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Programme : AI Accountability Grants
Organisation : European AI & Society Fund
Deadline : 06/01/2025
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Type d'information : Financement
Type de programme : Appels à projets de recherche fondamentale/ou de base (hors financement de l’Union Européenne)
Description courte : The European AI & Society Fund invites applications for our AI Accountability Grants: up to €200,000 in funding for bold, adventurous projects that explore how to hold those responsible to account for harms caused by the use of AI in Europe. 
Description complète : Who can apply? Organisations and coalitions that want to promote social justice by establishing accountability over the use of AI systems in Europe – at either European, national or local level. You do not have to be a technology expert to apply.    
How much will we award? Grants will be between €10,000 and €200,000  
How long are the grants? The duration is flexible, but activities must be completed by December 2026.  
What’s the deadline? Concept notes must be submitted by 6 January 2025 23:59 CET. The selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application by 24 February 2025. We will issue our final decisions by 24 March 2025.  
Where? Organisations should be registered and carry out their work in one or more of the following countries: the EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK.  
The focus of the AI Accountability Grants is to support work that will contribute to addressing how AI affects people and society.    
The Fund does not prescribe which approaches, tactics and regulations to use. We have also not specified geographies or issue areas to prioritise – we want to hear from organisations and coalitions in the field where there are opportunities to make change happen.   
Examples of work that could be funded:  
Conducting research to identify provisions in labour and human rights laws that may provide a path to justice for communities harmed by algorithmic decisions in the workplace or when accessing welfare benefits.  
Using transparency mechanisms to find evidence of AI harms that can be used in future campaigns, complaints, and legal cases.  
Preparation of complaints on high-risk systems, to be submitted under the AI Act once it is in force. 
Drafting and submitting complaints under EU regulations, such as the GDPR, that challenge the unlawful use of personal data for training AI systems, for example in healthcare.  
Developing experimental litigation strategies to limit the harmful environmental impact of data centres, including pre-litigation research, evidence gathering and legal fees.   
Strategies to challenge corporate power through antitrust mechanisms, such as investigations by competition authorities or actions under the Digital Markets Act. This could involve research to provide evidence to regulators and cooperation with consumer bodies.  
Developing strategies to increase protections and close gaps where analysis shows that legal protections are missing, such as in policing and migration  
Building coalitions and bridges to communities affected by AI harms and co-designing accountability strategies.   
Creating connections to specialists (such as consumer movements, or technical, legal, standards or access to information fields) to develop accountability strategies.  
Please note this list is illustrative only and we encourage applicants to propose your own approaches.   
 
Critères d’admission/attribution : The European AI & Society Fund supports organisations and coalitions from across Europe that want to ensure that Artificial Intelligence better serves people and society. Some of our grantees have previous expertise working on AI, digital rights and technology. Others represent particular communities or interests, including racial justice, migration, disability, climate, and health, and want to address how AI is affecting their work.

For the AI Accountability Grants we particularly encourage applications from organisations and coalitions with prior experience in securing accountability in adjacent social justice fields. Applications that pursue justice for real-world harms of affected individuals and communities will be prioritised. We aim to ensure the final cohort of grantees is balanced in terms of geographic and thematic contributions (see below how we make decisions).

Eligibility requirements
· Organisations must be registered and carry out their work in one or more of the following geographies: EU, EEA, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland and the UK.
· If you want to apply in partnership with other organisations, please choose one lead applicant who represents the coalition in this process
· Organisations must have non-profit status
 
Financement : Applicants can apply for a grant between €10,000 and €200,000, and the total funding we will allocate through this call is €2 million. 
 
Zone géographique: Europe
Contact interne ULB : Rachel Leproult - Dragana Petrovic - Amal Akheyar - Giulia Sandri - Sarah Di Giglio
ulb-europe@ulb.be
Contact externe :
https://europeanaifund.org/newspublications/ai-accountability-grants/
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Discipline(s) scientifique(s) de l’appel : Droit et criminologie, Economie/ gestion, Etudes européennes, Information/ communication, Sciences politiques/ relations internationales, Sociologie/ Anthropologie/ Sciences du travail
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