IX-WAI Early Career Development Grant 2027 (up to £1,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 4, 2027

Applications are open for the IX-WAI Early Career Development Grant 2027. The I-X Women in AI Network (IX-WAI) supplies Early Career Development Grants of up to £1,000 to girls and non-binary people who’re at the moment working in AI or want to enter the sector.

These grants are supposed to help convention attendance, workshops, coaching, and different skilled growth alternatives. This initiative displays the dedication to offering extra help for ladies and non-binary people in AI.

Grant

• The grant can cowl registration charges and journey bills for conferences, workshops, tutorials, coaching classes, and different actions that allow candidates to current their analysis, increase their skilled networks, and develop new abilities in AI.

Eligibility

• Open to girls and non-binary people at Master’s, PhD, or postdoctoral stage at Imperial College London who’re occupied with studying about AI or are at the moment working within the subject.
• Applicants who’ve already been awarded this grant should not eligible to apply once more.

Selection Criteria

• The proposed exercise ought to have AI at its core, together with its purposes in scientific analysis and associated disciplines.
• The proposed exercise ought to exhibit a significant impression on the applicant’s educational, analysis or skilled growth.
• The abilities and competencies to be developed by the exercise needs to be clearly recognized.
• Timing and profession growth: Why is that this exercise significantly related at this stage of the applicant’s profession? Why is now the suitable time to pursue it? Are there different funding alternatives out there to the applicant?
• Knowledge sharing and alignment with WAI’s imaginative and prescient.

Application

The application course of consists of two phases. For the pre-choice stage, candidates should full the net type, offering all the knowledge required to justify the requested funds and clarify the aim and anticipated impression of the proposed exercise. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to a 15 minute on-line interview (anticipated to happen in final week of January), consisting of a 5 minute presentation adopted by 10 minutes of questions from the panel.

To apply for a grant in the course of the pre-choice stage, candidates should full a short on-line type and supply the next info:

• Requested quantity: Up to £1,000, with a totally justified funds detailing the anticipated prices (e.g., convention registration charges, workshop charges, journey, and different bills). If the utmost funds of £1,000 doesn’t cowl all of the bills for the exercise, please justify how you’ll cowl the remaining prices.
• Departmental account quantity (please enter your supervisor’s/mentor’s departmental F account quantity for the fund switch).
• Purpose of the grant: A one-sentence abstract of the proposed exercise and its goal.
• Brief proposal (up to 300 phrases), together with:
  • A transparent description of the deliberate exercise.
  • The major motivation for collaborating within the exercise.
• Expected impression on profession growth (up to 100 phrases), describing the anticipated studying outcomes and the way the exercise will contribute to your analysis {and professional} development.
• Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to IX-WAI Early Career Development Grant.