Currently 9 active paid tech and infrastructure grants, fellowships and residencies. 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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The Fab City Awards recognise implemented and piloted initiatives showing how collective action can shape real transitions in cities and regions. 2026 theme: Collective Action for Regenerative Urban Futures. Looking for initiatives that combine design, technology and civic engagement; connect scientific knowledge with local know-how; demonstrate real on-the-ground implementation; and show potential to scale across cities and regions. Projects, platforms, policies, infrastructures or community-led programmes that are already piloted/implemented with evidence and documentation. Three categories: Community (participation, organisation, local empowerment), Technology (accessible distributed tech with social value), Nature (conservation, restoration, ecosystem protection). Three category winners each receive €1,000 seed funding plus up to USD 600 in Seeed Studio products, optional technical guidance, potential lab access (plus Fab Lab Puebla and Litchee Lab for initiatives based there), mentoring with the Fab City ecosystem, a feature across Fab City channels, and a free ticket to present at FAB26 in Boston (July 2026). One Overall Impact Award (€1,500 + the same network/mentoring/FAB26 benefits) goes to the project with the strongest systemic integration across all dimensions. One Thomas Duggan Award is given as a special distinction for Arts and Design. Open to individuals and teams across public, private and civic sectors, including for-profit and nonprofit organisations, collectives, public institutions, labs and makerspaces, community groups, NGOs, academia and companies, anywhere in the world. Evaluation 30 April to 26 May 2026; winners announced 3 June 2026. Powered by Fab City; supported by Seeed Studio, Fab Foundation, Ibero Puebla, and Litchee Lab.
Four-week paid summer residency for technologists working at the intersection of computing infrastructure, economics and the physical world. Fellows work alongside the Pace investment team and leave with original, publishable research artifacts (one sharp public piece on the systems shaping the next decade). Open to students, researchers, founders and independent thinkers who want real room to go deep on infrastructure and economics questions. Hosted at Pace HQ in NYC.
Research grants for innovative work deepening understanding of the Internet and its impact on society. Four focus areas: Inclusive Internet (structural barriers to digital participation), Greening the Internet (environmental impact and sustainability), Measuring Meaningful Connectivity (frameworks including AI, cloud, platform ecosystems), and A Trustworthy Internet (reliability, security, accountability). Open to individual researchers and organisations worldwide; underrepresented groups and Global Majority applicants strongly encouraged. Applications via Fluxx in English, French or Spanish. Deadline 22 May 2026, 21:00 UTC.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quick-turnaround grants for individuals, Wikimedia community members, groups and affiliates running short-term, low-cost Wikimedia-focused projects: editathons, workshops, community meetups, education projects, cultural heritage initiatives, gender/diversity programmes, small-scale software development and content campaigns. Five cycles per year; upcoming deadlines: 1 July 2026, 1 September 2026, 1 November 2026, 1 February 2027, 1 April 2027. Approximately 2 months processing time per cycle. Standard track and Technical Projects track (Grants:Project/Rapid/Tech) share deadlines and amounts. Apply via the Wikimedia Foundation Grantee Portal (Fluxx) at https://wmf.fluxx.io/. Transfers run slower in June and December. CEE region applications routed via the CEE Hub from 1 April 2026. Ineligible: General Support Fund grantees, applicants on SDN lists, those with recent UCoC violations.
Rolling-deadline fund for technology-focused projects that promote human rights, internet freedom and open societies. Funds anti-censorship, anti-surveillance, privacy-preserving and circumvention tools, plus applied research. Two-stage process: submit a Concept Note via the OTF online application system; reviewed monthly with feedback in 6-8 weeks. Open internationally.