Deadline: |
July 22, 2020
Location: |
Online
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Description
Description
AI FOR EARTH GRANT
The National Geographic Society (NGS) and Microsoft’s AI for Earth program are partnering to support the exploration of how AI can help us understand, engage, and protect the planet. The $1 million AI for Earth Innovation Grant will provide grants to 5-15 novel projects that improve the way we monitor, model, and ultimately manage Earth’s natural systems for a more sustainable future.
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The grants will support the creation and deployment of open source trained models and algorithms that are available to other environmental researchers and innovators and thereby have the potential to provide exponential impact.
All models supported through this grant must be open source, and grant recipients must be willing to share their models for use by other environmental researchers and innovators.
Opportunity Focus Areas:
- Biodiversity.
- Climate change.
Required Languages
Required Languages
English.
Eligible Countries
Eligible Countries
ALL WORLD COUNTRIES
Program Period
Program Period
One calendar year or less.
Eligibility Requirements (Criteria)
Eligibility Requirements (Criteria)
- You may submit a proposal as the project leader for only one project at a time. You must submit a final report and media from any previous grants for which you were the leader before applying to lead a new project.
- Organizations can apply for grants, but the person within the organization who will lead the project—not the institution—should be the applicant and will be expected to meet the requirements of the grant.
- All applicants must be at least 18 years old at the time they submit an application. There is no upper age limit.
- Applicants from around the world are encouraged to apply. At this time, National Geographic can not fund work in North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Crimea due to U.S. legal restrictions concerning projects in these countries.
- Project start dates should be a minimum of six months after the submission deadline to ensure any awarded funds are received in time.
- Grant projects last one calendar year or less. If you apply for more than one year of funding, your proposal will be sent back to you to revise and resubmit for the next deadline.
- All models supported through this grant must be open source, and grant recipients must be willing to publicly share both the underlying data and their developed solutions.
- It is required that at least one member of the team has strong enough technical skills (such as AI, machine learning, statistical data analysis, scientific modeling, software development, and/or remote sensing).
- To strengthen your proposal, consider building a multidisciplinary team that spans technology and environmental science.
Opportunity Cost
Opportunity Cost
(Award)
- Projects are funded for between US $5,000 and US $100,000.– In addition to financial support, successful applicants will receive free access to AI for Earth APIs, applications, tools, and tutorials, and support for their computational work on Microsoft Azure.
How to Apply
How to Apply
First Step: You must apply using the online application in the Grants Portal.
Verify that you agree with all the eligibility requirements and submit your agreement.
Second Step: You can download for preparation purposes only a sample application for each primary project focus supported by the AI for Earth Innovation RFP.
Third Step: You will be required to provide along with your application:
- A curriculum vitae (CV) or resumé, in English.
- A budget with your proposal.
- Name, email address, project role, affiliate organization, highest degree earned, and country of primary residence for all members of your project team.
Note: If you plan to work outside of your home country, you must include at least one local collaborator on your project team.
If you have questions about the AI for Earth Innovation RFP, please email grantsinfo@ngs.org with “AI for Earth Innovation” in the subject line.
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