\$7,000/month stipend for 3–12 months, plus up to \$5,000 travel stipend and up to \$5,000 equipment stipend, depending on the project

Deadline: Concept note: 2026-09-07 · Full proposal (by invitation): 2026-11-01

Formerly the Information Controls Fellowship Program, ICRP funds applied research into how authoritarian governments restrict the free flow of information, cut access to the open internet, and implement censorship and surveillance — and the ways these threats to internet freedom can be countered. Projects should include a technical component or output and are reviewed in a two-stage concept-note-then-full-proposal process.

Up to \$1,500,000 for projects with durations up to 2 years

Deadline: Full proposal: 2026-09-01 · Full proposal: 2027-03-02

Supports transition of promising open-source research products with small existing user and contributor communities into sustainable, robust open-source ecosystems. A POSE Phase I award is not required to apply to Phase II.

\$250,000 over 2 years (Track 1: Domain-specific Tools); \$1,000,000 over 2 years (Track 2: Foundational Libraries and Ecosystem Initiatives)

Deadline: Letters of intent due June 8, 2026 (2 pm PDT / 9 pm UTC); Full proposals due July 21, 2026 (2 pm PDT / 9 pm UTC)

The Open Source for Science Fund invites letters of intent from developers and maintainers of open source software projects that underpin AI and data-intensive research in the life sciences. This program will fund technical advances and address significant bottlenecks in software tools with demonstrated community adoption in the life sciences, allowing them to unlock new capabilities for scientists worldwide and evolve functionality to meet the demands of AI-native research environments.

€5,000 – €50,000 per project (€450,000 total across the call)

Deadline: 1 August 2026 12:00 CEST

Small grants for projects that are somehow relevant to the Fediversity ecosystem. Priority areas include deploying fediverse services (PeerTube, Mastodon, Lemmy), email servers, VPN solutions, private cloud storage, wikis, and similar web services that enhance reliability, security, confidentiality, integrity, and resource efficiency.

\$10,000 per award (minimum 5 awards; additional prizes possible at judges' discretion)

Deadline: 21 August 2026

Awards graduate students to publish data, methodologies, results, code, null results, or standardization work from their Master’s or Ph.D. research that would otherwise go unpublished. Winners receive a \$10,000 contract with a 6-week timeline to complete and publicly post the work.

Up to \$300,000 for projects with durations up to 1 year

Deadline: Full proposal: 2026-09-01 · Full proposal: 2027-03-02

Funds scoping activities to help existing open-source research products with small user communities transition into sustainable, robust open-source ecosystems. Phase I supports early formation of managing organizations and training for teams building such ecosystems.

£150,000 total; up to £5,000 per activity

Deadline: Rolling deadline, 15th of alternate months

Supports local networks, workshops, hackathons, mentoring programmes, and training that build skills and clarify career pathways for digital Research Technical Professionals. Covers room/venue hire and catering; excludes staff time and equipment purchases.

£15,000

Deadline: 5th June 2026, 16:00 BST

“The DisCouRSE Network+ project aims to encourage and support the development of leaders of all kinds across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles, primarily within the UK, resulting in an empowered and connected community equipped to shape the future of digital research. We have a twin focus on leadership training and dRTP career pathways – preparing the next generation of leaders and ensuring roles exist for them to lead within.

Our flexible fund supports community-led projects aligned with this goal, enabling aspiring leaders to trial approaches to enhancing skills and career opportunities within their local contexts, build new connections through joint initiatives, and strategically assess options for future investment and activity.”

Each Coordination Hub Award will receive support of \$1M/year for three years, with the possibility for one additional year of support if the Coordination Hub can demonstrate a compelling need as it phases out or transitions to other sources of funding.

Deadline: Letter of intent required; Due June 16, 2026

TechAccess: AI-Ready America is a national-scale initiative to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness and adoption across the U.S. by strengthening coordination, leveraging partnerships and resources, filling gaps, and scaling what works — so local and state priorities can lead in shaping an AI-driven economy that benefits all Americans. Unlike initiatives centered around K – 16 education, AI-Ready America additionally reaches businesses, public-serving organizations, and individuals, among others, expanding access to AI knowledge, tools, and resources. The program also emphasizes practical implementation through hands-on assistance and workforce up-skilling, including experiential learning such as internships, project-based work, and apprenticeships, to ensure stakeholders can effectively apply and innovate with AI.

