Currently 52 active paid research and journalism grants, fellowships and residencies. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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NetHope, the consortium of more than 60 humanitarian, development and conservation organizations working with over 70 technology companies, is piloting a short-term Humanitarian AI Research Fellowship to grow the pool of researchers and practitioners who understand how AI can responsibly advance humanitarian work, producing findings its member organizations can put to immediate practical use. Two parallel streams: Stream 1, AI Adoption and Governance (case studies of how humanitarian and nonprofit organizations adopt, govern and manage risk around AI tools; suited to backgrounds in policy, program evaluation or humanitarian systems) and Stream 2, AI Systems and Localization (evaluating open-source and open-weight models for humanitarian use, local versus proprietary systems, low-connectivity deployment, fine-tuning prompt and dataset libraries; suited to computer science, machine learning or applied data science backgrounds, with model evaluation or red-teaming experience a plus). ELIGIBILITY: mid-career to seasoned practitioners with strong writing and analytical skills, internationally open; fellows must pass an OFAC screening. NetHope owns all research outputs and IP; fellows are credited as named authors. HOW TO APPLY: CV, letter of interest answering three set questions, 2-3 references, optional writing sample, via NetHope's online form. NetHope may review applications and select fellows before the closing date, so apply early. DEADLINE: 9 October 2026.
The Open Data Institute, the London non-profit founded by Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, is hiring a Researcher (AI and quantitative) in its Research and Development team. The role focuses on data-centric AI: benchmark creation and model evaluation, and improving the AI readiness of existing and emerging data infrastructures. DAY TO DAY: running rigorous experiments to evaluate model performance across technical metrics; leading work packages covering corpus construction, ground-truth curation, task design, evaluation harnesses, statistical analysis and benchmarking reproducibility; assessing public sector and government datasets for AI-readiness using ODI frameworks; authoring peer-reviewed papers, technical annexes, reproducible code repositories, blog posts and policy briefings; plus desk reviews, literature reviews, stakeholder mapping, surveys and interviews on data, AI and technology topics. WHO THEY WANT: practical experience in data-centric AI methodologies including benchmark building and dataset quality assurance; deep applied knowledge of LLMs, RAG and agentic frameworks; experience with evaluation protocols, harness design and comparative benchmarking across major open and closed-source model families; proficiency in statistical modelling and ML workflows; mixed qualitative and quantitative research skills; understanding of open science and FAIR principles and of GDPR implications for research. Desirable: a track record of commissioned research or policy briefings for tech organisations, government bodies or foundations, and knowledge of current debates in the data and open culture movements, including the collection and use of data by AI systems. TO APPLY: upload a CV, a cover letter, and work samples including links (GitHub, Hugging Face) to previous AI projects relevant to the position. Closing date Friday 9 October 2026. Questions to jobs@theodi.org.
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.
The Institute for Law & AI's Winter Research Fellowship (EU Law) is a 10-week full-time paid research fellowship for lawyers who want to deepen their understanding of AI and law and contribute to the field, with close support and mentorship from LawAI staff. Previous Seasonal Research Fellows have gone on to legal and policy roles in the European AI Office, leading AI companies, academia and think tanks, including LawAI itself. FUNDING: a GBP 1,000 weekly stipend plus a GBP 7,000 relocation and housing payment; fellows work from LawAI's Cambridge, UK office, with remote candidates considered in exceptional circumstances. ELIGIBILITY: open to graduate law students, professionals and academics with diverse skill sets, experience levels and degrees of knowledge in AI law and policy. Fellowship runs 1 February to 9 April 2027. Applications are considered on a rolling basis as received, so apply early. DEADLINE: 12 October 2026.
