on culture, society, and creative industries. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through December 31, 2026 — one of the few currently open opportunities with a confirmed near-term deadline. Apply via the application form on omidyar.com.
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Sheer Spite Press · Montreal, Canada (digital distribution, open worldwide) · Deadline: 31 Dec 2026 · Award: Revenue share, not a grant: creators set their own PDF pricing and keep up to 80 percent of each sale, paid quarterly (modest sums expected); non-exclusive, you can keep selling elsewhere
Sheer Spite Press, a Montreal-based independent press running since 2024, is open for submissions of zines to be distributed digitally as PDFs through its new digital distro (no print at this time). PRIORITIZING work that is long, text-centric, passionate, personal, anti-authoritarian and accessible (probably not poetry), on topics like community care, friendship, history, food, sex and kink, memoir, DIY and adventures. TERMS: the press sells your PDFs, you choose your own pricing and keep up to 80 percent of sales, paid quarterly (very modest sums expected); distribution is non-exclusive, so you can keep selling your zines anywhere else. Note this is a revenue-share distribution arrangement, not a grant or stipend. Submit via the CryptPad form linked from the call; questions to lee@sheerspite.ca. No submission fee. Open until 31 December 2026.
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Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY Graduate Center · New York City, USA (in residence at the CUNY Graduate Center, September to May) · Deadline: 04 Jan 2027 · Award: $72,000 stipend plus writing space, full research facilities and research assistance
Four resident biography fellowships plus the Levy/Sloan Fellowship, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, for a biography of a figure in science or technology; separate Sherwin fellowship for nuclear-age history. Open to writers of all nationalities, with explicit preference for first-time biographers who have not yet held a biography fellowship, though mid-career and senior writers are welcome; independent writers eligible. Fellows join monthly seminars and the center's public events. Apply with CV, career narrative, project description, writing sample and two references (agents, editors and publishers are discouraged as referees). No application fee.
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Institute for Law & AI (LawAI) · Washington, DC, USA (relocation expected; USD 10,000 relocation/housing stipend for DC-based fellows). Requires valid US work authorization; visa sponsorship available but not guaranteed. · Deadline: 29 Jan 2027 · Award: USD 2,000 per week subsidy, plus a USD 10,000 relocation/housing stipend for DC-based fellows and covered travel, accommodation and meals for the Convening Week; higher subsidies possible for exceptional candidates. No application fee.
The Institute for Law & AI's US Summer Fellowship is a paid research fellowship at the leading edge of US AI law and policy for law students, professionals, and academics, including the Summer Institute on Law and AI in Washington DC and mentorship from LawAI research staff. FUNDING: USD 2,000 per week, a USD 10,000 relocation/housing stipend for DC-based fellows, covered flights, accommodation and meals for the Convening Week, and potentially higher subsidies for exceptional candidates. ELIGIBILITY: a strong grasp of US legal principles applicable to AI regulation via formal US legal study (incoming 1L and up) or comparable professional experience; full-time commitment 14 June to 20 August 2027; valid US work authorization required (visa sponsorship possible but not guaranteed). The application takes about 20 minutes. DEADLINE: 29 January 2027, 11:59PM ET.
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New Media Film Festival · Los Angeles, California, United States (2 June 2027 online, 3 June 2027 in LA). Open worldwide, all formats. · Deadline: 06 Apr 2027 · Award: Screening and awards; grand prize includes industry meetings (HBO, Marvel), LA studio time, production services, and USD 1,000 in tools. Entry fees: USD 80 (by 6 December 2026), USD 85 (by 6 February 2027), USD 95 final.
The New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles champions stories told with new technology and was among the first festivals to screen AI-generated content; it has a dedicated AR / MR / AI / TECH category. Open worldwide in all formats. Deadlines: 6 December 2026 (USD 80), 6 February 2027 (USD 85), final 6 April 2027 (USD 95).
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Blackbird Foundation · Australia and/or New Zealand; individuals, groups or organisations established in AU/NZ, with projects taking place in AU/NZ. · Deadline: 30 Jun 2027 · Award: AUD 5,000 and AUD 10,000 grants. No application fee.
Believers funds the people, projects and programs creating the conditions for young people's creativity to flourish at scale. Creativity is meant in the broadest sense: artists are creative, but so are scientists, debaters, community builders and dancers, and a project can be anything from a summer camp to a robotics competition to a co-working holiday house for artists. Blackbird looks for inventive, dynamic experiments that encourage young people to be curious, to explore, to be lifelong learners, and to build community and become high-agency people, backing projects that are 0-1 (just starting) or 1-10 (scaling or iterating) rather than established groups. Examples: a neighbourhood community science lab, a hacker house, a hardware garage makerspace, a travelling STEM roadshow, or an after-school arts or coding club. ELIGIBILITY (no flexibility): individuals, groups or organisations established in Australia and/or New Zealand; projects taking place in AU/NZ; projects completed within 12 months; projects whose core focus is primarily creative outcomes; and organisations with less than AUD 1.5M in revenue. WHEN TO APPLY: Believers is open year-round, with EOIs and applications reviewed and progressed on a rolling basis; the program closes when all funds are disbursed or at the end of the FY27 period (30 June 2027), whichever comes first. Expressions of interest for Believers Fund III open on 30 June 2026.
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American Sunlight Project · Fully remote with flexible scheduling. Applicants must hold U.S. citizenship or legal residency. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 2,500 honorarium for the engagement. No application fee.
The American Sunlight Project works to ensure that citizens have access to trustworthy sources to inform the choices they make in their daily lives. It is looking for a Free Expression Fellow to produce its regular newsletter on censorship, helping readers stay informed on a rapidly evolving US political landscape. RESPONSIBILITIES: compile and write 'Last Week in Censorship', a clear and engaging newsletter-style roundup of platform policy changes, censorship news and regulatory developments that erode American democracy; and, in support of the organisation's censorship tracker, compile instances from the weekly briefing into a database. IDEAL CANDIDATE: motivated to document instances of democratic backsliding in the United States and happy to take on a part-time nonprofit commitment in service of that goal. The posting explicitly welcomes students, retirees and people looking to moonlight for a good cause. REQUIRED: U.S. citizenship or legal residency; exceptional writing skills with a strong command of tone, clarity and synthesis; and knowledge of U.S. politics and social media. DESIRABLE: experience in research, journalism, public policy or a related field. STRONG PLUS: familiarity with tech policy, internet culture, free expression issues and/or platform governance. Familiarity with Substack is a plus but not required. TERMS: roughly 5 to 8 hours per week, fully remote with flexible scheduling, starting as soon as possible and running through December 2026 with possible extension pending funding, for a USD 2,500 honorarium. APPLY by emailing your CV, a short cover note of a couple of paragraphs explaining your interest, and a writing sample (preferably on a tech or policy topic) to benjamin@americansunlight.org with 'Fellow Application' in the subject line. No closing date is stated.
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Mondriaan Fund · Dutch museums and other cultural heritage institutions, possibly in collaboration with other heritage institutions. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Maximum 40% of the estimated acquisition value, determined per application from the budget. The estimated value of the object must exceed EUR 50,000, and the applicant must contribute significantly to the acquisition costs. Applications requesting over EUR 500,000 are referred to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. No application fee.
The Acquisitions scheme helps Dutch museums and other cultural heritage institutions buy objects that enrich the Dutch National Cultural Heritage Collection, across everything from contemporary art to natural history collections. Acquired objects must be displayed to the public on a (semi-)permanent basis. CONDITIONS: the estimated value of the object must exceed EUR 50,000; complete provenance research is required; the applicant must contribute significantly to the acquisition costs; where multiple items are involved they must form an inseparable ensemble; the institution must follow the lending guidelines and remain the permanent owner. NOT FUNDED: artists' estates, constructional provisions, or passive conservation. APPLY online through the Mondriaan Fund digital system after registering an account, with valuation reports, condition assessments, provenance research, a presentation plan and an itemised budget. Rolling deadline, but allow about three months for processing.
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Mondriaan Fund · Dutch and non-Dutch galleries subscribing to the Gallery Fair Practice Code, and art book publishers. Fairs may be anywhere. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: GALLERIES: where 40 to 80% of presented works are by artists from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, 50% of the basic stand rental, capped between EUR 4,750 and EUR 9,000 depending on rental cost; where over 80%, 80% of the basic rental, with the same caps. PUBLISHERS: EUR 1,000 where 25 to 50% of publications concern relevant contemporary art, EUR 2,000 where over 50%. Maximum one application per fair per calendar year and no more than three awards annually. No application fee.
Art Fair International covers stand rental for galleries taking visual art from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom to an art fair, and stand rental plus travel and transport costs for art book publishers at art book fairs. WHO CAN APPLY: Dutch and non-Dutch galleries that have signed and actively apply the Gallery Fair Practice Code, and art book publishers. CONDITIONS: an invitation from the fair is required; the artists presented must be artistically and substantively active in professional visual arts; a maximum of one application per fair per calendar year; no more than three awards annually. AMOUNTS scale with how much of the stand is given to artists from the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, as set out in the funding notes. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund digital application system after creating an account, at least six weeks before a fair on the fund's established list, or three months before a fair that is not listed.
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Mondriaan Fund · Visual arts institutions in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Determined per application: up to 50% of the standard amount excluding VAT, where the fee paid meets at least 100% of the guideline. Minimum application EUR 100. The fee must comply with the Fair Pay Rate Table 2023. No application fee.
Artist's Fee reimburses part of the compensation an institution pays an artist for work on an exhibition: producing new work, production-related labour, event activities, and providing artwork for presentation. It does not cover expenses such as materials or transport. WHO CAN APPLY: visual arts institutions in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that publicly exhibit contemporary visual art and/or heritage without a sales objective, and that subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code. CONDITIONS: the artist must hold a bachelor's degree in visual arts or have at least three years of professional experience; the fee must comply with the Fair Pay Rate Table 2023; the application must be submitted at least two months before the exhibition opens; the exhibition must open within 12 months of application; artist invoices must be paid within one month; and institutions already receiving other fair pay funding for 2025-2028 are not eligible. AMOUNT: up to 50% of the standard amount excluding VAT where the fee meets at least 100% of the guideline, with a minimum application of EUR 100. APPLY through the online system after creating an account, with a signed artist contract, the exhibition budget, artist CVs and a recent Chamber of Commerce registration. Note for artists: this is applied for by the institution, not by you, but it is worth pointing an exhibiting venue towards.
