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    AI funding for students

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12 Nov2 days left

Helmholtz AI Projects Call 2026

Helmholtz AI (Helmholtz Association) · Germany

GrantResearchersEurope

€500k+ per project(max €250k from the INF plus matching funding from the centres); up to 3 years
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
13 Nov3 days left

Physical AI Growth Lab

UnternehmerTUM Accelerator with Microsoft, Infineon and NVIDIA · Munich, Germany (hybrid)

AcceleratorStartups & foundersEuropeNo fees · no equity

Free, equity-free; up to €350K Microsoft Azure credits plus NVIDIA Inception credits and hardware discounts
Verified 31 Oct+ Add to calendar

Upcoming deadlines

20 Nov10 days left

Lightcone Research Fellowship (first cohort)NEW

Lightcone (CNRS & UC Berkeley) · Remote (summit in Paris)

FellowshipResearchersEarly-careerStudentsGlobal

Frontier AI model credits (Claude or Codex tokens), hands-on support and travel support to the Paris Agentic AI for Science Summit
Verified 9 Nov+ Add to calendar
27 Nov17 days left

RobotX PhD Fellowship 2027

RobotX, Center for Robotics, ETH Zurich · Zurich, Switzerland

FellowshipStudentsEurope

Fully funded PhD position (100%, fixed-term) at ETH Zurich
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
30 Nov20 days left

RoboWorld 2026, Track 1: WorldNav

RoboPAD Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026 (Codabench) · Online

CompetitionResearchersStudentsGlobal

Certificates for top 5 teamsselected teams invited to present at the RoboPAD Workshop at NeurIPS 2026 (no cash prize stated)
Verified 31 Oct+ Add to calendar
1 Dec21 days left

AI Founder Sprint 2027

Venture Lab (AI Founder Sprint) · Online

AcceleratorStartups & foundersOpen to anyoneGlobalOpen internationallyNo fees · no equity

Free 10-week virtual programmeno equity
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
1 Dec21 days left

AMD AI League

lablab.ai × AMD · Online

CompetitionOpen to anyoneStudentsGlobalIndividuals

$10,000+ in prizes$100 GPU credits when you join
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
4 Dec24 days left

Kiroween 2026

Kiro (on Devpost) · Online

CompetitionOpen to anyoneGlobal

$100,000 in prizes1st $30,000
Verified 31 Oct+ Add to calendar
6 Dec26 days left

Conception X Venture Scientist 100 (Spring 2027)

Conception X · UK / Europe (hybrid)

FellowshipStudentsResearchersStartups & foundersUKStudents eligibleEarly careerNo fees · no equity

Free programme, no fees and no equity taken; top performers can pitch partner investors for up to £300k (XTX Ventures + CX angel syndicate)
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
9 Dec29 days left

AI HACK Tokyo (3rd edition)

AIHACK運営事務局 · Online + Tokyo, Japan

CompetitionOpen to anyoneStudentsEarly-careerAsiaIndividualsTeamsNo fees · no equity

¥1,000,000 total prize budget(annual); free to enter
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
9 Dec29 days left

NEXT AI 2027 cohort

NEXT Canada · Toronto / Montréal / remote, Canada

AcceleratorStartups & foundersCanada

No equity, no funding (investor network access)
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
17 Dec37 days left

FUTUREHACK '26

Hack The Future · Online (India)

CompetitionOpen to anyoneStudentsAsiaIndividualsTeamsNo fees · no equity

₹10,000 prize pool
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
26 Dec46 days left

GenHacks

GenHacks (Devpost) · Online

CompetitionStudentsGlobalStudents eligible

CAD 1,050+ in cash,plus partner credits
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
28 Jan 202779 days left

AI Research Groups Lower Saxony

zukunft.niedersachsen (Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture & Volkswagen Foundation) · Lower Saxony, Germany

GrantResearchersEurope

Up to EUR 2 million per research group
Verified 1 Nov+ Add to calendar
25 Jun 2027227 days left

Vesuvius Challenge: 2027 Grand Prize

Scroll Prize, Inc. (Vesuvius Challenge) · Online

CompetitionOpen to anyoneResearchersGlobalIndividualsTeams

$800,000 to the first team or individual to fully unroll and make readable a scroll; $2,140,000 open prize pool incl. monthly progress prizes
Verified 2 Nov+ Add to calendar