Rhizome and Hartwig Art Foundation are appointing a part-time Amsterdam City Fellow to build community connections and strengthen engagement with digital art and creative technology practices in the region. The City Fellowship is a new Rhizome initiative that embeds researchers and writers in institutions and cities around the world; the inaugural edition started in July 2026 in Bangalore. THE WORK: research and connect with digital art communities and practitioners in Amsterdam, participate in ongoing collaborative research, write a monthly newsletter, conduct interviews, and more. The fellow should also plan to attend Extreme Presence, a gathering on technology, consciousness and devotion in Amsterdam, 23 to 25 October 2026 (tickets provided). PARTNER: Hartwig Art Foundation fosters the production, presentation, communication and preservation of contemporary art and is currently developing the Hartwig Museum, a major new contemporary art museum in Amsterdam scheduled to open in 2028. TERMS: fellows must be based in Amsterdam; EUR 1,200 per month stipend at roughly 2 days per week, working remotely with optional use of the foundation's offices. DEADLINE: 12 October 2026, 12:00 CEST.
ANAT's flagship Synapse program embeds an Australian artist in an Australian research organisation for 16 weeks of self-guided creative research with no required outcome; one residency is on offer in 2027. The artist identifies their own host and submits a joint application led by the artist, so hosts can span any science or technology field, from medical research institutes and digital health labs to engineering and environmental science; Synapse has a long history of art-science pairings across disciplines. WHAT YOU GET: a total artist fee of AUD 19,250 ex GST plus 12% superannuation, and up to AUD 3,500 toward other project expenses. ELIGIBILITY: Australian citizens or permanent residents based in Australia; tertiary students including PhD candidates are ineligible, as are past Synapse recipients within 10 years; the fee covers one artist, artist groups are ineligible. ASSESSMENT: by an independent art-science panel, with notification in late November 2026. DEADLINE: 14 October 2026 at 3 pm ACDT. Residency takes place between February and October 2027.
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.).
The Tilting Axis Fellowship 2027 supports researchers, designers, writers, curators and cultural producers based in the Caribbean region, led by Nieuwe Instituut with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Fresh Milk (Barbados), RAA! (Aruba) and Instituto Buena Bista (Curacao). Formal degrees are not required; the program prioritises creativity, critical thinking and strong potential over credentials. FUNDING: a EUR 2,500 stipend per fellow, up to EUR 1,000 additional travel budget for research-related movement within or beyond the Caribbean, and full coverage of airfare and programming for the Netherlands visit. PROGRAM: six weeks in April-May 2027 with weekly check-ins and a self-defined project milestone, including a 10-day visit to the Netherlands with five days of tailored cultural programming, site visits and meetings with artists and institutions. ELIGIBILITY: residents of designated Caribbean territories (including Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago and others); diaspora members based elsewhere are not eligible. APPLY: proposals by email to ta-fellowship@nieuweinstituut.nl. DEADLINE: 15 October 2026.
Residential think-tank fellowships at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, explicitly open to artists as well as academics (affiliated or independent), emeritus professors and professionals outside academia. Fellows spend 3 to 8 months pursuing self-directed work in any domain, provided it needs no laboratory or experimental infrastructure and is not predominantly applied; selection weighs the CV at 40 percent and the innovativeness of the proposal at 60 percent. WHAT YOU GET: travel, travel and health insurance, a monthly stipend and a partial housing subsidy, with fellow status continuing after the stay. ELIGIBILITY: open internationally; past GIAS fellows must wait five years. Applications via the MyGulbenkian platform with CV, a short description of proposed activities and two referee names. DEADLINE: the annual window runs 1 July to 15 October; this round closes 15 October 2026 for 2027/28 stays.
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.