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Mondriaan Fund · Non-profit organisations based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Institutions for art education and post-academic institutions are excluded. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Up to 40% of eligible project costs directly tied to visual art and heritage activities. The project budget must exceed EUR 25,000. Grants of EUR 100,000 or more are highly exceptional and require contacting the fund first. No application fee.
Art Heritage Festival supports festivals, biennales, triennales and similar events dedicated to the presentation of visual art and/or heritage, held in physical spaces and occurring no more than once a year. The scheme backs activities that reach diverse audiences or create meaningful public engagement with art and heritage. WHO CAN APPLY: non-profit organisations based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom; institutions for art education and post-academic institutions are excluded. NOT FUNDED: journals, publications, documentaries, symposia, conferences or online-only festivals. CONDITIONS: events must be publicly accessible and held no more than once a year; the project cannot receive simultaneous funding from other Mondriaan Fund grants or specified national cultural programmes; the organisation must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code; and fair artist compensation is mandatory where artists are involved. AMOUNT: up to 40% of eligible project costs, on a project budget above EUR 25,000. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online system after registering an account. Allow three months for processing; activities that have already happened cannot be funded.
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Mondriaan Fund · Cultural institutions in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, including museums, art centres and archives. Art education and post-academic institutions are excluded. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Up to 40% of variable project costs. The project budget must exceed EUR 25,000. Contributions of EUR 100,000 or more require contacting the fund directly. No application fee.
Art Heritage Presentation funds presentations that are innovative and non-standard, rather than business-as-usual programming: exhibitions featuring internationally renowned artists, engaging shows offering fresh perspectives, public co-creation projects, and presentations built around special loans or commissioned work. WHO CAN APPLY: cultural institutions in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that focus on presenting cultural heritage and/or visual art, including museums, art centres and archives; art education and post-academic institutions are excluded, and the institution must be a non-profit legal entity established in the eligible territory. CONDITIONS: presentations must be open to the public; festivals, biennales and other events recurring annually or less often are handled by the separate Art Heritage Festival scheme, not this one; the organisation must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code; and artist fees must be realistic and included in the budget. AMOUNT: up to 40% of variable project costs, on a project budget above EUR 25,000. APPLY online after registering an account, with an institutional profile, project plan, presentation plan, itemised budget and, where applicable, artist information with visual documentation.
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Mondriaan Fund · Dutch museums and other cultural heritage institutions registered with the Dutch Museum Register. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Determined per application; the Mondriaan Fund finances up to 40% of eligible costs. Applicants must contribute significant funding themselves. No application fee.
Collection Mobility supports the revaluation of a collection and, where applicable, the selection, disposal and/or relocation of parts of a collection. NOT FUNDED: construction work, building preservation, archaeological excavation, passive conservation or documentation. WHO CAN APPLY: Dutch museums and other cultural heritage institutions that are publicly accessible, manage nationally or internationally significant collections, and are registered with the Dutch Museum Register. Joint applications are encouraged and, where relevant, institutions must apply together. CONDITIONS: applicants must follow the Basic Principles for Smarter Loan Transactions in the Netherlands; collections must be disposed of in line with the Guideline for the Disposal of Museum Objects; and the applicant must contribute significant funding itself. AMOUNT: up to 40% of eligible costs, determined per application. APPLY through the online system at mondriaanfonds.nl after creating an account, with organisational information, collection details, a project plan, a budget and supporting documents.
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Physical AI Safety Institute (PAISI) · Not stated in the call. PAISI is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit and its team is affiliated with UC Berkeley and the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago; because fellows are given access to physical robot platforms, expect an in-person or hybrid component. No nationality restriction is stated for expressions of interest. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Stipend amount is not published. Fellows receive a stipend, access to physical robot platforms, compute for simulation and training, and structured mentorship. PAISI was seeded by a grant from BlueDot Impact. Free to submit an expression of interest.
Robot foundation models (pi-zero, OpenVLA, GR00T and others) are approaching widespread deployment on the back of more than USD 18 billion in funding, and almost nobody is working on their safety. The Physical AI Safety Institute, a new nonprofit founded by Bear Haon and Kaylene Stocking and seeded by a grant from BlueDot Impact, describes itself as a capacity-building organisation growing the community that develops techniques to interpret, align and control robot foundation models. Its research fellowship runs in 12-week cohorts: each fellow works within a stream led by a mentor on a concrete problem in physical AI safety, with mentors drawn from researchers with track records in robot foundation models, mechanistic interpretability, safe control or adversarial robustness for embodied systems. Each cohort ends with a research symposium where fellows present their work. STREAMS: mechanistic interpretability (sparse autoencoders and activation patching for VLA and WAM architectures); adversarial robustness (jailbreaking and prompt injection in the embodied action space); runtime monitoring (detecting when a policy operates outside its competence envelope); sim-to-real safety transfer (do safety behaviours survive deployment on physical hardware); and robot security (cyberattack vectors, data poisoning and supply chain for deployed robot models). WHO SHOULD APPLY: researchers with strong technical foundations in robotics or machine learning and a demonstrated interest in safety; prior safety experience is not required. PROCESS: this stage is an expression of interest, not a full application. The form takes about two minutes and asks you to pick your stream and preferred cohort dates; concrete details including stipend figures and application deadlines are shared through that channel, and neither is published on the site as of listing. PAISI also publishes seven free curriculum modules running from classical robot safety through VLA interpretability, adversarial robustness and runtime monitoring to deployment evaluation, plus a white paper, The Case for Physical AI Safety, at paisi.ai/the-case-for-physical-ai-safety. Contact: bear@paisi.ai.
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British Council, supported by BFI National Lottery funding in partnership with BFI NETWORK and the BFI International Fund · Open to UK-based filmmakers and XR creatives (UK residents or citizens, aged 18+). Grants fund travel to international festivals, showcases, labs and co-production forums worldwide. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Varies by strand: short and feature film festival grants GBP 150 to 1,500 (typically up to GBP 750); XR travel-only grants GBP 150 to 1,500; large XR grants GBP 1,500 to 5,000; lab grants capped at GBP 6,000; co-production forum grants capped at GBP 2,000. Free to apply.
The British Council's standing Travel Grant Fund helps early to mid-career UK filmmakers and XR creatives represent their work abroad, build networks, reach new audiences and raise the international profile of new and emerging UK film and immersive talent. Supported by BFI National Lottery funding in partnership with BFI NETWORK and the BFI International Fund. WHAT IT FUNDS: travel to attend international film festivals, showcases, training and development labs, and co-production forums, across five strands: short film festival grants, feature film festival grants, interactive/XR grants (including VR, immersive storytelling experiences and installations), lab grants and co-production forum grants. AMOUNTS: short and feature festival grants GBP 150 to 1,500 (typically up to GBP 750); XR travel-only grants GBP 150 to 1,500; large XR grants GBP 1,500 to 5,000; lab grants up to GBP 6,000; co-production forum grants up to GBP 2,000. WHO CAN APPLY: UK residents or citizens aged 18+; applicants can be directors, producers or writers attached to the selected project. KEY CONDITIONS: the festival, lab or forum must appear on the British Council's Key Lists of eligible events, and the project must be registered on the British Council's UK Project Database. DEADLINE: rolling, no fixed deadlines; submit at least two weeks before the event starts (retrospective applications for past events are not accepted). Free to apply.
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European Space Agency (ESA) · Ideas can be submitted from anywhere in the world via ideas.esa.int. To implement a funded idea yourself, you or your affiliated entity must be eligible to do business with ESA under its procurement regulations, which in practice means being based in an ESA member state (the Netherlands qualifies). · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Varies by route and campaign. Successful ideas are supported through PhD or postdoctoral research co-funded by ESA and universities, early technology development activities, or system studies. Free to submit.
OSIP is the European Space Agency's standing front door for unsolicited novel ideas, launched in 2019 and now the main entry point for new concepts into ESA, both in response to specific problems and through open calls. HOW IT WORKS: ideas are submitted through two mechanisms. Campaigns are targeted calls responding to specific questions with defined timelines (recent examples include Future Navigation Demonstrators and elements for the EOCognitiveLab mission); Channels are permanently open, open-ended calls on broader topics with no deadline. Submissions can go through an optional community discussion phase, with voting and comments, before expert evaluation by ESA. WHO CAN SUBMIT: individuals, businesses, universities and organisations anywhere in the world. The catch for funding: to implement a funded idea yourself, you must be eligible to do business with ESA under Article 18 of its procurement regulations, which in practice means affiliation with an entity in an ESA member state. WHAT FUNDING LOOKS LIKE: successful ideas are typically supported as co-funded PhD or postdoctoral research (ESA plus a university), early technology development activities, or system studies; amounts vary by route and campaign. WHY IT IS ON THE DESK: this is the one genuinely public, always-open route into ESA for independent researchers, technologists and artists working with space data or space technology concepts; new campaigns appear regularly, so checking the platform periodically is worthwhile. Submit via ideas.esa.int.
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AIXI Labs · Fully remote, open worldwide; fellows may also work from the organisation's London base in the United Kingdom. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: GBP 2,000 to GBP 3,500 per month stipend, plus a compute budget for machine-learning work. Free to apply.