Rolling, or date not yet published

Date TBCSee listing

Claude Corps Fellowship

Anthropic (employer: CodePath) · US (on site at host nonprofits)

FellowshipEarly-careerStudentsUSNo PhD requiredEarly career

$85,000 a year salaryplus benefits, 12 months
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

Entrepreneur First

Entrepreneur First · London / Bangalore / San Francisco

AcceleratorEarly-careerStartups & foundersGlobalIndividuals

Up to $250K investment once you form a company; $600K+ in credits (incl. $350K Azure)
Verified 31 Oct
Date TBCSee listing

Forethought Founders Fellowship

Forethought · Oxford, UK or Berkeley, US

FellowshipOpen to anyoneEarly-careerResearchersGlobal

Salary roughly $170,000–$210,000(US) or £100,000–£150,000 (UK) a year, pro-rated; 2-month exit grant; considered for a seed grant of up to $2m
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

FrontierOR Challenge

FrontierOR · Online

CompetitionOpen to anyoneResearchersStudentsGlobal

Prize pool $21,000
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

Gauntlet AI Fellowship (Cohort 8)

Gauntlet AI · Austin, US

FellowshipEarly-careerOpen to anyoneUS

Ten weeks, all expenses paid (flights, housing, food, training); interviews for $200K+ roles
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

goose grant program

Block (goose open source AI agent) · Global

GrantOpen to anyoneGlobal

$100,000 USD per grant, 12 months, milestone-based
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

GTR AI Safety Fund

Global Technology Risk (GTR) Foundation · Global

GrantResearchersStartups & foundersOpen to anyoneGlobalIndividuals

Funding for people and early-stage organisations in AI safety (amount set per case)
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

Hugging Face Community GPU Grants (for Spaces)NEW

Hugging Face · Global / online

Compute creditsOpen to anyoneStudentsResearchersGlobal

GPU hardware upgrade for an approved Space (amount not stated)
Verified 9 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

Nebius Research Grants

Nebius · Global

Compute creditsResearchersStudentsGlobalStudents eligible

GPU cloud credits, Token Factory tokens and Tavily credits (amount set per proposal)
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

Northeast India AI Research Fellowship (MWire Labs)NEW

MWire Labs · Remote

FellowshipStudentsEarly-careerResearchersAsia

8–12 week remote fellowshipNLP mentorship, co-authorship opportunities and a completion certificate (no stipend stated)
Verified 9 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

NTU Beyond Binary Techathon 2027

Nanyang Technological University (Devpost) · Singapore

CompetitionStudentsAsiaStudents eligible

$10,000
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

Perplexity Research Fellowship

Perplexity · San Francisco, New York City or Palo Alto, US

FellowshipEarly-careerResearchersStudentsUSEarly career

$180K – $220K(annualised compensation), full time
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

Runpod Startup Program

Runpod · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

Starter Tier: $1,000 in credits; Growth Tier: $25,000 bonus credits when you commit $50,000
Verified 9 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

Together AI Startup Accelerator

Together AI · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

Up to $15K(raised up to $5M), $30K ($5M–$10M) or $50K (over $10M) in platform credits, plus forward-deployed engineering hours
Verified 1 Nov
Date TBCSee listing

Z Fellows

Z Fellows · San Francisco, US

AcceleratorStartups & foundersStudentsOpen to anyoneUS

Optional $10,000 investment($1B valuation cap); one week with founders of billion-dollar companies
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time

Anthropic AI for Science program

Anthropic · Global

Compute creditsResearchersGlobal

Up to $20,000 in API creditsover 6 months
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time

Anthropic Fellows Program

Anthropic · UK / USA / Canada

FellowshipResearchersEarly-careerGlobalNo PhD required

Stipend (see listing) plus ~$15K/month compute and mentorship
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

AWS Activate Credits

Amazon Web Services · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

Up to $5,000(self-funded) or up to $200,000 (with an Activate Provider Org ID); invite-only $200K+ for AI startups at scale
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

