Fast Funding for COVID-19 Science
If you are a scientist at an academic institution currently working on a COVID-19 related project and in need of funding, we invite you to apply for a Fast Grant. Fast Grants are $10k to $500k and decisions are made in under 48 hours. If we approve the grant, you'll receive payment as quickly as your university can receive it.
Space in Response to COVID-19 Outbreakin Italy 2020, ESA, Italy
The main objectives of this AO are:
Help citizens and health or educational professionals living in Italy to deal with the challenges of the coronavirus outbreak;
Support the development and the adoption of services in healthcare and education to sustain the Italian community in reacting to the coronavirus outbreak;
Demonstrate the benefit provided by the utilization of space-assets integrated with other innovative technologies in these extraordinary circumstances;
Offer the opportunity to economic operators to deploy and demonstrate application solutions based on space for the benefit of citizens, local authorities and enterprises.
Open Road Alliance Response to COVID-19 2020, USA
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the impact sector has reached natural disaster proportions in its scope and scale, which means that the global need for our ‘emergency’ capital vastly outstrips our available resources. Given this reality, we have decided to use our limited resources to best serve the sector under the following circumstances․
Health Security and Pandemics Challenge 2020, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the latest in a series of infectious disease emergencies, including cholera, Ebola, SARS, Chikungunya, HIV/AIDS, and influenza. While scientists and drug developers, with support from governments and multilateral organizations, have been rushing to produce, test, and deliver vaccines and treatments, tech innovators also have a crucial role to play, both in the near term and to prevent and mitigate future disease outbreaks.
COVID-19 Solutions Fund 2020, Mozilla Open Source Support Program, USA
Mozilla is announcing today the creation of a COVID-19 Solutions Fund as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS). Through this fund, we will provide awards of up to $50,000 each to open source technology projects which are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in some way.
Call for Code Global Challenge 2020, International Business Machines Corporation, USA
COVID-19, which is caused by the novel coronavirus, has revealed the limits of the systems we take for granted in a very short period of time. Whether it's the massive increase in demand for information during a time of crisis, educating children when schools are closed, or helping communities best distribute limited resources, technology has a pivotal role to play. Through Call for Code, you can see your idea deployed by a global partner ecosystem.