AI4Gov-X Cascade Funding Call - first edition [AI4Gov-X-FSTP-CALL-01-2026]
Run by AI4GovAccelerate · Can apply alone
What this call funds
This call gives direct financial support to individual students, not companies, to help cover costs linked to the AI4Gov-X master's programme called MagiX. It covers travel, accommodation and participation fees for students joining the master's course or related extracurricular activities, and it also provides stipend top ups for students who secure an internship after the programme. Each person can receive up to 5,000 euros.
artificial intelligence · education skills
Who wins this
An enrolled or accepted student in the MagiX master's course or an AI4Gov-X extracurricular activity, who is a national of an eligible European country and needs help with education costs or has landed an internship.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €5k
- Submission
- Multiple cut-offs (rolling call with several deadlines)
- Cut-off dates (5)
- 30 Jun 2026 · 31 Aug 2026 · 31 Oct 2026 · 31 Dec 2026 · 28 Feb 2027
- Type of action
- Cascade funding
- Partners
- Not required. You can apply on your own.
- Funding rate
- up to 50% of eligible costs for priority 1, within the 5000 EUR cap
- Support to third parties
- Direct financial support to individual beneficiaries, maximum EUR 5000 per beneficiary under either priority.
- Also required
- Applicants must be natural persons, nationals of an EU country or an eligible non-EU country under the Digital Europe Programme, and either enrolled or accepted into the MagiX master's course or AI4Gov-X extracurricular activities, with priority 2 also requiring proof of unemployment and an internship contract with a host organisation in an eligible country.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Cybersecurity · Deep Tech