Currently 5 active tech and infrastructure grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the EU. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Every entry is funded, no exposure-only calls. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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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.
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.
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.
Council of Europe civic-tech hackathon to combat online hate speech and develop tech solutions for democracy, run alongside No Hate Speech Week and backed by a Microsoft prize pool. Four challenge tracks cover privacy-preserving hate speech detection, identifying coordinated inauthentic behaviour, gender-based violence reporting systems, and innovative social transformation approaches. ELIGIBILITY: pre-formed multidisciplinary teams of 3-4 (typically a technologist/developer, a democracy or policy expert, and a designer or UX innovator); residents of the 46 Council of Europe member states; coding experience is not required for every team member. FORMAT: four online warm-up sessions, then a three-day in-person finale at the Palais de l'Europe, Strasbourg, 17-19 June 2026.
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.