Currently 6 active paid grants, fellowships and residencies taking place in India, across AI, arts, film, journalism, research, tech and cross-disciplinary practice. Many are open to applicants of any nationality; check each entry for residency and citizenship requirements. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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A funded research residency (3rd edition of the Visiting Curatorial Research Fellowship) for mid-career cultural producers from India: artists, scholars, writers/editors and curators pursuing humanities-driven research in the V&A's global photography and visual-culture collections in London. The awardee is announced in February 2027 and the fellowship starts April 2027. SUPPORT: GBP 1,600 per month, GBP 800 towards return airfare (CWIT) and visa costs covered. ELIGIBILITY: Indian citizens domiciled in India, aged 25 to 45, mid-career. APPLY by email to alkazifoundation01@gmail.com with subject 'Curatorial Research Fellowship 2027'. DEADLINE: 7 November 2026.
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.
BlueDot Impact's rolling Rapid Grants fund people taking a promising next step in AI safety or biosecurity where money is the bottleneck. Grants of up to USD 20,000 cover time and living costs, research access, compute and tools, testing an idea, meetups, venues and community events, and conference, collaboration and fieldwork travel. The application takes about 15 minutes (plan and budget), and accepted grants are paid as a single lump sum through a claims portal. ELIGIBILITY: open to anyone, though BlueDot course participants, alumni, facilitators and active members of the AI safety and biosecurity community are more likely to be funded. Funds cannot go to Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Congo Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, India, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Russia, Venezuela and Yemen. Requests above USD 20,000 belong in BlueDot's Career Transition Grants (individuals) or Seed Grants (new projects). Rolling applications, no deadline.
Production fund run by Kolkata gallery Experimenter with a cooperative of artists and supporters, juried by a rotating panel of artists and curators. It explicitly supports film, video, sound, digital and new media art, artistic research, installation, performance and public art among other practices. GRANT: up to INR 1.5 lakhs (INR 150,000) toward realising a project, one bursary per artist per year, disbursed within 30 days of selection. ELIGIBILITY: open to all visual artists worldwide, individuals or collectives, no age, nationality or medium restrictions; applications preferred in English but vernacular and foreign languages accepted. ROLLING: applications may be submitted at any time and are reviewed when the next round is announced. Apply via the Google Form linked from the Generator page; contact generator@experimenter.in.
Fellowship grants for a defined period of full-time work transitioning into AI safety or biosecurity: research, policy or technical output, building evidence, testing an uncertain career path, closing a skill gap, or moving into a role. Grantees also get structured advising, introductions and a peer community. BlueDot has taken over Coefficient Giving's former career development and transition funding. ELIGIBILITY: ready to work full-time on the transition (not alongside a job); evidence of recent relevant action (strong analogous work counts); a plausible plan with milestones and a theory of change linked to reducing catastrophic risk from advanced AI or biological threats. No prior BlueDot course needed. Master's and PhD programmes are generally not funded. PROCESS: a roughly 45-minute form, then routing, evidence review, interview and decision; grantees send weekly updates and a short end-of-grant report.
BlueDot Impact's Seed Grants fund the first 6 to 12 months of a new AI safety or biosecurity project or organisation, covering founders' living costs, compute, tools and running costs, and travel. WHAT YOU GET: USD 20,000 to 200,000 (smaller requests go to Rapid Grants). ELIGIBILITY: anyone can apply; no BlueDot course is needed and the project does not have to match BlueDot's stated missions. Solo founders are welcome. Grants are currently paid to individual founders; if the money needs to go to an organisation, say so in the application. For-profits are considered in some cases where the work clearly serves the public good. Funds cannot go to Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Congo Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, India, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Russia, Venezuela and Yemen. PROCESS: the form takes about 45 minutes (choose 'Starting an organization'); BlueDot aims to decide within about four weeks. Grantees send short monthly updates and a final report, and return unspent funds if they stop. Rolling, no deadline.