1st Call for Open Ideas and Challenges

Call open: 01 February 2023, Deadline: 31 March 2023

The call is now closed!

The NGI Transatlantic Fellowship program is seeking to engage NGI Researchers and Innovators, including researchers with technical background, or Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) background, or from other multidisciplinary fields e.g. working at the intersection of social and natural sciences.

The program provides travel funding, living allowance (EUR 3.800 – for every full month of stay), and visa cost for visiting fellows from Europe, and supports both fellows and their hosts, with bootcamps, mentors, visibility, community building and more! Applicants can find general information on the fellowship programme on the European applicants – NGI Enrichers page.

The 1st Call for Open ideas and Challenges was planned to select up to 18 applicants. The selected applicants will spend 3-6 months in the US or Canada to collaborate with the Host organisations, enhancing knowledge-sharing and establishing long-term collaborations on NGI technologies, services, and standards.

The NGI NGI Enrichers 1st Call for Open ideas and Challenges documents can be found here:

• Guide for applicants: all the information you need to know before applying
• Pitch deck template: presentation slides explaining your project proposal and your motivation to apply to NGI Enrichers

1st Call “Paired Teams”

Call open: 30 Nov 2022, Deadline: 31 Jan 2023.

The call is now closed!

The 1st Call for Paired teams selects up to 12 applicants. The selected applicants will spend 3-6 months – starting as of April 2023 – in the US or Canada to collaborate with the Host organisations, enhancing knowledge-sharing and establishing long-term collaborations on NGI technologies, services, and standards.

The fellow applicants for the Paired Teams call were asked to submit a proposal and they were also responsible to identify a US or Canadian host organisation willing to establish a research or innovation collaboration with them on NGI related topics.

The NGI Enrichers 1st Open Call for Paired Teams documents can be found here:

• Guide for applicants: contains all the information you applicants had to know before applying
• Statement of Commitment: the document that applicants had to sign with their hosting organisation

The applications were done through F6S and included the following mandatory documents: Statement of Commitment signed by the Host organisation; The applicant’s resume or CV; Text description or infographic explaining the applicant’s project proposal (one page/image).

Call for external evaluators

Call open: 4 Nov 2022, Deadline: 15 Dec 2022.

The call is now closed!

To apply as an evaluator, you must create an F6S profile and fill in this F6S online form (please upload your CV via the form)

The call will close on the 15th of December, 2022 at 23H59 (Brussels time)
More information on evaluators & ambassadors here >