Google Cloud Research Credits
Google (Google for Education / Google Cloud)
Cloud computing credits for faculty, PhD students and postdocs to run research workloads on Google Cloud, useful for large administrative-data analyses, text analysis and other computationally heavy social research.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)In-kind credits; the page does not state credit amounts.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Apply through the page's form; no cycle or deadline is stated. Credits must be activated within 60 days of the project start date and expire 365 days from redemption or when used up.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Faculty, PhD students and postdocs at accredited higher-education institutions or eligible nonprofit research institutions in approved countries (60+ listed).
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- cloud computing · research credits · computational research · data analysis infrastructure · in-kind computing
- Apply at
- https://edu.google.com/programs/credits/research/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-09-23. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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