The EF’s Educational Secretariat workforce 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 consists of work that’s broadly related to college students concerned with pursuing analysis which are on the intersection of Institutional Design, Company Governance, Political Financial, Decentralized AI, and Ethereum. We’re in search of 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 suppose 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 yr.
- 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 comparable to conferences or journals.
- Analysis output should be open-access with a free and permissive license.
- All purposes should have a written proposal in PDF format:
- Proposals should be in English.
- Proposals adhere to this template.
- Proposals should embody an applicant profile.
- Proposals should embody a public repository or hyperlink to revealed work.
- Purposes are chosen for funding on a case-by-case foundation. Chances are you’ll submit multiple utility so long as every proposal is exclusive and meets the necessities of the RFP merchandise that they’re linked to.
- Selections will probably be emailed 6 weeks after the applying deadline.
- For extra help or inquiries in regards to the submission course of, please attain out to academic-grants@ethereum.org. For additional info, go to our web site.