Tate, in collaboration with Delfina Foundation, invites applications for the thirteenth Brooks International Fellowship Programme: two 6-month fellowships in 2027 for international researchers based outside the UK, hosted in the Tate Britain Curatorial Division and complemented by activities and residency life at Delfina Foundation. FELLOWSHIP 1, Leonora Carrington: Art and the Theatre of Life: foundational research into the British-Mexican artist's interest in theatre, performance and performativity, locating, analysing and contextualising theatrical materials across archives, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and ephemera, and situating them within Carrington's transnational career; a Fellow with knowledge of the Mexican social-political context, culture and performance histories of the second half of the twentieth century is particularly well placed. FELLOWSHIP 2, Artist Supported Studios: contributing to research and development of the 2028 Tate Britain Commission through the lens of artists who work with supported studios (organisations enabling disabled and neurodivergent artists to develop sustained professional practices), exploring how galleries, commissioned artists and supported studios can develop different forms of communication and ways of working through the commissioning process, how collaborative practices can be documented and interpreted while remaining attentive to artistic agency, and how the research can shape future institutional practice. Fellows live at Delfina Foundation with a desk in their room plus hot-desking, work at Tate Britain, collaborate across Tate sites, get access to Tate's collection, archive, staff and networks, and present their practice at Tate and Delfina events. APPLICATION: download and return the Word application form from the Tate jobs page (only returned Word forms are accepted; nothing is filled in online). DEADLINE: Wednesday 21 October 2026, 17:00 GMT.
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.
HIAP's Learning Materials international residency hosts artists at HIAP Suomenlinna, the island fortress off Helsinki, for 90 days in Spring 2027 (12 April to 11 July) or Autumn 2027 (16 August to 14 November). The call suits artists with established material-based practices, socially engaged practitioners and researchers exploring ecology and materials; the residency is research-focused with no required output. DISCIPLINES: digital, visual arts, interdisciplinary and research practices. WHAT YOU GET: a working grant of EUR 1,350 per month (EUR 4,050 in total) via Kone Foundation, a material budget up to EUR 750, an access budget up to EUR 1,000, one return trip from the artist's home with slow travel encouraged and help with travel arrangements, plus accommodation and workspace. ELIGIBILITY: international artists and arts practitioners living and working outside Finland. Collectives may apply, but the working grant can be paid to one individual only and there are no extra residency fees or additional travel budget. APPLICATION: free, via the online form on the HIAP website. DEADLINE: 26 October 2026, 15:00 UTC.
The 7th call of the Art Explora residency programme at the Cité internationale des arts opened 21 September 2026. The programme supports projects exploring the crossovers of art with science, technology and ecology, which makes it one of the stronger art-science fits in Europe. Residents receive a furnished live-work studio of around 50 m2 in Paris, EUR 1,000 per month living stipend, up to EUR 3,000 production budget, round-trip travel and mentoring, with residencies of 3 or 6 months for solo artists and 3 months for duos of an artist with a researcher, curator or writer. Open to visual, performing and digital artists of all nationalities and ages with at least 5 years of professional experience and an international exhibition record. Programme details at artexplora.org. TO APPLY: submit via the Art Explora application platform. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026, 11:59 PM Paris time.
Finland's largest private foundation moves to a single joint application round in 2026: the central fund and all 17 regional funds accept applications together from 15 to 30 October. It funds all fields of art and science, with one-year and multi-year working grants as the cornerstone alongside project grants for individuals, working groups and organisations. SCALE: around EUR 49 million awarded annually across roughly 2,100 grants (about 20,600 applications in 2025, including 165 multi-year grants); recent October rounds averaged over 450 grants of one or more years, and working grants can extend up to four years. ELIGIBILITY: Finnish nationals and people or organisations residing or working in Finland; other applicants qualify if the application demonstrates clear, strong ties to Finland or Finnish culture. HOW: apply online during the window via the foundation's grant service. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026.
Cultivamos Cultura in Sao Luis (Odemira, Portugal) hosts the Bom Dia residency as part of the European OASis project: one proposal is selected for a 7-to-30-day residency during March 2027. Residents engage with the local community (artist talks, walks, workshops, open studios) and must produce an output for the OASis group exhibition in 2027; one output is added to Cultivamos Cultura's collection, and documentation is shared across OASis partner channels. WHO: international creators, artists and researchers from various fields and disciplines, including practitioners working at the intersection of culture and other disciplines; individuals or groups of up to two people (conditions and funding are the same for a pair as for one individual); selected residents must be physically present for the approved timeline and reasonably autonomous in producing the project. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 1,300 project fee, travel budget up to EUR 500, production and material expenses up to EUR 1,600 (approved by Cultivamos Cultura before purchase, paid against an invoice), equitable food per diem, accommodation in a private room in a shared farmhouse on the Cultivamos Cultura property with shared kitchen, a workspace or studio, and free access to all spaces and resources. APPLICATION: via Google Form; the call runs 18 September to 30 October 2026, 18:00 CET, but closes early once 100 applications are received, so apply promptly. Results announced in the third week of December 2026; no individual feedback. Full details at cultivamoscultura.com.
