🎓 Awesome Grants

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🎓 PhD & grad students Fellowships, thesis funding, and travel support while you study. See your grants → 🔬 Postdocs & early career Bridge fellowships and career development awards for your next step. See your grants → 🧑‍🏫 Faculty & PIs Project grants and lab funding from $10K to $2M+. See your grants → 💻 Open-source maintainers Funds like Sovereign Tech Fund and NLnet that pay you to maintain. See your grants → 🚀 Indie builders Microgrants and prototype funding — no institution required. See your grants → 🤖 AI researchers Grants, fellowships & compute credits from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta & more. See your grants →

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🔥 Popular starting points

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) — flagship US PhD fellowship Annual · October
• ERC Starting Grant — up to €1.5M for early-career PIs in Europe Annual · October
• NLnet Foundation Open Call — open-source and open-internet projects Every ~2 months
• Google PhD Fellowship — funding plus a Google research mentor Annual

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