AIXI Labs is a small London-based non-profit doing AI safety research grounded in algorithmic information theory. Its stated position is that most AI research today is either mathematically clean but narrow, or practical but too opaque for rigorous safety analysis; the lab targets a third category, methods general enough to describe powerful agents and provable enough to support real safety claims, using AIXI (the theoretical model of unbounded artificial superintelligence) and then porting the strongest of those ideas to modern LLM-based agents. The fellowship is a quarterly, rolling programme for researchers who want to work on this agenda under close mentorship from the core team: Cole Wyeth (Founder and Executive Director), Marcus Hutter (Research Director) and Aram Ebtekar (Founding Research Scientist). Fellows pursue a focused research project over roughly a quarter and receive a monthly stipend plus a compute budget for machine-learning work. The fellowship is fully remote, so fellows may work from anywhere in the world or from the London base. RESPONSIBILITIES: pursue a self-directed research project aligned with the lab's algorithmic-information-theoretic approach to AI safety, spanning anything from foundational theory to empirical tests with LLM-based agents; shape the project direction around your own strengths and interests, as the lab supports a range of work within this framework; and contribute papers, blog posts or other written output communicating results to the broader AI safety and ML research communities. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: a research background at the level of a current PhD student (for primarily empirical projects, a master's-level command of the relevant mathematics paired with substantial industry or applied research experience can also qualify); solid grounding in probability, statistics, information theory and reinforcement learning, sufficient to engage seriously with AIXI-style theoretical models (prior expertise in algorithmic information theory or AIXI is NOT required); strong verbal and written communication skills; genuine motivation to reduce existential risk from advanced AI and enthusiasm for the lab's kind of work. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: publications at top ML, AI or theory venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ALT or COLT, though the lab values the strength of your best work over volume; background in algorithmic information theory, computability theory, learning theory or related theoretical computer science; experience fine-tuning, evaluating or red-teaming LLM-based and/or RL agents; prior engagement with the UAI/AIXI community or related fields, including members of the lab's online reading groups. APPLICATIONS are reviewed on a rolling basis and previous applicants remain eligible for later rounds.
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European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance (ESWA) · Barcelona, Spain. Gathering runs 2-5 November 2026 (travel day out 1 November, travel day home 5 November). · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: PARTICIPANTS: fully funded, with travel, accommodation and food covered for all selected participants. SESSION FACILITATORS: EUR 300 per 90-minute session, plus travel, accommodation and meals covered. Free to apply.
NO PUBLISHED CLOSING DATE: the call gives no application deadline, so the operative cutoff is the gathering itself on 2-5 November 2026; apply early. The European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance (ESWA) brings back its Digital Rights Gathering in 2026 as The (W)horrors Edition, in Barcelona just after Halloween. It is a capacity and community-building space by and for sex workers, convened to confront the surveillance, censorship and digital violence they face online and to imagine and build more resilient digital futures. A limited number of spaces is reserved for allies working in adjacent digital rights and harm reduction spaces to host sessions. TWO CALLS ARE OPEN. (1) CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS, for sex workers who want to deepen their knowledge of digital rights, online safety and community resilience. Requirements: be a current or former sex worker who is also a member of an organisation in ESWA's network; be available for three days of interactive sessions, skill-sharing and collective learning on 2, 3 and 4 November, and free from 1 November (travel out) through 5 November (travel home), even though some final-day sessions are optional. Selected participants receive full funding covering travel, accommodation and food. (2) CALL FOR TRAINERS AND SESSION PROPOSALS, for facilitators, trainers and educators experienced in digital rights, online safety or sex worker-led organising, who want to deliver an interactive workshop, skill-share or creative session. Sessions run 90 minutes and are compensated at EUR 300 per session, with travel, accommodation and meals covered. Open to current or former sex workers, and to allies with experience in digital rights, digital discrimination, digital security and related fields. SESSION STRANDS: Digital (W)horrors, naming the threats faced online and unpacking how surveillance, censorship and platform policy work against sex workers, including shadowbanning and algorithmic censorship, over-zealous content moderation, law enforcement and third-party surveillance, deplatforming, non-consensual data scraping and retention, and the platforms and policies that enable them; Building Resilience, practical hands-on skills covering open source and privacy-respecting software, how and why to divest from Big Tech platforms, alternative and encrypted communication tools, digital security basics such as protecting data, devices and identity, and other harm-reduction strategies for working and organising online; Imagining Better Futures, creative forward-looking sessions on what a sex worker friendly internet would look like, including prototyping inclusive digital tools, platforms and spaces built by and for sex workers, new apps, alternative social platforms, community-owned tech, and speculative design exercises; Resourcing the Group, sessions focused on care and resilience, including writing and reflection, grounding and somatic exercises, tools for self-care and sustainability in activism, and space for radical rest. The organisers welcome grounded, political and creative contributions from anyone who would like to lead a session. Separate application forms for participants and for session proposals are linked from the call page. Questions: ana@eswalliance.org.
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Cultuurloket DigitALL (successor to Kickstart Cultuurfonds) · Netherlands and the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom. No city or region restriction. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Up to EUR 75,000. Covers pilot development, audience testing, and knowledge development or training via partner organisations if budgeted. Hardware-only purchases are not eligible. No stated co-financing percentage. No application fee. Annual donation budget of EUR 1.9 million in 2026 and 2027.
Cultuurloket DigitALL funds the digital innovation of the Dutch cultural sector and is the strongest dedicated digital-culture route currently open to Dutch cultural organisations. It is the successor to the discontinued Kickstart Cultuurfonds, backed by the VandenEnde Foundation, VSBfonds, Ammodo, Het Cultuurfonds and others. The pilot contribution of up to EUR 75,000 supports developing and running a first pilot, prototype or live version of a digital tool, which covers a wide range of creative-technology work embedded in festivals, exhibitions and public programmes. Eligible applicants are theatres, music venues, film theatres, museums, festivals and professional performing arts producers, with collaborations between institutions given priority. The pilot must be tested with the intended public audience, not only with experts, and funding cannot be used exclusively for hardware acquisition. Applications go through an online portal with no deadline and are handled in order of receipt. TIMING: a decision follows within ten weeks of submission, so plan roughly three months of lead time between applying and project start. Training and knowledge development through partner organisations is only covered when included in the submitted budget, so build it in from the outset.
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Brabant C (Provincie Noord-Brabant culture investment fund) in partnership with ASML · Noord-Brabant, Brainport-focused. Applicant must be based in the Brainport region (21 municipalities including Eindhoven, Helmond, Best) or in eight adjacent municipalities including Tilburg and Den Bosch, and the project must demonstrably benefit culture in the Brainport region. Province-restricted. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: EUR 25,000 minimum, up to EUR 500,000. Contribution capped at 50 percent of total project budget, so 50 percent co-financing is mandatory. EUR 1.7 million available per year, split evenly between ASML and Brabant C. Requests at or above EUR 50,000 must include a future-viability plan. No application fee.
The closest thing the Netherlands has to a dedicated regional art-and-technology fund, being a public-private scheme co-financed by ASML and sited in the country's main technology region. It funds professional cultural projects of high quality with national or international reach, which in practice covers festivals, exhibitions and public programmes including media art and creative technology work. Private-law legal entities only (stichting, vereniging or BV); both new and existing cultural organisations qualify. Projects are assessed on societal impact (must address at least two of accessibility, inclusivity, diversity, social cohesion), cultural entrepreneurship and sustainability, alongside professional artistic quality. Applications are accepted all year round via a two-stage route: an intake where Brabant C scouts give an initial assessment, followed by a full application, pitch session and decision. TIMING RULES ARE STRICT and are the main planning constraint: the full application must be submitted a minimum of 12 weeks before the project starts, and the project may not begin until at least 12 weeks after a complete application has been approved. The internal clock runs roughly two weeks for a completeness check, about six weeks to the pitch session, and about four weeks from pitch to decision. Brabant C never covers more than half the budget, so a matched partner is required from the outset. A separate Brabant C matching scheme for impactful culture projects is open year-round through 31 December 2026 for Brabant-based organisations outside the Brainport region.
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Het Cultuurfonds (formerly Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds), via voordekunst · Netherlands. Open to individual makers and collectives based in the Netherlands, across all disciplines. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Ontwikkelbijdrage (development contribution) up to EUR 5,000, awarded once every three years. A separate matchfundingbijdrage of EUR 250 to EUR 1,500 (max 50 percent of the crowdfunding target) is available once a year for public-facing projects. No application fee.
Since 2025 Het Cultuurfonds runs a dedicated application route for individual makers and collectives, separate from its project grants for foundations and associations. The ontwikkelbijdrage awards up to EUR 5,000 for research, workshops, masterclasses, courses and training, experiments and equipment, and for the pre-phase of a project, giving makers room to test and develop an idea before it has to be fully executed. It is open to all disciplines: visual artists, theatre makers, spoken word artists, photographers, musicians, ceramicists, restorers and more. A separate matchfundingbijdrage of EUR 250 to EUR 1,500 supports crowdfunding campaigns for public-facing projects such as exhibitions or performances. The route is run with voordekunst. Applying is a two-step process: a short vooraanvraag (pre-application) answered within one week, then a full application answered within four weeks, with development funds paid out within two weeks of approval. Rolling intake, no application fee.
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British Film Institute (BFI Filmmaking Fund, National Lottery) · United Kingdom (applications must come from a limited company registered and centrally managed in the UK) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Up to GBP 1,250,000, the largest single award in the current BFI portfolio, though the BFI notes it does not expect to support many projects at the maximum level. Production budgets from GBP 1M to GBP 15M for experienced directors, GBP 3.5M to GBP 15M for debut directors. No application fee.
Impact is the higher-budget production strand of the BFI Filmmaking Fund and carries the largest award available in the current BFI portfolio at up to GBP 1.25 million. It sits above the Discovery strand in scale, serving experienced directors with production budgets from GBP 1 million to GBP 15 million, and debut directors whose budgets exceed GBP 3.5 million. UNLIKE DISCOVERY, Impact accepts applications on a continuous rolling basis with no round structure and no published closing date, though applicants must submit at least 20 weeks before principal photography begins. SELECTION is explicitly criteria-driven: projects must address at least three of the BFI's stated aims, covering equity and inclusion, audience or cultural impact, talent development, creative risk, production activity across the UK nations and regions, and environmental sustainability. ELIGIBILITY: applications must come from a limited company registered and centrally managed in the UK, so individuals cannot apply. A dedicated producer is always required, though unlike Discovery the writer and director may be the same person. Directing credits must be evidenced. No explicit nationality or residency test for the director or writer is published. NOTE: the BFI cautions that maximum-level awards are rare, so realistic requests will typically fall well below the GBP 1.25 million ceiling.
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British Film Institute (BFI Filmmaking Fund, National Lottery) · United Kingdom (producers must apply through a limited company registered at Companies House) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Award amounts are not published on the fund page. No application fee.
