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AI Entrepreneurs Lab 2026
EIT's AI Entrepreneurs Lab is a five day founder bootcamp for Master's and PhD talent in AI and robotics, with up to five €10,000 prizes. Apply by 21 October 2026.
Humanity AI Open Call 2026: grants for community led AI work
Humanity AI offers grants of $75,000 to $1,000,000 to U.S. nonprofits for community led AI work. Apply by October 21, 2026.
VAF Innovatieatelier 2026 for storytellers moving into games and XR
The Flemish Audiovisual Fund gives up to six storytellers €7,500 and coaching to develop a first game or XR project. Apply by 22 October 2026 at noon.
Northern Ireland Screen London Games Festival 2027 cohort
Northern Ireland Screen will take up to 6 games companies to London Games Festival 2027 and cover flights and hotels. Expressions of interest close 22 October 2026.
Gray Swan Arena: Indirect Prompt Injection Black challenge 2026
Gray Swan's Indirect Prompt Injection Black challenge pays from a $300,000 prize pool for successful attacks on AI agents. Wave 1 runs until 22 October 2026.
Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon 2026
Amazon offers $138,000 in cash prizes for demo ready apps built for Fire TV, Alexa+, Bee and Ring. Open worldwide, submissions close October 23, 2026.
QHack 2026: Quantum Coding Championship
Xanadu's QHack 2026 pays a $67,000 cash pool for quantum coding challenges from October 16 to 23. Register now at qhack.ai.
ESA BIC Poland: 23 October 2026 open call deadline
ESA BIC Poland gives space startups an incentive of up to €50,000 plus expert support. Apply by 23 October 2026.
Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon 2026
Airwallex offers $100,000 in prizes and credits for agents built on its APIs. Applications close 23 October 2026.
Neighborhood Hacks 2026, online hackathon for high school students
Week long online hackathon for high school students who build tools for their own community. Prizes worth $57,866, mostly credits. Closes 23 October 2026.
GoBeyond 2026 call for startups
GoBeyond 2026 gives a €50,000 equity free grant to one startup incorporated in Italy. Apply by October 25, 2026.
IEEE ClimateChain Global Hackathon 2026
Online IEEE hackathon for blockchain and AI tools on climate problems. $3,000 in cash prizes, submissions October 5 to 25, 2026.
OpenStreetMap Community Microgrants 2026
OpenStreetMap offers grants of up to €500 for local community activities. Apply by 25 October 2026.
AT Jam Dole 2026
AT Jam Dole pays $750 per team member for a two week AT Protocol game prototype. Proposals close on 25 October 2026.
Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon 2026
Ten day online hackathon from Meta with a $1,000,000 cash prize pool for indie developers and startups. Apply by 25 October 2026.
Junction 2026 hackathon in Espoo with a hardware lab
Junction 2026 is a free 48 hour hackathon in Espoo, Finland, on 13 to 15 November with €100,000 in prizes. Apply by 25 October 2026.
Web3 for Social Good Hackathon 2026 at SMU Singapore
Web3 for Social Good Hackathon 2026 at SMU Singapore has a USD 20,000 prize pool. Submit an idea or a prototype on DoraHacks by 25 October 2026.
eScience Center Lorentz Competition 2026: digital sovereignty in research
The eScience Center Lorentz Competition 2026 gives the winning team a 5 day workshop in Leiden and about 400 hours of research software engineering support. Expressions of interest are due 25 October 2026.
OpenCV AI Competition 2026, powered by AWS
The OpenCV AI Competition 2026, sponsored by AWS, pays $20,250 in prizes and compute grants for computer vision projects. Entries close on October 26, 2026.
Build With AI: Basics
Build With AI: Basics pays a $2,500 prize pool for a new app built with AI skills. Submissions close on 26 October 2026.
4YFN27 Awards: startup competition at MWC Barcelona 2027
The 4YFN27 Awards give the winning digital startup €20,000 at MWC Barcelona in March 2027. Applications close 26 October 2026.
