Imminent Research Grants - 2nd edition - €100,000 to fund language technology innovators

Imminent was founded to help innovators who share the goal of making it easier for everyone living in our multilingual world to understand and be understood by all others.

Each year, Imminent will allocate €100,000 to fund five original research projects with grants of €20,000 each to explore the most advanced frontiers in the world of language services.

Imminent expects the call to appeal to startuppers, researchers, innovators, authors, university labs, organizations and companies. A committee made up of leading experts will evaluate the proposals.

For any questions related to the grants or your application, you can contact [email protected].

The form to apply will include a 250-word summary to submit detailing the problem to be solved, the qualifications that make the proposer a suitable candidate to solve it, and the deliverables (paper, product, project, other – at this stage there are no specific rules about how to write the project: state of the art, detailed info concerning the materials and methods, and about its length)

You can apply here.

The project can either be part of an existing research project on which you are already working or a standalone project focusing on one of the proposed topics.

Funding criteria

5 grants – €20,000 each for 1 year.

Choose your topic

5 grants from these topics:  Language economics – Linguistic data – Machine learning algorithms for translation – Human-computer interaction – The neuroscience of language.

Applications can be made in any field of research.  

Who can apply

This call is open to startuppers, researchers, innovators, authors, university labs, organizations and companies.

Location

You can apply from anywhere in the world.

Submission deadline

February 28, 2023.

Selection criteria

A committee of leading experts will evaluate the proposals. 

Initially, 20 candidates will be selected for the second evaluation phase and will be asked to send a 2 minutes video in which the researcher makes a short speech of his/her project. Candidates may be contacted for a 10-minute interview if the committee requires further information.

Participants will be asked to publish a paper about their project on the Imminent Research Center website within 1 year of the final presentation.

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Background and context

Imminent is the Translated Research Center. Translated is on a mission to open up language to everyone, using a powerful combination of expert human translators and machine intelligence, and providing curated localization solutions and tools to 212,279 customers worldwide.

Our mission

We are on a mission to open up language to everyone. We want to live in a world where everyone can understand and be understood. We truly believe that an awareness of languages is an integral part of any respectful and open-minded approach to intercultural relations and that any international project can be improved if it has a way to express itself in the languages with which it seeks genuine contact.