Development Funding is the earliest-stage strand of the BFI Filmmaking Fund, supporting original live action and animated feature films through script and package development to the point where they are viable candidates for production finance. It is aimed at distinctive fiction projects from what the BFI calls 'adventurous storytellers', across a wide range of genres rather than a single house style. UNLIKE DISCOVERY, it does not operate in rounds: applications are accepted year-round, with the only fixed interruption being an annual closure through the month of April, plus occasional short pauses during periods of high demand or holidays. ELIGIBILITY: the application must be made by a producer through a limited company registered at Companies House, so unincorporated individuals are ineligible. Nationality and residency requirements are not published on the fund page. NOTE: award amounts are not published, so the ceiling should be treated as unknown rather than assumed. Successful applicants are required to publicly acknowledge National Lottery support in project credits and materials.
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British Film Institute (BFI National Lottery) · United Kingdom (legally constituted organisations centrally managed in the UK, not more than 50% foreign-owned) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Pilot projects GBP 10,000 to GBP 20,000. Standard projects GBP 20,000 to GBP 500,000 per year. Immersive projects may include up to GBP 150,000 of production costs within the GBP 500,000 cap. Total fund GBP 19.7M over three years. No application fee.
The Audience Projects Fund distributes GBP 19.7 million of National Lottery money over three years to widen UK audiences for film and immersive work, covering exhibition, distribution, festivals, touring programmes and sector-support initiatives. It reopened in November 2025 and runs continuously with no closing date, which makes it one of the more accessible large BFI pots for organisations working on the audience-facing rather than production side. AWARDS are tiered: small pilot projects receive GBP 10,000 to GBP 20,000, while full projects can receive GBP 20,000 to GBP 500,000 per year, with immersive projects permitted to include up to GBP 150,000 of production cost inside that envelope. ELIGIBILITY is strictly institutional. Applicants must be legally constituted organisations centrally managed in the UK and not more than 50% foreign-owned. Eligible types include limited companies (not classed as 'large' under the Companies Act 2006), community interest companies, LLPs, UK local or statutory authorities, and registered UK charities or trusts. Individual practitioners cannot apply. Applicants must evidence experience in marketing, festivals, distribution, immersive installations, cultural programming, touring or sector support. TIMING: there are no deadlines but lead times are enforced. Single-film distribution projects must apply at least 10 weeks before release; all other projects at least 16 weeks before the project starts.
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British Film Institute (BFI National Lottery Screen Heritage Fund) · United Kingdom (applicants must hold a UK bank account and be eligible to work in the UK) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Award amounts are not published on the fund page. No application fee.
The rare BFI stream that individuals can apply to directly. Individual Skills funding supports training and professional development for people working, or intending to work, in the UK screen heritage sector, the field concerned with preserving, digitising and widening public access to screen archive collections. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be 18 or over, working or intending to work in the UK screen heritage sector, hold a UK bank account, and be eligible to work in the UK. TIMING: applications are rolling with no deadline, but must be submitted at least eight weeks before the training starts. All funded activity must be completed by 31 March 2029, the end of the current National Lottery funding plan period. CONTEXT: the wider Screen Heritage Fund has three strands. Project funding, open to legally constituted not-for-profit organisations operating a screen archive or collection network, runs year-round with a 16-week lead time and prioritises collections that better reflect the diversity of the UK. Resilience funding for the 2026-29 cycle closed on 31 March 2026 and is not currently accepting applications. NOTE: award ranges are not published on the fund overview page.
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Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab · Princeton, NJ, USA (in-person) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 7,277.77 per month (about USD 87,300/year) for the 18-month full-time appointment, plus a comprehensive benefits package (medical, dental and vision insurance; life and short/long-term disability coverage; flexible spending accounts; paid holidays; retirement plans; tuition assistance; employee assistance program). No application fee.
The Institute for Advanced Study is seeking a 2026-27 Civic Science Fellow to advance understanding of the social, democratic and scientific implications of artificial intelligence. The full-time, 18-month position is based in the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab led by Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science Alondra Nelson. Working closely with Professor Nelson and Lab members, the Fellow contributes to research and policy analysis and to scholarly and public-facing publications, and supports multidisciplinary, multisector initiatives at the intersection of AI, science and governance. DUTIES (75% Lab work): conduct original research on the Lab's AI-and-society agenda; synthesize scholarship on the social implications of AI, sociotechnical approaches to AI governance and the epistemological implications of AI in research; contribute policy research on governance mechanisms that strengthen democratic institutions; help organize convenings and working groups; collaborate on manuscripts, reports and grant proposals; support editorial development of publications; and develop public-facing essays, policy briefs and digital materials. The remaining 25% supports the Fellow's own independent research, network-building and full participation in the intellectual life of IAS. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: a PhD in the social sciences, sciences or humanities; a strong record of scholarly research, writing and publication on the social implications of science and technology or related fields; and exceptional writing and editing skills for both academic and non-academic audiences. Preferred: specialization in science and technology studies, science and technology policy, organizational studies or qualitative methods, and demonstrated engagement with AI governance and technology policy debates. Apply with a cover letter and resume via the IAS/Paylocity posting.
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Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) · Remote; international organisation. Experience working in or with global majority countries encouraged. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 5,000 stipend for a 6-8 month fellowship. No application fee.
The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) Research Fellowship supports curious, passionate mid-career researchers and practitioners to explore frontier questions on digital public infrastructure (DPI) and data governance. Fellows bring their own knowledge and research agenda while contributing to DIAL's core thematic priorities: creating more value for more people from data; understanding how digital systems and services impact people, including and especially the most marginalised; and accelerating the adoption of data-sharing and governance practices that fuel innovation and empower people. SUPPORT: a USD 5,000 stipend for research completed over 6-8 months, plus mentorship from DIAL staff and industry experts, access to DIAL's network and resources, collaboration with partner organisations, and support amplifying the work. Each fellow produces two preliminary pieces and one final, more extensive output (research papers or reports, policy briefs, expert-comment series, etc.). ELIGIBILITY: professionals from academia, the private sector, and civil society, typically with 8-15 years of experience in digital development, policy, or research; demonstrated work at the intersection of technology and society (including DPI and data governance); a track record of high-quality writing, research, or policy briefs; experience working in or with global majority countries; and strong analytical and communication skills. TO APPLY (rolling basis): submit a CV or resume, a writing sample or portfolio, and a research proposal. Questions: fellows@dial.global. Apply via https://dial.global/apply-to-our-fellows-program/.
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Manifund · Remote; US-based platform, open worldwide. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Grants typically USD 5,000 to 50,000, recommended by independent regrantors from their own budgets. No application fee. No legal entity required.
Manifund's regranting program funds AI safety and global-catastrophic-risk work through a network of expert regrantors, each given an independent budget to recommend grants to people and projects they find promising. Applicants submit a project proposal on the Manifund platform; regrantors can then offer funding. GRANTS: typically USD 5,000 to 50,000, though amounts vary. ELIGIBILITY: individuals (no legal entity or institutional affiliation required) and organizations working on AI safety or reducing catastrophic risk from AI. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; per-regrantor budget availability varies over time. Learn more at the regranting page and apply on the Manifund platform (manifund.org).
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Field of Vision · United States and international; filmmakers based anywhere. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Commissioning fees and production funding (many films are commissioned assignments); specific amounts are not published publicly. No submission fee.
Field of Vision is a filmmaker-driven documentary unit that creates and commissions original short-form and feature nonfiction visual journalism. It funds and commissions filmmakers, often as assignments, and supports projects in development and production (it does not acquire finished films). SUPPORT: commissioning fees and production funding; specific amounts are not published publicly. ELIGIBILITY: filmmakers of all experience levels, within and outside the United States. APPLICATIONS are accepted on a rolling basis, with no fixed funding cycles or deadlines. Submit via the Field of Vision submissions page.
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Verein Filmhaus Basel und Umgebung (Basel House of Film) · Basel, Switzerland · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Housing provided plus a stipend to cover travel and living costs; no fee to participate
The Basel House of Film, run by the Verein Filmhaus Basel und Umgebung, offers a three month residency for emerging artists working in film and television. Residents receive housing at the Filmhaus in the Basel old town plus a stipend to cover travel and living costs. There is no obligation to produce work, and residents can use the open schedule to write a script, prepare a film, draw storyboards, or edit. The facility includes a clubhouse, meeting room, office space, a small cinema with VR equipment, and an editing and grading suite. The program targets up and coming filmmakers, and both national and international applicants are welcome. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through the online form, followed by a CV, motivation letter, and portfolio sent to the residency email.
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Kaatsbaan Cultural Park · Tivoli, New York, USA · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Generously subsidized residency; includes hotel-style on-campus rooms, locally sourced meals, and access to studios, a 160-seat black box theater, and a 153-acre Hudson Valley campus. No artist stipend.
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park offers subsidized residencies for artists of all genres to create, live, and collaborate on its 153-acre campus in the Hudson Valley near Tivoli, New York. Residencies are individually designed between the artist, Kaatsbaan, and partners to fit the needs of the artist or company, welcoming disciplines from dance, theater, music, and visual arts to writing, composition, design, and film. The program is generously subsidized and includes individual hotel-style rooms, healthy locally sourced meals, and access to professional studios with sprung floors and pianos, a 160-seat black box theater, and exhibition space. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through an inquiry form, with early inquiries encouraged to secure preferred dates. Artists at any career stage worldwide may apply, individually or as collaborative teams. There is no application fee and no artist stipend.
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Amarte Fonds · Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom (the ABC and SSS islands). Applicants must be based there. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Development contribution up to EUR 2,750; project contribution up to EUR 5,500. Up to 80 percent paid in advance, remainder after the report is approved. No application fee.
Amarte Fonds is a private Dutch foundation that supports the arts, with rolling (continuous) contributions for visual artists and independent curators. There are two contribution types: a development contribution of up to EUR 2,750 and a project contribution of up to EUR 5,500. Up to 80 percent is paid in advance, with the remainder after the final report is approved. Applicants must be based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom (the ABC and SSS islands). The fund also supports work across theatre, film, music, literature and interdisciplinary projects through specific programmes. There is no fixed deadline and no application fee; decisions are relatively fast. Apply year-round via the online portal.
