NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
Periodic calls for proposals awarding in-kind GPU compute, hardware and software to university faculty. Relevant to computational social science and to social work researchers running large-model or simulation work.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)No dollar value is published. Awards are cloud, hardware and/or software in kind — the page lists up to 30,000 NVIDIA H100 80GB GPU hours, up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, 2 NVIDIA DGX Spark systems, and access to pretrained AI models. No cash is disbursed.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The program runs as periodic calls for proposals rather than a fixed annual cycle. At fetch time the page stated the program is not accepting new applications, while affirming continued commitment to the research community; three call topics were listed (simulation and modeling; AI training and mode
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Restricted to full-time faculty members at an accredited academic institution that awards research degrees to PhD students. Doctoral students, postdocs, practitioners and nonprofits cannot apply directly. Previous recipients must submit their results through the program portal before reapplying.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- computing infrastructure · machine learning · simulation and modeling · generative ai
- Apply at
- https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/higher-education-research/academic-grant-program/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. 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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