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THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITIES EARLY CAREER CONFERENCE GRANTS

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Application Deadline: 23 April 2024, 16:00 UTC

LOCATION: United Kingdom

Grants are available for early career researchers at member universities to attend and take part in conferences. Early Career Conference Grants help to ensure that emerging researchers – and the universities that employ them – can benefit from the valuable opportunity of attending and taking part in in-person conferences in Commonwealth countries. 

ELIGIBILITY:

Be an early career researcher/academic at an ACU member university. 

Be within 7 years of the start of their academic (research/teaching) career, with the exception of those who have had career breaks. A career break is a period of time out from employment for personal or professional reasons, including to care for children. 

Identify a conference that they would like to attend in a Commonwealth country, taking place between August 2024 and February 2025. 

Review the FAQs/Application Guidance.

Submit an application through the online application form. 

If you do not already have a MyACU account, please ensure that you first register for an account here, then follow the instructions in the registration email to log in to the system before accessing the application form when applications open.

BENEFIT:

​Grants are a maximum of GBP 2,000 which can be used to cover: 

Conference registration fee 

Flights 

Accommodation 

Visa costs 

Travel and health insurance 

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TURN.IO CHAT FOR GenAI ACCELERATOR GRANTS PROGRAMME

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Application Deadline: 31st of March 2024

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

Helping organizations build transformative AI-enabled Chat Solutions to improve Education, Health, and Economic Mobility. The first Chat for Impact: GenAI Accelerator will amplify the impact of ten organizations, assisting them in creating and implementing innovative LLM-powered chat solutions in the fields of education, healthcare, and economic mobility.

ELIGIBILITY:

They are looking for impact-driven organizations working in health, education, and economic mobility with a well-defined theory of change or business case.

Organizations should be committed to leveraging AI to support a secure, private and personalized chat service.

They should demonstrate a strong commitment to building real-world applications and possess the organizational capacity to engage in the accelerator program and sustain the service long-term.

Candidates for the program need to have existing digital services in production (not necessarily AI-powered).

BENEFIT:

Grant funding to the value of $ 35,000 with a further $ 50,000 each for the top three best-performing organizations.

Access to a share of $ 500,000 in openai API credits

Technical, strategic and governance support from expert advisors at openai and Turn.io

Mentorship & guidance as they build their AI-enabled chat service

Peer learning opportunities from the broader Chat for Impact Accelerator Alumni

Post-program support to sustain and grow momentum

Turn.io software license for six months valued at $ 3,000

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