The program supports:

1. State/Territory Coordination Hubs (Coordination Hubs) – one in every state, the District of Columbia (DC), or territory in the United States – connecting partners, strengthening planning and deployment, and rapidly scaling approaches;
2. A National Coordination Lead (National Lead) – facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing among Coordination Hubs, coordinating priority economic sectors, and informing national AI strategies; and
3. AI-Ready Catalyst Award Competitions – a series of topic-driven competitions issued over the course of the program to pilot and scale innovative approaches that address critical national AI readiness needs.

This funding opportunity focuses on Coordination Hubs. The National Lead will be funded as an Other Transaction (OT) offered through an Other Transaction Agreement Solutions Offering. AI-Ready Catalyst Award Competitions will be announced through an NSF-approved mechanism, with proposals submitted according to the instructions provided at the time of announcement.

£350,000 total across two rounds; each round funds one large project up to £150,000 and several small projects up to £15,000 (80% of Full Economic Costs)

Deadline: 30 September 2026, 11:59pm BST (first round)

Funds development of tools, frameworks, and approaches — such as self-assessment tools and skill-role-resource alignment frameworks — that make the digital Research Technical Professional training landscape more transparent and accessible. Outputs must be FAIR and Open.

\$10,000 per project, paid in tranches (\$6,000 during the 3-week program, \$2,000 at the 6-month check-in, \$2,000 at the 12-month check-in), plus up to \$10,000 in Azure credits

Deadline: Session 5 applications open, reviewed on a rolling basis; due 2026-08-18

Funds maintainers of widely-depended-on open source projects to improve security practices, through a 3-week education program, GitHub Security Lab office hours, and direct funding tied to security milestones at 6- and 12-month check-ins. Session 5 applications are currently open and under rolling review.

€17,000,000 total; up to €1,700,000 per proposal

Deadline: Call expected to open October 2026 · Letter of intent due 2026-11-03 · Full proposal due 2027-04-13

Pre-announcement for the next round of the Open Science Infrastructure programme, supporting improvement and further development of existing digital infrastructures that enable open science, with a greater focus on collaboration and consortium formation. Full call details, including eligibility, will be published in the Staatscourant closer to opening.

£350,000 total across at least two rounds; individual projects up to £40,000 (80% of Full Economic Costs)

Deadline: 30 September 2026, 11:59pm BST

Supports trainers and training providers improving the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of training resources in the digital research infrastructure space, e.g. metadata schemas, trainer documentation, skills-framework mapping, and delivery-mode adaptation. Projects run up to 12 months, with shorter projects preferred.

£4,000 per Fellow, to spend over a 15-month period

Deadline: Applications open 10 August 2026; close 5 October 2026

Funds individuals’ plans to advance research software practices over a 15-month fellowship period (1 January 2027 – 31 March 2028), selected via a proposal and six-minute screencast presentation, with an emphasis on collaboration, communication, and practical contributions to the research software community.

€15,000

Deadline: 10 December 2026 14:00 CET

Both researchers and research support staff may submit an application for financial support for organising an open science meeting.

£150,000 total; up to £5,000 per award

Deadline: Rolling deadline, 15th of each month

Reimbursement-based fund supporting early-career digital Research Technical Professionals to attend conferences, training courses, and certificate programmes, or undertake inter-institutional knowledge-exchange visits. Staff time is ineligible; recipients commit to sharing outcomes via blog posts or webinars.

€5,000 – €50,000 per project

Deadline: 1 August 2026 12:00 CEST

Small grants for projects relevant to the GNU Taler privacy-preserving digital payment system. One of only two NGI Zero sub-funds still accepting proposals (alongside NGI Fediversity) while NLnet transitions to its successor Open Internet Stack effort.

\$300,000 for up to three years; no more than \$200,000 for one year

Deadline: Letter of intent: 2026-05-04 · Full proposal: 2026-06-04

Salary support via the NIH Research Specialist (R50) mechanism for Research Software Engineers contributing to NIH-funded biomedical, clinical, behavioral, or health-related research software, tools, and algorithms. Targets RSEs outside a traditional independent-investigator career path.