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THE WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (TWAS) AWARDS

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Application Deadline: 31 March 2024

LOCATION: Italy

The TWAS Awards (previosuly called ‘TWAS Prizes’) are awarded to individual scientists from developing countries in recognition of an outstanding contribution to scientific knowledge in nine fields of sciences and/or to the application of science and technology to sustainable development. The Academy provides nine awards to individual scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least 10 years. The cycle of the TWAS Awards is now every two years.

ELIGIBILITY:

Candidates for a TWAS Award must be scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least ten years immediately prior to their nomination. They must meet at least one of the following qualifications:

Scientific research achievement of outstanding significance for the development of scientific thought.

Outstanding contribution to the application of science and technology to sustainable development.

BENEFIT:

TWAS provides nine awards of USD 10,000 in the following fields: Agriculture, Nutrition & Food Systems Sciences; Biological Sciences; Chemical Sciences; Earth, Climate & Environmental Sciences; Engineering & Computer Sciences; Mathematical Sciences; Medical & Health Sciences; Physics, Astronomy & Space Sciences; Social Sciences*.

Each award is accompanied by a plaque.

Awards are usually presented on a special occasion, often coinciding with the General Meeting of TWAS.

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OPEN AI SUPERALIGNMENT FAST GRANTS

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Application Deadline: February 18, 2024

LOCATION: USA

OpenAI is launching $10M in grants to support technical research towards the alignment and safety of superhuman AI systems, including weak-to-strong generalization, interpretability, scalable oversight, and more

ELIGIBILITY:

Individuals and institutions in most other countries are expected to apply.

No prior experience working on alignment is required; we are actively looking to support researchers who are excited to work on alignment for the first time.

While they expect more fully-formed research projects for larger grants, they’re open to more exploratory smaller grants, e.g. for a graduate student who wants to explore working on alignment and is considering a few different directions, but doesn’t have a fully-formed project yet.

Excellent machine learning researchers and engineers who haven’t worked on alignment before, but want to take a crack at some of these research directions can apply.

BENEFIT:

They are offering $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers.

For graduate students, they are sponsoring a one-year $150K OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship: $75K in stipend and $75K in compute and research funding.

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