The Grant Desk - Tech & Infrastructure, EU https://www.artificialnouveau.com/smalltools/grants/ Paid open calls, fellowships and residencies in AI, tech, research, and digital and mixed-media arts, sorted into the right pile. Updated as new calls land on the desk. Filtered to: Tech & Infrastructure, EU. en 360 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:45:20 +0000 NGI Fediversity (11th call) - €5,000 to €50,000 per project - deadline 01 Jun 2026 https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/ ngi-fediversity-11 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 EU grant tech open-source internet fediverse decentralisation NLnet / NGI Fediversity (funded by EU Horizon Europe)

Location: Worldwide

Award: €5,000 to €50,000 per project

Duration: Project-based

Deadline: 01 Jun 2026

Small to medium-sized R&D grants for projects making federated and self-hosted internet services easier to deploy and operate at scale. Funds practical work on portable Fediverse-style infrastructure, hosted Mastodon-like or PeerTube-like services, secure email, private cloud and other tools that support decentralisation and digital self-determination. Open to individuals and organisations of any type; results released under free or open-source licences. Deadline 1 June 2026, 12:00 CEST.

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]]> NGI Fediversity (11th call): Hosting Stack of the Future - €5,000 to €50,000 per project (€450,000 total budget for open calls) - deadline 01 Jun 2026 https://nlnet.nl/fediversity/ ngi-fediversity-11 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 EU grant tech open-source fediverse hosting NLnet / NGI Fediversity (funded by EU Horizon Europe)

Location: Worldwide

Award: €5,000 to €50,000 per project (€450,000 total budget for open calls)

Duration: Project-based (programme runs to November 2027)

Deadline: 01 Jun 2026

Small to medium-sized R&D grants for projects that strengthen Fediversity, an effort to bring easy-to-use hosted cloud services with service portability and personal freedom at their core to everyone. Built on NixOS for declarative, reproducible, reliable deployment of Fediverse services (PeerTube, Mastodon, Owncast, Lemmy), email, VPN, private cloud storage, wikis and more. Project results released under open source licences. Deadline 1 June 2026, 12:00 CEST.

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]]> NGI TALER (13th call): Privacy-Preserving Digital Payments - €5,000 to €50,000 per project (€676,000 total budget for open calls) - deadline 01 Jun 2026 https://nlnet.nl/taler/ ngi-taler-13 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 EU grant tech open-source privacy payments NLnet / NGI TALER (with GNU Taler community, funded by EU Horizon Europe and Swiss SERI)

Location: Worldwide

Award: €5,000 to €50,000 per project (€676,000 total budget for open calls)

Duration: Project-based (programme runs to November 2026)

Deadline: 01 Jun 2026

Small to medium-sized R&D grants for free and open source efforts aligned with privacy-preserving digital payments. Build new GNU Taler capabilities, auxiliary tools, UX, FOSS-app and open-standard integrations (P2P micropayments in messengers, social media, video conferencing), or merchant-backend improvements. All results released under a free or open-source licence. Strong projects can scale up via NGI0 Core. Deadline 1 June 2026, 12:00 CEST.

Open call details

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]]> NGI Zero Commons Fund (13th call) - €5,000 to €50,000 per project (scalable for proven potential) - deadline 01 Jun 2026 https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/ ngi-zero-commons-fund-13 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 EU grant tech open-source internet NLnet / NGI Zero (funded by EU Horizon Europe and Swiss SERI)

Location: Worldwide

Award: €5,000 to €50,000 per project (scalable for proven potential)

Duration: Project-based

Deadline: 01 Jun 2026

Small to medium-sized R&D grants to help reclaim the public nature of the internet across the full technology spectrum: libre silicon, middleware, P2P infrastructure, end-user applications, open standards, open data and AI, open science, creative commons and open educational resources. Project results released under free or open-source licences. Aimed at troubleshooters tackling hard, important internet-commons challenges. Total programme: €21.6m through 2027. Deadline 1 June 2026, 12:00 CEST.

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