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Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) · Netherlands. Dutch companies and self-employed paying payroll or income tax that conduct qualifying R&D. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Payroll/income tax reduction for R&D, not a cash grant. 2026: 36 percent of the first EUR 380,000 of R&D wage costs (50 percent for startups), 16 percent above; fixed deduction for self-employed. National budget EUR 1.817 billion for 2026. No application fee.
The WBSO (Wet Bevordering Speur- en Ontwikkelingswerk) is the Dutch R&D tax credit administered by RVO. It reduces payroll/wage tax for companies with R&D staff and provides an income-tax deduction for self-employed people doing R&D; it is a tax credit, not a cash grant. For 2026 the benefit is 36 percent of the first EUR 380,000 of R&D wage and other costs (50 percent for qualifying startups) and 16 percent above that; self-employed receive a fixed deduction (and need at least 500 R&D hours per year). Eligible applicants are Dutch companies and self-employed people paying payroll or income tax who carry out qualifying R&D in the EU. Applications are made in advance via Mijn RVO and cannot be retroactive; for coverage of the final three months of a year the deadline is 30 September. Time-keeping and project administration are required. No application fee.
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Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago · United States; Fellows embedded full-time in government, non-profit and social-enterprise host institutions · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Living stipend of USD 47,000 for the year (scaled up for placements in cities with a higher cost of living than Chicago), plus a separate reimbursable health-insurance stipend of up to USD 5,000.
A one-year fellowship placing Fellows directly inside government, non-profit and social-enterprise host institutions across the United States to design and implement high-impact programs, translating data-driven insights into actionable policy recommendations, new programs and operational changes for the partners they serve. STIPEND: USD 47,000 living stipend for the year (scaled up for higher-cost cities) plus a reimbursable health-insurance stipend up to USD 5,000. ELIGIBILITY: primarily intended for candidates graduating from their academic programs in 2026 and/or already working full-time; this is a full-time 12-month commitment. PROCESS: applications and interviews are considered on a ROLLING basis starting in March, so applicants are encouraged to apply early; most engagements begin between June and November, with partner match meetings 6 to 8 weeks before the anticipated start. APPLY: https://www.adf.uchicago.edu/apply
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Mercatus Center, George Mason University · Remote; projects and applicants worldwide · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Grant size is set per project and is not published (ranges from small fast grants to larger awards). No application fee.
Emergent Ventures funds entrepreneurs and thinkers worldwide with highly scalable, zero-to-one ideas for meaningfully improving society. It is aimed at individuals (applicants must be 13 or older) rather than institutions, and international and non-US applicants are eligible; grants are awarded to people around the world. Dedicated support is available for projects focused on India, Africa, the Caribbean or Ukraine. Grant amounts are not disclosed and are set per project. Applications are accepted on a rolling, continuous basis through an online form. The programme launched in 2018 and is administered by Tyler Cowen at the Mercatus Center.
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Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), UC Berkeley · Berkeley, California, USA (in-person) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience, on UC Berkeley salary scales (negotiated). Funding for two years, renewable up to three given satisfactory performance. Eligible for visa sponsorship, with CHAI also contributing to visa costs for fellows and their dependents. No application fee.
The CHAI Research Fellowship trains highly qualified postdoctoral researchers to advance beneficial AI, working with CHAI faculty Stuart Russell, Pieter Abbeel and Anca Dragan and collaborating with affiliate faculty at Berkeley AI Research and beyond. Fellows have broad freedom to pursue novel research toward provably beneficial AI systems in areas such as reasoning, decision making, learning, multi-agent systems and philosophical foundations, using probability theory, game theory and control theory. Current topics of interest include theoretical foundations of intelligent agent architecture, expressive formal languages for probability models (including probabilistic programming), decision making over long time scales, cumulative lifelong learning, human-in-the-loop planning and reinforcement learning, human-robot interaction, the structure of human preferences, acting on behalf of multiple humans, robust cooperation in heterogeneous multi-agent systems, and mechanism design for human-machine systems. Fellows may also lead collaborations, advise junior researchers, and teach. QUALIFICATIONS: a PhD (or about to be obtained) in a relevant technical discipline (computer science, statistics, mathematics, or theoretical economics) and a record of high-quality published research; prior work on the AI control problem is not required. International applicants are eligible (visa sponsorship provided). TO APPLY: submit via the CHAI application form a resume, a one-page statement of interest describing the research you would like to undertake, and the names and emails of two academic referees. Start date is flexible and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis (no fixed deadline). General enquiries: chai-info@berkeley.edu.
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GitHub · Remote (GitHub Sponsors-supported regions) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: $10,000 per project via GitHub Sponsors ($6,000 at the kickoff sprint, $2,000 at 6 months, $2,000 at 12 months), plus security training and community. No application fee.
GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund supports maintainers to improve the security of widely-used open-source software, pairing funding with hands-on security training. ELIGIBILITY: individual maintainers or teams of up to three, aged 18 or older, in a region supported by GitHub Sponsors; applicants cannot work for GitHub or its parent company. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; apply once to be considered for upcoming 2026 sessions. Apply via the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund page.
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Sovereign Tech Agency (Germany) · Remote (worldwide) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Investment-style funding for open digital base technologies; amounts vary and are often EUR 100,000+. No application fee.
The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in the open digital infrastructure that underpins the modern internet, funding maintenance, security and development of critical open-source base technologies. ELIGIBILITY: individuals, companies and non-profits maintaining or developing critical open-source infrastructure; open worldwide. Applications are accepted on a rolling, year-round basis via the Sovereign Tech Fund page.
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Zerodha (FLOSS/fund) · Remote (worldwide) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: $10,000 to $100,000 per project (approximately $1,000,000 per year total budget). No application fee.
FLOSS/fund, backed by Zerodha, provides financial support to free and open-source software projects and maintainers. ELIGIBILITY: individuals and projects worldwide; applicants apply by publishing a funding.json manifest in their public repository as described on the fund's site. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with no deadline.
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Effective Altruism Funds · Remote (worldwide) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Individual stipends and project grants, typically ~$2,500 to $120,000+ (recent average around $38,000 per grant). No application fee.
Effective Altruism Funds' Long-Term Future Fund makes grants to individuals and small groups working to reduce risks from advanced AI and other threats to humanity's long-term future, including technical AI safety and alignment research, field-building and communication. ELIGIBILITY: individuals and small groups; not geographically restricted. Applications accepted on a rolling basis via the EA Funds application form.
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Pulitzer Center · Remote / field-based (international reporting; open worldwide) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Most awards $5,000 to $10,000 per project, covering reporting hard costs (typically no salaries or equipment). No application fee.
Pulitzer Center reporting grants supporting in-depth international journalism on under-reported global issues. Open to reporters, photographers, audio and video journalists, and documentary filmmakers worldwide. Grants cover the hard costs of reporting projects. ELIGIBILITY: professional journalists and visual storytellers anywhere in the world; both freelance and staff. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis via the Pulitzer Center grant portal.
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Pulitzer Center · United States (US-based stories) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Reporting grants covering project hard costs (typically no salaries or equipment). No application fee.
Pulitzer Center's 'Bringing Stories Home' initiative supports in-depth local journalism on under-covered issues in communities across the United States. ELIGIBILITY: freelance and staff journalists working on US-based stories. Grants cover the hard costs of reporting. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis via the Pulitzer Center reporting-grants page.
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Nederlands Letterenfonds (Dutch Foundation for Literature) · Netherlands (Dutch-language literary creators - writers, illustrators, translators) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: EUR 500 to EUR 2,500 per grant. No application fee.
Development grants from the Nederlands Letterenfonds (Dutch Foundation for Literature) for starting and advanced Dutch literary creators - writers, illustrators and translators - to fund training, coaching, editorial support, or travel and research abroad linked to a literary project. EUR 500 to EUR 2,500 per grant. ELIGIBILITY: Dutch-language literary creators (Dutch or Flemish-speaking world); see funder's application page for full eligibility criteria. CYCLE: applications are reviewed on a ROLLING basis (the scheme has been open since February 2026 and there is no fixed deadline). No application fee.
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Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy / Good Ventures Foundation) · Worldwide (open to applicants in any country) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Grant amounts vary, no specified maximum or minimum. Covers tuition/fees, living costs during transition, and project costs. No predetermined number of grants; programme funds any application above its general bar.
Rolling grant programme funding individuals at any career stage who want to pursue careers that could help reduce global catastrophic risks or otherwise improve the long-term future. Especially interested in candidates working on risks from future advances in AI and global catastrophic biological risks. Funds graduate study (master's/PhD/MPP/law school), unpaid internships, postdocs, professional certifications, online courses, independent study/upskilling, career-transition and exploration periods, and academic sabbaticals. Concrete examples Coefficient Giving lists: a senior ML engineer doing six months of independent study to investigate AI risk mitigation careers; a physics PhD doing self-guided ML interpretability work to transition into technical AI safety; a management consultant exploring how to apply their skill set to GCR; a tenured ML/CS professor taking a one-year sabbatical to contribute to AI safety or governance. Open globally; no institutional affiliation required. Looks for candidates whose funding would 'make a difference' (otherwise unable to find sufficient funding, or existing funding has restrictions). Encourages applications from women and people of color. Now subsumes the former Biosecurity Scholarship. Applications are open until further notice and assessed on a rolling basis. Free to apply.
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Kapor Foundation · Remote (US-focused tech policy/research) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Cash award (amount per project; first awards announced by 30 June 2026)
Supports journalists producing long-form investigative reports and tech-policy researchers conducting research, analysis or evaluation that informs policy related to the Kapor Foundation's three priority areas, with an emphasis on responsible AI and tech ethics. Priority areas: CS/AI Education, Innovation, Governance. Aims to dismantle systemic inequities in the tech sector by funding researchers and investigative journalists exploring barriers and driving actionable solutions. Applications accepted on a rolling basis; first awards to be announced by 30 June 2026.
