Funding & Grants

Are you active in or are researching European digital grassroots movements, and would like to help us in the effort of making knowledge around them openly accessible for everyone?

We are excited to work with you – and are happy to support you in your endeavour.

Our grant awards are open to researchers as well as the creative computing community outside of academia (“Innovators”) who want to collect and disseminate knowledge about these movements. You will need an e-COST-profile, and also be willing to sign up to GRADE, in order to ensure that our support towards your work is transparent.

COST, and by that our action, is committed to FAIR and Open Science principles (link FAIR data – Wikipedia), and Open Access to your work is strongly encouraged.

Inquiring especially about creative actors, we are committed to respect author’s rights to their works, and strongly recommend everyone to embrace Creative Commons licenses (link Creative Commons license – Wikipedia) and make sure to indicate them in any artwork used, so they may be reusable by future work and research for the same purpose.

Here is an overview of our grant oppurtunities, click the links to learn more:

Short-Term Scientific Missions

We cover your travel and expenses when researching a GRADE-relevant subject in a different country – for up to 21 days!

Virtual Mobility

Financial support for remote research and projects affiliated with any of our COST Member Institutions in primary or near neighbouring countries.

Conference Attendance

We help you spread the word about your work by covering expenses to 3rd party conferences – with an extra special track for Young Researchers and Innovators!

Virtual Networking Support

Do you have a new, unconventional idea how to collaborate virtually but need financial support to achieve this? Let us know, we’re curious!