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Tech and Infrastructure Grants in the EU

Currently 4 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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Open calls

  1. NGI Fediversity (11th call)

    NLnet / NGI Fediversity (funded by EU Horizon Europe) · Worldwide · Deadline: 01 Jun 2026 · Award: €5,000 to €50,000 per project

    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.

  2. NGI Fediversity (11th call): Hosting Stack of the Future

    NLnet / NGI Fediversity (funded by EU Horizon Europe) · Worldwide · Deadline: 01 Jun 2026 · Award: €5,000 to €50,000 per project (€450,000 total budget for open calls)

    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.

  3. NGI TALER (13th call): Privacy-Preserving Digital Payments

    NLnet / NGI TALER (with GNU Taler community, funded by EU Horizon Europe and Swiss SERI) · Worldwide · Deadline: 01 Jun 2026 · Award: €5,000 to €50,000 per project (€676,000 total budget for open calls)

    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.

  4. NGI Zero Commons Fund (13th call)

    NLnet / NGI Zero (funded by EU Horizon Europe and Swiss SERI) · Worldwide · Deadline: 01 Jun 2026 · Award: €5,000 to €50,000 per project (scalable for proven potential)

    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.