3rd round of calls for Paired Teams, Open Ideas and Challenges

Calls open: 08 March 2024, Deadline: 10 May 2024.

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 3rd round of calls will select up to 25 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 applicants have 3 participation options for this round of calls:

• Paired Teams: The applicant can submit their proposal along with an organization who agrees to host the applicant. This organisation can be from the pool of host on the website or an external host. The agreement between the host and the applicant must be done prior the application process.
• Challenges: Hosting organisation from US and Canada – which have agreed to collaborate with the NGI Enrichers programme – defines specific research topics (challenges) related to the Next Generation Internet domain. The applicant can submit a proposal answering a challenge defined by the hosting organisation.
• Open ideas: Applicants submit a proposal around their ideas, products or services, selecting three preferred hosts among the list of organisations collaborating with the NGI Enrichers programme. The programme will facilitate the best match between the applicant and the host organisations based on the idea, product or service which has been proposed.
  Participants are encouraged to choose this track if none of the proposed challenges matches their envisioned project or skills.

The guide for applicants from the 3rd round of calls contains all the information you applicants had to know before applying.

Applicants should use the Search for hosts tool to find hosts that match their profile, Focus area and Application domain, and should check whether the host accepts applications from the track that interests you. More details on the proposed challenges can be found in each host’s individual profile, which can be accessed by clicking on a host’s name.

2nd Round of Calls for Paired Teams, Open Ideas and Challenges.

Calls open: 01 Jul 2023, Deadline: 30 September 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 guide for applicants from the 2nd round of calls contains all the information you applicants had to know before applying.

The 2nd Round of Calls will select up to 30 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.

For more information about the 2nd Round of Calls, please visit the Apply here page.

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 >