The EF’s Educational Secretariat staff is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural PhD Fellowship Program, a pioneering initiative aimed toward empowering and increasing the frontiers of Ethereum-related educational analysis, by supporting Ethereum-related educational work led by PhD college students.
Spherical Scope
The scope of this spherical contains work that’s broadly related to college students excited about pursuing analysis which can be on the intersection of Institutional Design, Company Governance, Political Financial, Decentralized AI, and Ethereum. We’re looking for proposals that align with the RFP subjects listed on our webpage.
We encourage researchers to make use of these RFPs as a place to begin, and to assume creatively about how their work can generate significant insights and contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem.
Utility Necessities
- This system will award 7-8 Fellowships, every with a $24,000 USD stipend over one 12 months.
- Proposals are due 23:59 AoE April 1st, 2026.
- All candidates should be actively enrolled right into a PhD Program from a college or educational institute.
- Initiatives should produce formal educational analysis revealed in venues corresponding to conferences or journals.
- Analysis output should be open-access with a free and permissive license.
- All purposes will need to have a written proposal in PDF format:
- Proposals should be in English.
- Proposals adhere to this template.
- Proposals should embrace an applicant profile.
- Proposals should embrace a public repository or hyperlink to revealed work.
- Functions are chosen for funding on a case-by-case foundation. Chances are you’ll submit a couple of software so long as every proposal is exclusive and meets the necessities of the RFP merchandise that they’re linked to.
- Selections might be emailed 6 weeks after the appliance deadline.
- For extra assist or inquiries concerning the submission course of, please attain out to academic-grants@ethereum.org. For additional data, go to our web site.
