Deadline: 25-Jul-22
Applications are now open for the European AI Fund to empower a diverse ecosystem of civil society organisations to shape technology and policy around Artificial Intelligence. add this line on funding €50,000 and €250,000 over two years that will support organisations to build policy and advocacy capacity.
European AI Fund supports specialist organisations working on digital issues to have greater impact. And they support organisations focused on other issues such as climate, race, migration, labour rights or justice among others to better understand how AI affects the communities they represent and advocate for their needs.
Funding Information
The European AI Fund 2022 Open Call offers a total of 1.8m euros in core funding to support organisations on two fronts:
- Organisations that already focus on AI and its impacts: support to strengthen their policy and advocacy capacity
- Organisations that focus primarily on other issues: support to build up their expertise and capacity around AI and its impacts on the communities they represent
- Grants will be awarded for a two-year period, commencing in November 2022.
What are they looking for?
They want to fund organisations that have an actionable plan for how they will contribute to their mission. Tell them how you will help shape the future of AI in Europe and what part you can play in a European civil society ecosystem.
- Relevance of issue: Tell them why your work is urgent. Why is it important that your organisation is supported by the AI Fund to shape the future direction of AI in Europe.
- Advocacy: Explain how their support will build your capacity as an organisation to engage in these issues AND do policy and advocacy work around them.
- Potential for impact: Tell them how you approach making change happen and some of the successes you’ve had in the past. What would that look like when you engage on shaping the future of AI.
- Civil society ecosystem: What do you bring to the landscape? what is it that you can contribute to the civil society ecosystem? what will you learn? how could your work have a wider impact?
- Capacity building: They want civil society to be resilient and sustainable. Tell them how their support will help your organisation engage over the long term.
Eligibility Criteria
- The grant provides general operating support and core support for institutional strengthening that empowers organisations to do policy and advocacy work that will shape the future of AI in Europe.
- The European AI Fund accepts applications from civil society organisations registered in the EU, EEA, the UK, and Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.
- This call is not open to organisations that received funding through their first Open Call.
- They will hold separate conversations with existing grantees that wish to renew funding.
For more information, visit https://europeanaifund.org/european-ai-fund-open-call-2022/