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting · Worldwide (remote application) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Typically $5,000 to $10,000+ per project (covers reporting hard costs; no salaries or equipment)
Funds data-driven reporting that uses ML, NLP, satellite imagery, sensors and other computational methods on under-reported issues. Open to freelance and staff data journalists worldwide. Reviewed first-come, first-served on a rolling basis; decisions usually within a month.
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting · Worldwide (remote application) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Variable reporting hard costs (no salaries or equipment)
Lightweight rolling grant for individual journalists worldwide (writers, photographers, radio, film; freelance or staff) examining how AI systems are designed, sold and deployed in communities. Faster turnaround than the Pulitzer AI Accountability Fellowship: decisions in 1 to 2 weeks.
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C Magazine · Toronto, Canada (open to writers internationally) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: 35-45 cents/word; print reviews flat CAD $430; online reviews CAD $210. No fee.
Contemporary art magazine commissioning paid art writing and criticism, with pitches accepted on an ongoing basis (online reviews/pitches continuous; themed print issues have set deadlines, e.g. the Spring issue around 15 September 2026). A direct paid outlet for criticism on digital, new-media and AI art. ELIGIBILITY: writers at all experience levels are invited; not restricted to Canada. Mostly pitch-based, with short online reviews accepted unsolicited.
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Critical Playground · Remote · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Paid commissions
Commissioned long-form writing at the intersection of design, technology, art and culture. Editorial themes: designing with AI as cultural and infrastructural system; responsive and adaptive materials; politics of platforms and creative-infrastructure governance; post-digital hybrid making; designing for collapse and continuity; creative research as practice. In-depth pieces only, no press releases or promotional copy.
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Funded (see grant page)
Commission artists to create new work in publicly accessible spaces such as hospitals or museums. Open to individuals and organisations. Continuous deadline.
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Funded (see grant page)
Support for visual artists with 4+ years of experience to expand their portfolio, increase visibility or conduct research. Continuous deadline.
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands or abroad; applicants must be based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Fixed contribution of EUR 2,785 per month for a working period of up to 6 months, or a flexible contribution for up to 12 months with the amount based on the project plan and budget. At least 10 percent of the requested sum must come from the applicant, via personal investment, third-party contributions, a Fonds Kwadraat interest-free loan or crowdfunding. No application fee.
Rolling project funding from the Mondriaan Fund for visual artists who want to carry out a concrete artistic plan, research project or working period in the Netherlands or abroad. The fund's definition of visual art is broad and explicitly includes installation art, conceptual art, performance, artistic research, photography, audiovisual, digital, sound and (new) media art, and art in public space. AMOUNTS: a fixed contribution of EUR 2,785 per month for up to 6 months, or a flexible contribution for up to 12 months sized to the project budget; hired expertise, materials and equipment can be part of the budget. The fixed contribution cannot be awarded within 1 year of receiving an Artist Start grant. ELIGIBILITY: visual artists from the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, professionally active for at least 1 year. CONDITIONS: applicants must contribute at least 10 percent of the sum requested; this own contribution may be personal investment, third-party support, an interest-free loan from Fonds Kwadraat or crowdfunding. APPLY at any time through the Mondriaan Fund online application system; allow around 3 months processing once the application is complete.
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Funded (see grant page)
Support for visual artists at the beginning of their careers with plans for new work. Continuous deadline.
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Funded (see grant page)
Funding for preliminary research into exhibitions, events, articles or presentations. For curators. Continuous deadline.
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Funded (see grant page)
Support for owners and managers of objects registered as protected heritage. Continuous deadline.
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Funded (see grant page)
Voucher to assist hiring artisans for artistic research or work production. Continuous deadline.
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Funded (see grant page)
Voucher covering childcare costs for visual artists with dependents under compulsory school age. Continuous deadline.
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Mondriaan Fund · Netherlands · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Funded (see grant page)
Funding for developing and deepening artistic practice. Continuous deadline.
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Mondriaan Fund (Mondriaan Fonds) · Activity takes place outside the Netherlands. Applicants must be based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Up to EUR 2,500, covering travel and accommodation costs only. No application fee.
Quick-response voucher for visual artists, curators, art critics and art observers based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom who have been invited to take part in a public programme abroad. Eligible activities include giving a lecture, performance, book presentation or taking part in a panel at a contemporary visual art institution, venue, festival or symposium outside the Netherlands. Participation in an exhibition and commercial gallery or art fair contexts are not eligible. Visual artists need at least one year of professional practice; curators, critics and art observers need at least two years. Applicants cannot be enrolled full-time in a Bachelor's, Master's or postdoctoral programme. The voucher covers travel and accommodation up to EUR 2,500. Rolling intake, but the timing window is strict: applications are accepted a maximum of 4 months and a minimum of 5 weeks before the activity starts. No application fee.
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City of Karlsruhe Department of Cultural Affairs / UNESCO City of Media Arts (UCCoMA) · Karlsruhe, Germany (Karlsruhe-resident applicants only) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Project-based (smaller media-art projects); also includes networking, infrastructure, third-party funding advice and PR support
Rolling general project funding for smaller media-art works, events and research. Covers interdisciplinary projects across music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature, film, architecture, socioculture, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, and children's and youth culture. For artists, professionals, initiatives and institutions based in Karlsruhe (group applications must include at least one person/institution with first residence or registered office in Karlsruhe). Applied for via the City of Karlsruhe online application; selected by UCCoMA Office staff.
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Open Technology Fund (OTF) · Worldwide · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: $10,000 to $900,000 (sweet spot $50,000 to $200,000)
Rolling-deadline fund for technology-focused projects that promote human rights, internet freedom and open societies. Funds anti-censorship, anti-surveillance, privacy-preserving and circumvention tools, plus applied research. Two-stage process: submit a Concept Note via the OTF online application system; reviewed monthly with feedback in 6-8 weeks. Open internationally.
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BFI Doc Society · UK · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Up to £150,000 non-recoupable grant. No application fee.
The BFI Doc Society Features Production Fund (delivered via BFI with Doc Society as delegate partner) supports UK filmmakers producing non-fiction feature films intended for theatrical release. Two strands: Directions (first- or second-time directors) and Momentum (established talent). AMOUNT: up to £150,000 non-recoupable grant (the total Doc Society contribution per project cannot exceed £150,000). ELIGIBILITY: UK-based filmmakers, both emerging and established directors; experienced and debut producers eligible; projects must meet at least three of six stated priorities: equity/diversity, audience impact, talent development, creative risk, UK-wide access, and environmental sustainability. PROCESS: two-stage — submit an Expression of Interest, then a Full Application if invited. Rolling intake year-round. Opened May 2026. APPLY via BFI Doc Society website. Contact: hellobfi@docsociety.org.
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microagi · Munich, Germany or Zurich, Switzerland; in-person, 6-month residence. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Up to $2,000,000 in compute resources; $10,000/month stipend. No application fee stated. $10,000 referral bonus if you refer an accepted fellow.
The microagi Research Fellowship (Cohort 01) provides researchers with frontier-lab resources and the freedom to work on hard problems in robotics, embodied AI, and the systems around them. Fellows work in residence for six months at microagi's offices in Munich or Zurich. AMOUNT: up to $2,000,000 in compute; $10,000/month stipend. RESEARCH AREAS: (1) Long Horizon Dexterous Manipulation -- end-to-end models for complex multi-stage tasks with dexterous hands, natural language instruction following, memory across long task sequences, fine-grained physical control in unstructured environments; (2) Cross Embodiment Learning; (3) On Device Physical Intelligence; (4) Safe and Reliable Deployment. microagi's model is to deploy embodied intelligence into physical-world operations and turn what it learns there into compounding research. REFERRAL: $10,000 bonus for referring a candidate who is accepted into the cohort. No application deadline publicly stated as of June 2026 -- one cohort only, apply as soon as possible via https://www.microagi.ai/fellowship.
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Genres d'a cote · Brussels, Belgium (festival 29 October to 8 November 2026). Open internationally. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Screening at Brussels' queer film festival. Free via the festival's own submission form (FilmFreeway route may charge).
Pink Screens, Brussels' queer film festival run by Genres d'a cote, accepts international films completed 2024 or later that were not previously submitted. Submissions are free via the festival's own form on pinkscreens.org (the FilmFreeway route may charge). No exact deadline is published, but the call is in its late phase, so submit soon.
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Queer Screen · Sydney, Australia (festival February 2027). Open internationally. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Screening at one of the world's biggest queer film festivals, with audience awards. Modest FilmFreeway fees.
Queer Screen's Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney is one of the largest queer film festivals in the world. Submissions reopened in July 2026 via FilmFreeway; the final deadline is historically mid-October (around 15 October 2026, unconfirmed). Audience awards; modest submission fees.
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Fonds 21 · Netherlands. Dutch foundations, associations and non-profit BVs/NVs; projects must reach a broad and/or new audience in the Netherlands. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Minimum request EUR 10,000, no stated maximum; around EUR 11.5 million awarded per year across all pillars. No application fee.
Fonds 21 supports professional, high-quality art and culture projects by Dutch non-profit organizations (foundations, associations and non-profit BVs/NVs), across performing arts, visual arts, film, literature and interdisciplinary work, with additional pillars for arts education and youth & society. The minimum request is EUR 10,000 with no stated maximum, and roughly EUR 11.5 million is available annually. Applications are accepted year-round via the online portal (after a short eligibility snelcheck) and must be submitted at least four months before the project start date. Free-of-charge events are generally not supported; the fund expects most programming to be paid-access. No application fee.
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Het Cultuurfonds (formerly Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds) · Netherlands. National office plus provincial chapters; projects in culture, nature and science. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Typically EUR 15,000 to EUR 50,000 for national project applications by foundations and associations; smaller amounts via provincial chapters and themed funds (EUR 1,500 to EUR 25,000). Individual makers and collectives can request up to EUR 5,000. No application fee.
Het Cultuurfonds (formerly Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds) invests over EUR 40 million per year in culture and nature in the Netherlands. Foundations and associations can apply year-round for project grants (typically EUR 15,000 to EUR 50,000 at national level), and since 2025 individual makers and collectives can apply for up to EUR 5,000. Provincial chapters run their own quarterly rounds for regional projects, and numerous themed funds (EUR 5,000 to EUR 25,000) cover specific disciplines. Rolling intake via the online application portal. No application fee.