AWS Cloud Credit for Research

Amazon Web Services · Global

Compute creditsResearchersStudentsGlobalStudents eligible

Students up to $5,000faculty/staff awards not capped
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time

BlueDot Career Transition Grant

BlueDot Impact · Global

GrantEarly-careerOpen to anyoneGlobal

Up to $200,000generally from $20K
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

BlueDot Rapid Grants

BlueDot Impact · Global

GrantOpen to anyoneGlobal

Up to $20,000
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

Cloudflare for Startups

Cloudflare · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

$10K, $100K or $350K in credits for a year, by stage
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

Databricks for Startups

Databricks · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

Up to $200K in credits for Databricks and Neon
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

ElevenLabs Grants

ElevenLabs · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

12 months of free access to the ElevenLabs platform (up to 33M text characters)
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

EuroHPC AI Factories Playground Access

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking · EU

Compute creditsStartups & foundersResearchersEurope

Free access for eligible users (hours not stated)
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time

EuroHPC Large Scale Access to AI Factories

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking · EU

Compute creditsStartups & foundersResearchersEurope

Large GPU allocations (size per call documents)
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time

Google Cloud research credits

Google Cloud for Education · Approved countries

Compute creditsResearchersStudentsGlobalStudents eligible

Amount not captured from the page (third-party reports cite up to $5,000; unverified)
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time

Google for Startups Cloud Program: AI track

Google Cloud · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

Up to $350,000 in Google Cloud creditsover 2 years (AI-first startups)
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

Google TPU Research Cloud (TRC)

Google Research · Global

Compute creditsResearchersStudentsGlobalNo fees · no equity

Cloud TPUs at no charge (quota per acceptance)
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time

Grok for Startups

SpaceXSI · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

Credits sized to ~six months of realistic usage across Grok, Grok Build, Grok Bot and the Grok API (amount varies)
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

Iliad Fellowship

Iliad · London / SF Bay Area

FellowshipResearchersStudentsGlobalNo fees · no equity

Fully funded; $6,000/month travel-and-housing allowance
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

Isambard-AI and Zenith (AIRR) Gateway routeUPDATED

UK Research and Innovation · UK

Compute creditsResearchersUK

Up to 10,000 GPU hours on the Isambard-AI and Zenith supercomputers, used within three months; no funding
Verified 2 Nov
RollingApply any time

Lambda Research Grant

Lambda · Global

Compute creditsResearchersGlobal

Up to $5,000 in Lambda cloud credits
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

Lightcone Commons funding round

Lightcone Infrastructure · Global

GrantOpen to anyoneGlobalIndividuals

Varies (funders recommend amounts per proposal)
Verified 9 Nov
RollingApply any time

Microsoft for Startups

Microsoft · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

Up to $150,000 in Azure credits
Verified 9 Nov
RollingApply any time

Modal for Startups

Modal · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobal

Free GPU credits (amount not stated by the organiser)
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

NAIRR Pilot: Advancing AI Research Resources

US National Science Foundation (NAIRR Pilot) · United States

Compute creditsResearchersStudentsUSStudents eligible

12-month allocations of computing, model, platform and educational resources
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

NVIDIA Inception

NVIDIA · Global

Compute creditsStartups & foundersGlobalNo fees · no equity

Free programme: cloud credits from NVIDIA and partners, VC introductions, discounts (amounts not stated)
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

OpenAI Researcher Access Program

OpenAI · Global

Compute creditsResearchersGlobal

Up to $1,000 in API credits, valid 12 months
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time

OVHcloud Startup Program

OVHcloud · Global (EU provider)

Compute creditsStartups & foundersEurope

Free cloud credits: tiers of €10,000 and up to €100,000
Verified 1 Nov
RollingApply any time

Transformative AI Fund

EA Funds · Global

GrantOpen to anyoneResearchersGlobalIndividuals

Typically $10K–$150K, rarely above $300K
Verified 31 Oct
RollingApply any time

Women TechEU 2 EIC

Women TechEU (European Innovation Council) · EU / Horizon Europe associated countries

GrantStartups & foundersEurope

€75,000 non-dilutive fundingplus mentoring
Verified 1 Nov
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