ESA BIC Hessen: 26 October 2026 application deadline
ESA BIC Hessen in Darmstadt offers space startups 60,000 euro in funding plus ESA technical support. The next application deadline is 26 October 2026.
Brains Fellowship 2027 by Speculative Technologies
Brains is a free, four month, part time remote fellowship that helps scientists design and launch new research programs. Apply by 26 October 2026.
Hackaday Retrocomputing Contest 2026
Hackaday and DigiKey give a $150 gift certificate to each of three favorite retrocomputing projects. Entries close on October 27, 2026.
FFF Bayern games funding: October 27, 2026 deadline
FFF Bayern funds game concepts, prototypes and production for studios in Bavaria, with grants up to €200,000 and loans up to €500,000. Applications close October 27, 2026.
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg games funding: October 27, 2026 deadline
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg lends game studios up to €300,000 for prototypes and up to €600,000 for production. The next deadline is October 27, 2026.
GitLab Life After Code Hackathon 2026
An online GitLab hackathon for AI agents that automate code review, security, testing and deployment, with $45,000 in cash prizes. Submit by 27 October 2026.
ESA BIC Latvia: 27 October 2026 deadline
ESA BIC Latvia offers €80,000 for space startups in Latvia, plus incubation and coaching. Apply by 27 October 2026.
HERIFORGE 2nd Open Call 2026
HERIFORGE offers up to €50,000 for immersive cultural heritage projects. Up to six projects. Apply by 27 October 2026 at 17:00 CET.
ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellowship 2027
The ETH AI Center in Zurich offers 8 to 12 paid doctoral fellowships in AI, with a salary from CHF 73,100 a year. Apply by 27 October 2026.
ETH AI Center Postdoctoral Fellowship 2027
ETH AI Center postdoctoral fellowships in Zurich pay CHF 92,500 in year one and CHF 97,200 in year two for AI research. Apply by 27 October 2026.
AWS Communication Developer Services Agentic AI Partner Hackathon 2026
AWS pays a $40,000 prize pool for agentic AI built on its communication services. Open to AWS Partners until October 28, 2026.
Anthropic Conceptual Reasoning Fellowship 2027
Anthropic pays $100,000 to $167,000 for a four month Conceptual Reasoning Fellowship. Apply by 28 October 2026.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge 2026: DeepRAP trustworthy cognitive AI
EIC Pathfinder grants of €500,000 to €4 million for research on AI that can reason, abstract and plan. Proposals close 28 October 2026.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge 2026: Advanced Materials for Miniaturised Energy Harvesting Systems
EIC Pathfinder grants of €500,000 to €4 million to build tiny energy harvesting devices from new materials. Proposals close 28 October 2026.
Anthropic STEM Fellowship 2027
Anthropic pays $100,000 to $167,000 for a four month STEM Fellowship for PhD scientists and engineers. Apply by 28 October 2026.
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Arbitrum Stablecoin Growth Program: 2M ARB pool for USDG protocols
The Arbitrum Foundation offers incentives and a 2M ARB pool to stablecoin protocols that move to USDG. First 10 teams at $10M USDG get 200K ARB each.
Code for a Billion: Bharat Agentic AI Hackathon 2026
Code for India offers a ₹18,00,000 prize pool for open source AI agents that solve public problems. Submissions close 15 November 2026.
Ethereum Bug Bounty Program 2026: up to $1,000,000, Glamsterdam in scope
The Ethereum Foundation pays up to $1,000,000 for critical bugs in Ethereum specs, clients and compilers. Glamsterdam is now in scope. No end date.
NSF AI Datasets 2026: grants up to $5 million to make science data ready for AI
NSF grants of up to $5 million to make existing science datasets usable by AI. Open to US universities, labs and companies. Deadline November 4, 2026.
Paxos Labs bug bounty on Immunefi: up to $500,000
Paxos Labs pays up to $500,000 in USDG for smart contract bugs in Transit and PAXGy. The bounty went live on Immunefi on 20 October 2026.