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VSBfonds · European Netherlands. Private legal entities (foundations, associations); applicants without a registered legal form are also eligible. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: No fixed minimum or maximum; the requested amount must be in proportion to other funding sources. No application fee.
VSBfonds supports cultural initiatives that make it possible for everyone in the Netherlands to take part in art and culture, spanning ten programme lines from professional performances to community arts. Applications are accepted year-round with no deadlines from foundations, associations and applicants without a formal legal form, and must be submitted at least four months before the initiative starts (two months for amateur arts). A two-minute online quickscan checks eligibility before the formal application. No fixed minimum or maximum amount; the request should be proportionate to other funding. No application fee.
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SIDN fonds · Netherlands. Open to natural persons and legal entities for the pioneer track; theme calls require legal entities. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Up to EUR 10,000 per pioneer project; theme calls (once or twice a year) fund larger projects above EUR 10,000. No application fee.
SIDN fonds (the foundation behind the .nl domain registry) invests in daring projects with societal added value that contribute to a strong internet and strong internet users. The Pioneers track is continuously open and awards up to EUR 10,000 to develop an innovative idea into a demo, pilot or experimental design; it is open to both individuals and legal entities. Larger projects are funded through theme calls issued once or twice a year (legal entities only). Projects must show innovation and public value and share their results openly; plain website or app building and purely B2B proposals are excluded. No application fee.
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Stichting DOEN · Netherlands-based fund (backed by the Dutch charity lotteries); themes have differing geographic focus areas. Legal entities only. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: No fixed amounts published; funding is tailored per initiative. No application fee.
Stichting DOEN, funded by the Dutch charity lotteries, supports pioneering initiatives within themes including the transformative power of imagination (art and culture), regenerative economy and solidarity economy. Applications are accepted year-round via the Mijn DOEN portal from legal entities only (no individuals) and must be received at least four months before the project starts; the assessment procedure takes about four months. Amateur art practice and standalone productions of films, books, CDs or websites are not supported. No application fee.
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Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie · Netherlands and the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom. Cultural institutions, vocational education institutions and interdisciplinary makers. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: EUR 5,000 to EUR 75,000 depending on the scheme (e.g. cultural education in mbo EUR 5,000-55,000, in vmbo/vso/pro EUR 10,000-65,000, design-based learning platforms up to EUR 75,000, interdisciplinary makers EUR 12,500-50,000). No application fee.
The Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, one of the Dutch national cultural funds (annual budget around EUR 30 million), currently has several schemes open for applications: cultural education in vocational education (mbo, EUR 5,000-55,000), cultural education in vmbo/vso/pro (EUR 10,000-65,000), cultural education for the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom (EUR 5,000-50,000), an open call for design-based learning platforms (up to EUR 75,000) and an interdisciplinary scheme for professional makers (EUR 12,500-50,000). Most schemes target cultural institutions, in some cases in partnership with schools. See the subsidies overview for per-scheme conditions. No application fee.
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Roosevelt Institute, in partnership with Data & Society · Remote. Travel may be requested for select convenings and for the culminating public event. US economic policy focus. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 3,000 stipend, plus travel and accommodation for the culminating event if needed. No application fee.
The Good Life Residents Program is a six-month Roosevelt Institute initiative that develops new leaders and elevates bold ideas across six economic policy priorities under its Good Life Agenda. Each topic area hosts a cohort of 3 to 4 residents plus 1 to 2 senior Topic Advisors (academics, policy leaders, organizers or government practitioners) who provide strategic and intellectual mentorship and moderate the closing event. Residents write a roughly 1,500-word original policy essay advancing a people-centered policy vision against a topic-specific prompt, take part in structured dialogue with peers, Topic Advisors and Roosevelt Think Tank directors, help prepare and appear at a culminating public event, contribute to press opportunities such as op-eds and reporter calls where applicable, and act as ambassadors for the Good Life Agenda in their professional and public networks. The current round, the AI and Finance Residents Program, is run in partnership with Data & Society and asks for bold ideas on how to shape, redirect, interrupt or make more visible and contestable the flows of capital into generative AI. Framing: breakneck investment in generative AI technology and infrastructure is distorting the stock market, profit measures, bond issuance, the pace and composition of growth, job creation and trade policy, with seven tech companies accounting for more than a third of S&P 500 market capitalisation and complex, sometimes circular financial arrangements obscuring risk. Suggested lines of inquiry include what government interventions could improve public oversight, risk allocation and direction-setting in private markets; how other investments could be coordinated and scaled if AI spending is crowding them out; what role public spending or new institutions could play in catalysing technology R&D designed to support workers, sustainability and supply chains; what democratic input mechanisms would keep state influence over capital flows less vulnerable to corruption; and how federal AI policy should address public hostility to data centre investments alongside national security and competitiveness. Compensation is USD 3,000 plus travel and accommodation for the culminating event. FLAG: Roosevelt does not publish an application deadline for the AI and Finance round on the programme page, and earlier rounds (Social Security financing, Federal Reserve powers, housing) each ran their own short application window. Check the Formstack application form linked from the programme page for the current closing date before applying.
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Luminos.AI · Remote · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 35 per hour, part-time. No application fee.
Luminos.AI, an embedded AI-governance and legal-risk infrastructure company (built by former Fortune 500 AI governance leads and company-builders), runs a part-time fellowship for a technically inclined law student or recent graduate who wants to work at the frontier of AI agent oversight and risk evaluation. Fellows work directly with senior lawyers and engineers on the practical problem of how to test, evaluate and govern generative and agentic AI systems that change every quarter. WHAT YOU DO: research and help design rigorous testing and evaluation approaches for generative and agentic AI, translating fast-moving legal and regulatory requirements into concrete, testable standards; track the global AI regulatory landscape in real time and turn it into practical guardrails; draft frameworks, workflows and risk assessments that hold up under real deployment conditions; and partner closely with the technical team, where comfort around code, models or data is an asset. Fellows with technical skills who want to spend part of their time working directly with engineering are encouraged to do so. WHO YOU ARE: currently pursuing a JD (or a recent graduate) from a top law program; an excellent researcher and writer comfortable applying existing law to genuinely new situations; genuinely enthusiastic about AI and willing to learn the technical details. Bonus: coding ability, ML/GenAI exposure, or a background in privacy, security or data governance law. TERMS: USD 35 per hour, remote, part-time, flexible 3 to 6 month term, with direct mentorship from senior legal and technical leadership. TO APPLY: send a cover letter, resume, transcript and writing sample to careers@luminos.ai with the subject line 'Application for Luminos.AI Fall 2026 Fellowship'. Rolling review with remote interviews.
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Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP), hosted by Hivos · Remote (worldwide) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Rapid-response grants of up to USD 5,000 (historically up to EUR 10,000) for costs that directly reduce the risk or impact of a digital attack, covering activities for a maximum of four months. No application fee.
The Digital Defenders Partnership runs the main rapid-response fund for digital threats against human rights defenders, journalists, activists and the organisations they work in. The Incident Response Fund covers urgent costs after or during a digital attack, including incident response and forensics, emergency infrastructure or hosting changes, secure devices, account recovery, legal or psychosocial support tied to the incident, and short-term relocation of digital operations. This is the practical counterpart to physical-safety emergency funds for anyone whose work makes them a target online. ELIGIBILITY: human rights defenders, journalists, activists and civil-society organisations facing digital threats or attacks, worldwide. Applications are rolling; DDP aims to respond within two weeks and funds activities for up to four months. DDP also runs a Sustainable Protection Fund for longer-term digital-security capacity building (currently invitation-only in some regions) and an invitation-only Community and Network Fund of up to EUR 15,000 for rapid responders and digital-security facilitators. Contact team@digitaldefenders.org or apply through apply.grants.digitaldefenders.org.
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Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK) · Amsterdam and surrounding municipalities: Zaanstad, Oostzaan, Landsmeer, Waterland, Haarlemmermeer, Amstelveen, Ouder-Amstel and Diemen. Region-restricted. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Project grants across four categories, from small awards up to substantial project budgets. Requests up to EUR 7,500 in categories 1 and 2 are scheduled by monthly draw (loting) rather than a queue. No application fee.
AFK is the City of Amsterdam's arts fund and the main route to project money for artists and organisations working in the city, and it was the significant gap in this desk's Dutch coverage. The Projectsubsidies 2026-2028 scheme funds art and culture projects across disciplines, split into four categories by scale and applicant type; requests up to EUR 7,500 in categories 1 and 2 are assigned to an assessment round by monthly draw, with published loting and gesprek dates. ELIGIBILITY: you must live or work in the municipality of Amsterdam or in Zaanstad, Oostzaan, Landsmeer, Waterland, Haarlemmermeer, Amstelveen, Ouder-Amstel or Diemen. Both individual makers and organisations can apply depending on category. NOTE: AFK periodically closes individual categories when demand outruns budget (categories 3 and 4 for professional art were temporarily shut in May 2026 and reopened on 1 July 2026), so check which categories are open before you start. Applications are in Dutch through the AFK portal. Phone 020 520 0520, weekdays 09:30-12:30 and 13:30-16:00.
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Rest of World, underwritten by the Ford Foundation · Remote. Reporting from anywhere in the world except India; writers based in India are not eligible for this series. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 1,000 per commissioned story of 800 to 1,000 words. No application fee.