The AI Philosophy Competition, organised by philosophers Zachary Goodsell and Elliott Thornley and funded by Forethought Research, aims to gauge the philosophical capabilities of AI in a way transparent to the philosophical community. Entrants submit up to three original essays on any philosophical topic; essays must be primarily AI-generated, with some human guidance allowed, and each entry must include a methodology report explaining how the essay was produced. Essays are capped at 6,000 words each and may not be previously published or under review elsewhere; entrants consent to online publication and may choose anonymity. Judging is blind to methodology and authorship and evaluates the quality and originality of the philosophical content (style is not graded); the judging committee includes David Chalmers, John Hawthorne, Herman Cappelen, Cian Dorr and other academic philosophers. PRIZES: USD 3,000 / 2,000 / 1,000 for the top three essays, plus a USD 5,000 creative methodology pool. Finalists announced early December 2026, results end of January 2027. DEADLINE: 31 October 2026.
The Open Notebook's paid fellowship for early-career science journalists is open for its 2027 round. Fellows spend twelve months working part-time and remotely with a personal mentor, reporting and writing articles about the craft of science journalism that are published at The Open Notebook, one of the field's central craft resources. Eligibility: early-career science journalists with fewer than three years of regular professional science-writing experience; applicants from anywhere in the world are welcome, and application materials are in English. TO APPLY: submit the application form (linked from the program page) by 31 October 2026, 11:59 PM US Central time; reference letters are due 7 November 2026. The fellowship year starts 9 February 2027.
First visiting-fellow cohort of the newly launched KU Leuven AI Safety Lab, a multidisciplinary research group on large-scale risks of advanced AI (independent research, policy workshops, a summer school and an annual conference). Five fellows spend March to May 2027 in Leuven under two programmes: Theories of Victory and Viable Endgames (positive AI futures and the conditions for beneficial advanced AI outcomes) and Democratic Control over AI Companies (power concentration and mechanisms for societal oversight of frontier AI developers); strong AI safety proposals outside these two areas are also considered. ELIGIBILITY: PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and researchers outside academia, from any relevant discipline; applications from underrepresented groups encouraged. APPLICATION: email a CV (max 2 pages including publications), a one-page cover letter and a research plan (max 1,500 words) to existentialrisk@kuleuven.be with subject line 'Fellowship application' plus the programme name. Deadline 31 October 2026.
The SURF Artist-in-Residence program invites artists to create work inspired by the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. At 4,850 feet deep, SURF is the deepest underground laboratory in the United States, housed in the former Homestake Gold Mine, and hosts experiments in physics, biology, geology and engineering. The residency is modeled after programs run by the National Park Service, CERN and Fermilab, and aims to create awareness of the science and encourage interdisciplinary work. STRUCTURE: a four-week on-site visit in summer 2027 (between 22 May and 31 July, timed to the artist's schedule) with studio time, guided underground visits, tours of Lead and the surrounding Black Hills sites, and dinners with scientists; then a one-week visit in October 2027 to install an art exhibition, give up to two lectures based on the proposal, and run promotional or outreach events in the local community (which may include schools, universities, interviews or documentation of the residency). FUNDING: a USD 5,000 stipend paid in two installments; the artist may apply for up to USD 5,000 in additional funds for creating the artwork; transportation, housing and per diem for both visits; and return shipping covered up to USD 7,000. CONDITIONS: each artist donates at least one artwork, selected by a SURF representative, to SURF's permanent art collection, and is responsible for installation and de-installation in coordination with SURF and the exhibition space. A timeline and expectations are agreed in an MOU before the residency begins. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: working underground requires being comfortable in dark spaces, following all safety protocols, walking on uneven surfaces for at least a mile at a time, and negotiating wet, slippery conditions and an elevator ride in the dark; safety training and loaned personal protective equipment are mandatory, and a SURF guide accompanies the artist at all times. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026, via the SURF AiR application portal.