Smart Buildings Competition 2026 on Kaggle: $40,000 for AI that controls building HVAC
Kaggle competition to train HVAC control policies that work in buildings they have never seen. $40,000 in prizes, final submissions by January 15, 2027.
Snapmaker Innovation Fund 2026: Open Competition Phase 2
Snapmaker pays $50,000 in cash prizes, up to $5,000 per project, for firmware, software and hardware mods for its U1 printer. Submit 28 October to 24 December 2026.
University of Chicago AI in the Workplace Fellowship, Spring 2027
University of Chicago fellowship with up to $25,000 for faculty and PhD students studying how AI changes work. Apply by October 30, 2026.
1inch Aqua bug bounty on Immunefi: up to $100,000
1inch pays up to $100,000 in USDC for bugs in Aqua, its new protocol for custom liquidity positions, and in the Swap VM contracts. The bounty runs on Immunefi.
Entrepreneurs First Winter 27 Bangalore Program: second selection round
Entrepreneurs First pays an INR 360,000 talent investment and can invest up to $250,000 per company. Apply by November 2, 2026 for the second selection round.
iGi indie Game incubator 7th edition (2027)
iGi is a free incubator from Marvelous for indie game creators living in Japan, with mentoring and up to ¥500,000 in support. Apply by December 15, 2026.
Kodansha Game Lab Monthly Awards for indie game creators
Kodansha Game Lab gives indie game creators a ¥100,000 monthly award and an editor, with research funding of up to ¥1,000,000. First cutoff October 31, 2026.
NEURA Research Programme 2026/2027: Physical AI call for proposals
Up to €500k per project for universities, research institutes and startups in the EU, UK or Switzerland that bring Physical AI robot skills to a real pilot. Proposals close 30 October 2026.
Oxford Technical AI Governance DPhil Studentships 2027
Fully funded Oxford DPhil places on the technical side of AI governance, from compute and hardware to model evaluations. Apply by 2 December 2026 for October 2027 entry.
RICH Hub Climate AI Innovation: support and scaling grants for African climate AI
African climate AI projects at pilot stage can ask the RICH Hub for coaching, pilots and scaling grants of up to USD 200,000. Expressions of interest are reviewed on a rolling basis.
RobotX PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027 at ETH Zurich
Paid PhD and postdoc fellowships in robotics at ETH Zurich, with one application seen by up to three RobotX professors. Apply by 27 November 2026.
Starknet Web and Smart Contracts bug bounty on HackenProof: up to $250,000
Starknet pays up to $250,000 for critical bugs in the StarkGate bridge contracts and website. The bounty runs on HackenProof with no end date.
X Layer TapeOut Accelerate 2026 hackathon
X Layer TapeOut Accelerate is an online hackathon with a 100,000 USDT prize pool for apps built with TapeOut on X Layer. Submit by December 7, 2026.
CancerX Accelerator 2027 cohort for digital cancer care startups
Six month CancerX Accelerator for digital and AI cancer care startups. No equity, no fee. Applications close 30 November 2026.
CHARTED Fund 2: Community Activities, 15 November 2026 deadline
CHARTED pays UK research software and data professionals up to £12.5k for community events, training and hackathons. Next deadline 15 November 2026.
Decentraland Creator Success 2026: paid game development for indie creators
Up to $4,100 in staged funding for solo developers and small teams to build social games in Decentraland. Apply for V0 by 30 November 2026.
Frontier AI: SME Champions 2026, Phase 1 grants from Innovate UK
Innovate UK grants for UK SMEs to test new frontier AI and machine learning ideas. Projects cost £150,000 to £250,000. Apply by 11 November 2026.
Google Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition 2026 on Kaggle
Kaggle competition from Google DeepMind to train Gemma 4 into an offline coding agent. $100,000 in prizes; join by 25 November 2026.
IHS AI and the Workforce research grants 2026 for faculty
The Institute for Humane Studies offers faculty up to $20,000 for research on how AI changes work and jobs. Apply by 15 December 2026.
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