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FUTURE OF LEARNING MASTERCARD FOUNDATION EDTECH STARTUP FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

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Application Deadline: February 17, 2024

LOCATION: Nigeria

The program provides a unique opportunity to collaborate with a network of experienced professionals with the same goal: to drive innovation in the edtech sector. Hands-on mentorship and resources will be provided to help you get your startup to the next level. Interested innovators are to apply below. In this stage, the Edtech solutions will be assessed on the following criteria: Problem/Solution Fit, Founder Potential, Business Model Fit, and Traction.

ELIGIBILITY:

Startups must be Africa focused and incorporated in Nigeria. They should be building solutions that address challenges across K-12, tertiary education and vocational skills training.

Your Edtech Solution must posses these two qualities:

EdTech Solution Based: Must have verifiable users aligned with our accelerator’s focus: education access, student learning, school management, and teacher/trainer effectiveness.

Inclusive Teams: Applicants should have a balanced team, passionate about education. Female founders of EdTech solution companies are strongly encouraged to apply

BENEFIT:

Startups that make it into our accelerator programme enjoy the following benefits:

Equity Free Funding: Qualified startups are entitled to $100k in equity free funding over the course of the accelerator programme.

Support & Mentoring: Startups can tap into our multidisciplinary experts for design, product, and tech optimization.

Investor Network: Startups, through this programme would be exposed to investors to help scale their products

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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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