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A list of microgrant programs for your good ideas
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Fundamental research/AI/NLP projects #70

Closed LifeIsStrange closed 1 year ago

LifeIsStrange commented 1 year ago

So I am understanding it right that the most important fields of research have not microgrants funding?

AI grant is (was?) dead https://aigrant.org/

NLNet Foundation seemed great except it require to open source the code which is a no-no... (why would I work on something groundbreaking and get zero economic and executive reward on it?)

Maybe scifounders is fit for the purpose? Hope it doesn't require a diploma/license nor physical presence.

Basically that issue is about the need of including more grants for fundamental research (could be medecine too), that does not require open sourcing work.

matkoniecz commented 1 year ago

why would I work on something groundbreaking and get zero economic and executive reward on it?

Getting grant is a nonzero economic reward (and there are some other reasons why open source may be a good idea)

So I am understanding it right that the most important fields of research have not microgrants funding?

If you find some existing microgrant issue, feel free to open issue. But this issue seems to be complaint that grant is not existing, and therefore not actionable here. It is "A list of microgrant programs" not "List of requested microgrant programs" Not even if it is supposedly "the most important fields of research".

matkoniecz commented 1 year ago

BTW, there is

If you're interested in starting your own microgrant program, I've also created a few templates, which you're welcome to use.

in the readme.

LifeIsStrange commented 1 year ago

Getting grant is a nonzero economic reward

It is non-zero and that's fine for many projects, but for long term high risk projects that is often unsufficent.

I just wanted to show visibility for this lack of grants (well there is at least one). Thanks for answering.

BTW I'm wondering if there is a community crowdfunded grant fund (e.g like kickstarter and patreon) but for fundamental research google seems to have some results such as experiment.com https://www.thebalancesmb.com/top-sites-for-crowdfunding-scientific-research-985238