Whose Archive is it Anyway? is the first in a three-part series of events at The Photographers' Gallery exploring the future of archives and archiving. This one-day event on Friday 16 April 2027 kickstarts the conversation with commissioned talks addressing what it means to make an archive today, who decides what an archive consists of, who creates an archive, who an archive is for, and who has access. The gallery welcomes submissions of real-life experiences rather than academic papers that challenge or answer these or other points related to the future of archives. SUGGESTED TOPICS: artist and photographers' legacies; institutional archives; memory (forgotten or lost histories made visible again); truth within archives (who is telling the stories and how); ownership (who has the authority to tell stories, who owns the images and their stories); relationships between those who create archives and those who use them; radical, non-traditional archives that redesign how stories are gathered and held to safeguard living memories; family archives; reclaimed photographic archives; counter archives that question dominant historical narratives; grassroots archives; technologies that reduce barriers to archives while safeguarding material; digital preservation and digitisation; and dialogic archives. ELIGIBILITY: open to all, especially those with experience of working with archives and the stories within them; applicants must be 18 or older and available to attend The Photographers' Gallery in London on 16 April 2027 to speak at the event. Selected speakers receive a fee of GBP 200 and will be notified by 18 January 2027. Questions to archive@tpg.org.uk. Deadline 1 November 2026, 11:59pm GMT.
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.
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.
The Rome Prize supports roughly 30 artists and scholars a year with a residential fellowship at the American Academy in Rome; disciplines include Design and Visual Arts, where media and new-genre work is regularly funded. Fellows receive a USD 16,000 (half-term) or USD 30,000 (full-term) stipend plus housing, workspace and weekday meals on the Academy's Janiculum campus. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens for most categories; foreign nationals who have lived in the US for the three years preceding the deadline may apply in Environmental Arts and Humanities and certain postdoctoral categories. FEES: USD 50 (one category) or USD 60 (multiple) by 1 November 2026; a late window runs to 15 November at USD 80/90. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026.
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.
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.
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.
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin awards research fellowships for on-site work in its collections spanning literature, photography, film, art, performing arts, music and cultural history, supporting scholarly articles, dissertations, creative works, digital humanities projects and exhibition proposals. FELLOWSHIP TYPES: Postdoctoral Fellowships of USD 3,500 per month for one or two months, open to holders of a PhD or terminal degree (MFA, MLIS), current or former faculty, and similarly qualified researchers without institutional affiliation; Dissertation Fellowships of USD 2,500 for graduate students with doctoral dissertations in progress; and Travel Stipends of USD 2,000 open to graduate students, current or former faculty and independent researchers including journalists and artists (not combinable with other Ransom Center fellowships). International recipients in all categories receive an additional one-time USD 500 stipend toward visa and travel costs. Fellows spend most days in the Reading Room consulting the collections, with access to a shared office, during a residency period between 1 June 2027 and 31 August 2028. APPLY with a three-page proposal PDF and letters of recommendation; recommendation letters are also due by the deadline. DEADLINE: 6 November 2026, 5:00 PM CST.
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.
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program awards USD 200,000 each to scholars, journalists, authors and public intellectuals for one to two years of research and writing toward a book or major study in the social sciences and humanities, with recent classes framed around understanding US political polarization and strengthening social cohesion. HOW IT WORKS: this is a nomination-based program; individuals cannot apply directly. Nominations come from designated nominators at universities, colleges, think tanks, publishers and other institutions, and most nominating institutions run internal selection rounds with deadlines in early October 2026 (check your institution's research office). Carnegie Corporation's nomination deadline is 13 November 2026, with fellows announced in spring 2027. ELIGIBILITY: US-based candidates put forward by their institutions; both senior and junior scholars are considered. If you are affiliated with a university or think tank and want to be considered, contact your institution's limited-submissions or research development office well before its internal deadline. NOMINATION DEADLINE: 13 November 2026.
The UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP), funded by Arcadia, grants its ninth cohort of awards to preserve, document and digitize cultural heritage collections at risk from environmental conditions, political uncertainty, inherently unsustainable media, inappropriate storage, or communal and social change. IN SCOPE: 20th and 21st century materials, including print, photographic, film, video, audio, ephemeral and born-digital objects; all funded materials are published open access in the UCLA Library Digital Collections repository. GRANT TYPES: Planning Grants up to USD 20,000 over one year for organization, survey and inventory work before digitization; Project Grants up to USD 70,000 over two years for digitization and metadata creation on collections ready to digitize, or for curating existing digital assets; Regional Grants up to USD 100,000 over two years for digital collections combining materials from three or more institutions, families or archival repositories around one theme, community or historical event, hosted by an organizing institution with prior MEAP grant experience (consult MEAP staff before applying). There is also an invitation-only Emergency Grant track up to USD 10,000 (email meap@library.ucla.edu), and a new AV Grants track up to USD 100,000 for audiovisual archives opening April 2027 with selections in September 2027. TIMELINE: applications opened 14 September 2026; preliminary application webinar 15 October 2026; preliminary applications due Monday 16 November 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific Time via meap.smapply.io; preliminary decisions December 2026; detailed applications due 12 February 2027; awards announced summer 2027. Applications name teams working with the institutions, families or repositories that hold the collections; read the Program Guidelines and Project Eligibility documents on the MEAP site before applying.
The Kaete Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE) at Saarland University invites applications for up to twelve fellowships for its fourth year, October 2027 to September 2028. CURE welcomes scholars from cultural studies, the humanities and the social sciences whose work examines questions of reparation and irreparability; artists holding a doctorate and experienced in academic collaboration may also apply. ANNUAL THEME: 'Things', foregrounding the material dimension of reparation: objects, artefacts and material environments through which practices such as repair, mending and reuse acquire cultural and political significance. Proposals must align with at least one of the Centre's three thematic fields (history, experience or nature) and address the annual theme. CONDITIONS: fellowships run six to twelve months from 1 October 2027; fellows on unpaid leave receive approximately EUR 6,100 to 7,200 per month before taxes depending on qualifications, or the home institution is reimbursed for replacement teaching; one round trip to Saarbruecken is reimbursed under the Saarland Travel Expense Act; a fully equipped individual workspace is provided and an apartment can be arranged for around EUR 1,250 per month; fellows must live in Saarbruecken and take part in the Centre's international, interdisciplinary research community. ELIGIBILITY: a completed PhD (submitted and defended) by the deadline; retired persons and Saarland University staff are not eligible. HOW TO APPLY: via the online form with a one-page motivation letter, CV (max 3 pages), list of publications, and a five-page project description with bibliography, in English, German or French. Notification by 30 April 2027. Deadline 30 November 2026.
The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) invites applications for two Leibniz Summer Fellowships in German and/or European (including Eastern European) history in the twentieth century. Fellows spend two consecutive months between April and October 2027 in Potsdam or Berlin pursuing independent research while taking part in departmental activities and presenting work in ZZF's research seminar; the institute's five research departments include Contemporary History in the Age of Media and Information Society. GRANT: EUR 3,000 per month for two months, with office space, computer facilities and specialist library resources. ELIGIBILITY: international scholars holding a doctorate and residing outside Germany at the time of application. HOW: send a letter of interest, CV, publication list and a research proposal of up to 1,500 words as a single PDF to fellowships@zzf-potsdam.de. DEADLINE: 30 November 2026.
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.
The Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design is a year-long residential fellowship for accomplished mid-career practitioners shaping the built and natural environment: urban designers, public artists, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, developers, journalists, civic leaders, policymakers and community development leaders (past fellows have included a theater director, public artists and a documentary filmmaker). Fellows audit courses at the GSD and across Harvard (minimum one GSD course per semester), engage with the school community, and join a lifelong global alumni network. SUPPORT: a stipend of USD 57,500 for the academic year (taxable income), housing through 30 June for fellows and families of modest size coming from outside the Boston/Cambridge area, and a travel grant covering roughly one economy round trip home per semester. ELIGIBILITY: minimum 8 years of experience in the field (a typical class averages about 42 years of age); international candidates are encouraged to apply and must be eligible for a J-1 visa at selection; fellows must remain in residence in the Cambridge area while classes are in session. HOW TO APPLY: via SlideRoom with a resume, three recommendation letters (due 7 days after the deadline) and optional supplemental materials. No application fee. DEADLINE: 5 January 2027 at 11:59 PM ET for the 2027-28 class.
ARDC funds amateur radio, wireless technology education, and communications research and development, including software-defined radio, mesh and packet networking, and open RF tooling, which puts it squarely at the transmission-art and community-network end of creative tech. WHAT YOU GET: grants with no stated minimum or maximum; the published 2026 portfolio ranges from USD 1,285 to USD 258,000, so both small education projects and major open-source radio infrastructure are funded. CONDITIONS: all funded work must be released openly (GPL, MIT, BSD, CERN OHL or CC licenses). ELIGIBILITY: US 501(c)(3) nonprofits, government agencies, schools and universities, and international nonprofits and schools; individuals, artist collectives and radio clubs must apply through a nonprofit fiscal sponsor, which is routine in the US but adds overhead. APPLICATION: open now on a quarterly cadence; the September 2026 round has closed, so the next actionable deadline is 15 January 2027, with evaluation taking 60 to 120 days.
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.
The EU's main remembrance funding line, and emphatically not Holocaust-only: the 2026-27 call (covering both years; there is no separate 2027 call) funds projects across four topics: 1) remembering democratic transitions and the (re)building of democratic institutions; 2) remembrance of the Holocaust against Jewish people; 3) remembrance of the Holocaust, acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, with priorities on Roma victims and on LGBTIQ+ and other victims; 4) the legacy of colonialism, slavery and migration in contemporary multicultural European societies. Previous rounds funded exhibitions, digital archives, testimony projects, memorial education and artistic memory work. ELIGIBILITY: lead applicant must be a non-profit legal entity (public or private) or international organisation established in an EU Member State or CERV-associated country; for-profits only as co-applicants alongside public or non-profit partners; each application addresses exactly one topic. TIMELINE: call opens 21 October 2026; deadline 24 February 2027 at 17:00 CET, via the EU Funding and Tenders Portal.
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.
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.
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/.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NOTE: this tier is institutions-only; individual researchers cannot apply in a personal capacity but can serve as principal investigators through their institution. Anthropic's earlier Economic Futures Research Awards (USD 10,000-50,000 plus USD 5,000 Claude API credits for empirical research on AI's economic impacts, rolling, with results presented within six months) are currently not accepting applications; this entry covers the larger Research Fund now open for proposals. THE FUND: Anthropic has committed USD 200 million to the Economic Futures Research Fund to support ambitious external research on interventions that prepare society for the economic impacts of AI, studying what programs could make the economy more flexible and resilient, ensure AI's benefits are shared, and minimise harm from AI-driven disruption. FIVE RESEARCH PRIORITIES: (1) AI's impact on workers at the firm and workplace level; (2) equipping people for AI-driven transitions; (3) modernising income support for displacement; (4) building worker stakes in AI-driven growth; (5) generating evidence on public investments. FUNDING: projects primarily in the USD 5-30 million range, minimum USD 1 million, flexible upward for well-scoped, high-potential-impact projects. ELIGIBILITY: accredited universities and other degree-granting institutions, independent research institutes and policy research organisations, and nonprofits with a track record of running field experiments at scale; a global fund with an initially US-centric focus. APPLICATION: via the request for proposals linked from the research agenda announcement (Google Form); no deadline published as of September 2026.