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Overview
| Donor: | European AI & Society Fund |
| Application procedure: | Online Application |
| Donor base: | Belgium |
| Reference number: | - |
| Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation |
| Deadline: | 06.01.2025 |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Medium - up to $1,000,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | 10.000€ |
| Total available budget: | 2.000.000€ |
| Funding type: | Grants |
| Maximum grant size: | 200.000€ |
| Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Research, Technology & Innovation
Project Locations
Europe
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia
Description
1) Objective
The focus of the AI Accountability Grants is to support work that will contribute to addressing how AI affects people and society.
The Fund does not prescribe which approaches, tactics and regulations to use. They have also not specified geographies or issue areas to prioritise – they want to hear from organisations and coalitions in the field where there are opportunities to make change happen. Examples of work that could be funded:
- Conducting research to identify provisions in labour and human rights laws that may provide a path to justice for communities harmed by algorithmic decisions in the workplace or when accessing welfare benefits.
- Using transparency mechanisms to find evidence of AI harms that can be used in future campaigns, complaints, and legal cases.
- Preparation of complaints on high-risk systems, to be submitted under the AI Act once it is in force.
- Drafting and submitting complaints under EU regulations, such as the GDPR, that challenge the unlawful use of personal data for training AI systems, for example in healthcare.
- Developing experimental litigation strategies to limit the harmful environmental impact of data centres, including pre-litigation research, evidence gathering and legal fees.
- Strategies to challenge corporate power through antitrust mechanisms, such as investigations by competition authorities or actions under the Digital Markets Act. This could involve research to provide evidence to regulators and cooperation with consumer bodies.
2) Eligibility
Organisations should be registered and carry out their work in one or several of the following countries: the EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK. Organisations must have non-profit status.
3) Location
Actions must take place in EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK.
4) Budget
Applicants can apply for a grant between €10,000 and €200,000, and the total funding we will allocate through this call is €2 million.
5) Application
In the first round we ask for a short concept note to be submitted on Optimy, their online portal along with the overall budget amount you are requesting. It must be submitted by 6 January 2025 at 23:59 CET.