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NAME:The Grant Desk - Tech & Infrastructure\, EU
X-WR-CALNAME:The Grant Desk - Tech & Infrastructure\, EU deadlines
X-WR-CALDESC:Paid open calls\, fellowships and residencies in AI\, tech\, r
 esearch\, and digital and mixed-media arts\, sorted into the right pile. U
 pdated as new calls land on the desk. Filtered to: Tech & Infrastructure\,
  EU.
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UID:ngi-fediversity-11@artificialnouveau.github.io
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260602
SUMMARY:Deadline: NGI Fediversity (11th call)
DESCRIPTION:Small to medium-sized R&D grants for projects making federated 
 and self-hosted internet services easier to deploy and operate at scale. F
 unds practical work on portable Fediverse-style infrastructure\, hosted Ma
 stodon-like or PeerTube-like services\, secure email\, private cloud and o
 ther tools that support decentralisation and digital self-determination. O
 pen to individuals and organisations of any type\; results released under 
 free or open-source licences. Deadline 1 June 2026\, 12:00 CEST.\n\nOrgani
 sation: NLnet / NGI Fediversity (funded by EU Horizon Europe)\nLocation: W
 orldwide\nAward: €5\,000 to €50\,000 per project\nDuration: Project-ba
 sed\n\nMore: https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/
URL:https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/
LOCATION:Worldwide
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UID:ngi-fediversity-11@artificialnouveau.github.io
DTSTAMP:20260428T124520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260602
SUMMARY:Deadline: NGI Fediversity (11th call): Hosting Stack of the Future
DESCRIPTION:Small to medium-sized R&D grants for projects that strengthen F
 ediversity\, an effort to bring easy-to-use hosted cloud services with ser
 vice portability and personal freedom at their core to everyone. Built on 
 NixOS for declarative\, reproducible\, reliable deployment of Fediverse se
 rvices (PeerTube\, Mastodon\, Owncast\, Lemmy)\, email\, VPN\, private clo
 ud storage\, wikis and more. Project results released under open source li
 cences. Deadline 1 June 2026\, 12:00 CEST.\n\nOrganisation: NLnet / NGI Fe
 diversity (funded by EU Horizon Europe)\nLocation: Worldwide\nAward: €5\
 ,000 to €50\,000 per project (€450\,000 total budget for open calls)\n
 Duration: Project-based (programme runs to November 2027)\n\nMore: https:/
 /nlnet.nl/fediversity/
URL:https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/
LOCATION:Worldwide
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UID:ngi-taler-13@artificialnouveau.github.io
DTSTAMP:20260428T124520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260602
SUMMARY:Deadline: NGI TALER (13th call): Privacy-Preserving Digital Payment
 s
DESCRIPTION:Small to medium-sized R&D grants for free and open source effor
 ts aligned with privacy-preserving digital payments. Build new GNU Taler c
 apabilities\, auxiliary tools\, UX\, FOSS-app and open-standard integratio
 ns (P2P micropayments in messengers\, social media\, video conferencing)\,
  or merchant-backend improvements. All results released under a free or op
 en-source licence. Strong projects can scale up via NGI0 Core. Deadline 1 
 June 2026\, 12:00 CEST.\n\nOrganisation: NLnet / NGI TALER (with GNU Taler
  community\, funded by EU Horizon Europe and Swiss SERI)\nLocation: Worldw
 ide\nAward: €5\,000 to €50\,000 per project (€676\,000 total budget 
 for open calls)\nDuration: Project-based (programme runs to November 2026)
 \n\nMore: https://nlnet.nl/taler/
URL:https://nlnet.nl/taler/
LOCATION:Worldwide
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UID:ngi-zero-commons-fund-13@artificialnouveau.github.io
DTSTAMP:20260428T124520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260602
SUMMARY:Deadline: NGI Zero Commons Fund (13th call)
DESCRIPTION:Small to medium-sized R&D grants to help reclaim the public nat
 ure of the internet across the full technology spectrum: libre silicon\, m
 iddleware\, P2P infrastructure\, end-user applications\, open standards\, 
 open data and AI\, open science\, creative commons and open educational re
 sources. Project results released under free or open-source licences. Aime
 d at troubleshooters tackling hard\, important internet-commons challenges
 . Total programme: €21.6m through 2027. Deadline 1 June 2026\, 12:00 CES
 T.\n\nOrganisation: NLnet / NGI Zero (funded by EU Horizon Europe and Swis
 s SERI)\nLocation: Worldwide\nAward: €5\,000 to €50\,000 per project (
 scalable for proven potential)\nDuration: Project-based\n\nMore: https://n
 lnet.nl/commonsfund/
URL:https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/
LOCATION:Worldwide
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