Rest of World is in the third year of its Labor x Tech program, underwritten by the Ford Foundation, commissioning reported stories on the changing nature of work at a moment of upheaval: AI tools and robotics reshaping professions at every rung of society, from self-driving cars replacing drivers to humanoid robots working alongside nurses; lay-offs across the tech industry; and the gig work model continuing to reshape traditional employment. The programme's premise is that this moment needs documenting now, in stories that help prepare society for what comes next. WHAT THEY COMMISSION: reported stories of 800 to 1,000 words from around the world on this beat, at a fee of USD 1,000 per story. WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR, based on previous years: how new technology is transforming existing industries in unique ways and creating unexpected new pockets of employment; how technology is leading to significant job gain, job loss, and government responses to those trends; whether large demographic shifts are following the adoption of new technology or the arrival of new industries; how workplace technology is changing workplace dynamics; how new industries and tools are changing workers' incomes; and the expansion of the gig work model alongside the threats of automation. EXAMPLES of the kind of story they hope to commission, all previously published by Rest of World: workers in Chinese data factories teaching humanoid robots boring tasks; entry-level tech workers describing the AI-fuelled jobpocalypse; Microsoft and Google claiming their data centres create thousands of jobs while their permit filings say otherwise; AI helping judges close cases quickly and lawyers open them quickly; tech workers fuelling a mini baby boom in Taiwan's Silicon Valley; Dubai's robotaxi ambitions coming for human drivers; and the job brokers who run the lives of the migrant workers staffing Taiwan's chip plants. ELIGIBILITY NOTE: the programme is unable to commission reporting in India or from writers based in India for this series. HOW TO PITCH: send 2 to 3 paragraphs laying out the nutgraf of the proposal and explaining how the pitch fits the editorial mission of the programme. Indicate what sources will be used, whether any pre-reporting has been completed, what reporting has already been done on the topic at other outlets, and what the story contributes to the discourse. Pitches go to laborxtech@restofworld.org. Pitching is open on a rolling basis; no closing date is stated.
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ILIAD · In person at LISA in London, UK, and in Berkeley, California, USA. Five days a week, 10am to 6pm. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: No tuition. USD 5,000 travel and housing allowance per participant, plus office space at the venue and lunch and dinner five days a week. Cohorts of 15 to 30 participants. Participants arrange and pay for their own travel and accommodation out of the allowance.
The ILIAD Intensive is a four-week, full-time, in-person program for mathematically strong researchers interested in foundational AI alignment, running in London (at LISA) and in Berkeley. It runs five days a week, 10am to 6pm, in cohorts of 15 to 30 participants. CURRICULUM, across five clusters: Alignment (decomposing the alignment problem, pretraining, post-training and deployment, reward learning); Learning (deep learning theory, singular learning theory, training dynamics); Abstractions, Representations and Interpretability (mechanistic interpretability, natural latents); Agency (reinforcement learning, decision theory, agent foundations); and Safety Guarantees (debate, steganography, the limits of interpretability). MONEY: no tuition is charged. Each participant receives a USD 5,000 travel and housing allowance, office space at the venue, and lunch and dinner five days a week. Participants book and pay for their own travel and accommodation out of the allowance. ELIGIBILITY: a strong mathematical background, typically graduate-level study or a completed degree in mathematics, physics or theoretical computer science, though mathematical maturity is weighted more heavily than specific credentials. Research experience, general competence and motivation are also assessed. Prior machine learning or alignment experience is not required. DEADLINE: no fixed closing date is published. A single application covers several upcoming programs and applicants indicate their preferred dates and locations; applications are being accepted for the October 2026 and November 2026 cohorts. HOW TO APPLY: through the application portal at iliad.ac/apply. Questions to contact@iliad.ac.
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apexart · Exhibitions in apexart's New York City space (October call) or anywhere in the world except NYC (February call). Anyone, from anywhere, can submit. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 10,000 per selected exhibition: USD 8,000 for expenses (curator travel, artwork shipping, artist and participant honorariums, equipment, installation) plus an honorarium of up to USD 2,000 for the curator/organizer. For exhibitions outside NYC, apexart matches up to USD 1,000 for venue rental if needed. apexart additionally covers insurance, advertising, publicity, brochure design/printing/mailing, the opening reception and (for NYC) documentation, and handles most logistics. No application fee.
apexart's Open Calls turn a curatorial idea into a funded apexart exhibition, selected by a crowdsourced international jury of more than 600 people in 70 countries. WHO CAN SUBMIT: anyone, from anywhere, with no fees at any level: trained and student curators, artists, writers and creative people regardless of experience, background or location. HOW: a 500-word proposal for a focused, idea-driven, original group exhibition, submitted through the online form during the proposal window. TWO ANNUAL WINDOWS: every October for exhibitions in apexart's NYC space, and every February (to early March) for exhibitions taking place anywhere in the world except NYC; for the international call you must propose a location you have actually visited, with the specific venue settled after selection. SELECTION: jurors vote anonymously online (each proposal gets an equal number of views, submitter names hidden); proposals are judged on the strength of the idea and how well it is communicated, not on connections or CV. WHAT WINNERS GET: a USD 10,000 budget (USD 8,000 for expenses, up to USD 2,000 curator honorarium, plus up to USD 1,000 venue-rental match outside NYC), with apexart covering insurance, publicity, the printed brochure, the opening reception and most logistics including loan agreements and shipping, and staff working closely with the guest curator. Winning proposals become part of apexart's next exhibition season. Check the site for the current window's exact dates; submission forms only go live during the proposal periods.
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Anthropic (with Constellation as recruiting partner) · San Francisco, London, or Ontario, with remote-friendly options; applicants must hold work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada (no visa sponsorship). Shared workspaces available in Berkeley and London. · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 3,850 / GBP 2,310 / CAD 4,300 per week for four months of full-time research, plus roughly USD 15,000 per month in compute funding and other research expenses. No application fee.
The Anthropic Fellows Program is a four-month, fully funded research fellowship with direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers. Fellows work on empirical projects aligned with Anthropic's research priorities using external infrastructure, aiming to produce public outputs such as papers. Five workstreams: AI Safety, AI Security, ML Systems and Performance, Reinforcement Learning, and Economics and Policy; safety topics include scalable oversight, adversarial robustness, mechanistic interpretability, and model organisms. FUNDING: a weekly stipend of USD 3,850 (GBP 2,310 / CAD 4,300), around USD 15,000 per month in compute funding, and other research expenses. ELIGIBILITY: fluent Python; available full-time for four months; strong technical background in computer science, mathematics, or physics; work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada (no visa sponsorship). Locations: San Francisco, London, Ontario, or remote within those countries. APPLICATION: rolling, via the Constellation portal; the process includes an initial application, reference checks, technical assessments, interviews, and a research discussion. The next cohort is expected to start in January 2027, so apply well before the end of 2026.
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BlueDot Impact · Remote / worldwide · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Up to USD 10,000 per grant (larger amounts negotiable); money is typically wired upfront rather than reimbursed
BlueDot Impact runs a rolling micro-grants program for people working on concrete AI safety projects where money is the bottleneck. Grants of up to USD 10,000 (more negotiable on request) cover compute and API credits, events and meetups, research access, travel, community chapters and project tooling. The process is deliberately fast: average reply within a day, and nine in ten applicants hear back within a week, with funds typically wired upfront rather than reimbursed. Open to anyone worldwide working on a concrete AI safety project; BlueDot course alumni and active members of the AI safety and biosecurity communities are prioritized. Rolling applications, no deadline.
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Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) · London, UK / remote worldwide · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Grants range from roughly USD 1,300 to over USD 250,000 depending on the project; recent grants span USD 5,000 to 39,000
The Center on Long-Term Risk makes rolling grants for research that reduces long-term risks and suffering risks (s-risks) from transformative AI, including AI safety, macrostrategy, cooperative AI and decision theory work. Recipients may be individuals, charitable organizations or academic institutions; funded formats include independent research, academic scholarships and tuition, teaching buyouts and career development for promising researchers. Grant sizes vary widely, from around USD 1,300 to historical grants over USD 250,000, and decisions are made by a simple majority of the three fund managers with external experts consulted as needed. The fund is flexible on project type if it believes you can do high-quality work relevant to s-risks now or in the future. Rolling applications via the online form.
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Institute for Progress (IFP) · Remote / worldwide (IFP is based in Washington, DC) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 10,000 honorarium per published project plan; USD 1,000 bounties for successful referrals and published new ideas
The Institute for Progress pays authors to develop short pitches (200-400 words) into full published project plans for preparing the world for advanced AI, across three areas: accelerating science, strengthening security, and adapting institutions. Authors of selected proposals receive a USD 10,000 honorarium once the full plan is published, plus IFP advisory support, funder matchmaking and help recruiting project leads; USD 1,000 bounties go to successful referrals and published new ideas. Applicants who want to build their own proposal are welcome. Rolling submissions with no deadline; early submissions are prioritized.
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MAGIC Grants (Monero Fund) · Remote / international · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: USD 5,000-20,000 equivalent per grant
MAGIC Grants, a US 501(c)(3), funds applied privacy-technology research and development through its Monero Fund: cryptographic security proofs, membership proofs, privacy, UX and efficiency improvements, audits, and infrastructure in and around the Monero ecosystem. Grants run USD 5,000-20,000 equivalent and are open to all competent researchers regardless of educational attainment, as individuals or teams, internationally (standard US nonprofit due-diligence and sanctions screening applies). One of the few rolling, individual-friendly privacy-tech research funds; decisions typically arrive within three weeks.
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FUTO · Remote / worldwide (US-based funder) · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Microgrants USD 1,000-5,000 for individuals and early-stage projects; larger grants for established projects (over USD 5 million distributed across 20 projects to date, including Signal and Tor)
FUTO funds open-source software that challenges the tech oligopoly: privacy tools, secure messaging, alternative operating systems, developer and creative tools. Microgrants of USD 1,000-5,000 support individuals and early-stage projects, while larger grants go to established open-source projects and nonprofits; FUTO has distributed over USD 5 million across 20 projects to date, including Signal and Tor. Applications are genuinely open and rolling (via grantapps@futo.org), with no stated geographic restrictions. Squarely in the NLnet / Prototype Fund tradition of anti-monopoly FOSS funding.
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Halcyon Futures · Remote / worldwide · Deadline: Rolling / undated · Award: Nonprofit seed grants up to USD 1,000,000; career transition grants up to USD 500,000
Halcyon Futures makes fast grants to exceptional people founding new organizations in AI safety and alignment, biosecurity, cybersecurity and AI governance/policy. Nonprofit seed grants run up to USD 1,000,000 to get new projects off the ground, and career transition grants up to USD 500,000 support leaders at career inflection points searching out their next big project; the org states it often wires money within days. Grantees also get mentorship, introductions and founder community events. (Halcyon also runs a separate venture capital arm; the grant tracks are non-dilutive.) Rolling; contact via the Request for Founders link or hello@halcyonfutures.org.
