Microsoft Security AI Academic Program - Academic Grants

Microsoft Research's global academic research program providing Azure AI compute credits and access to cutting-edge foundation models for research advancing AI safety, human-AI interaction, and scientific discovery. The program operates through periodic Calls for Proposals, workshops, and conferences. Focus areas include AI safety and responsibility (robustness, transparency, evaluation methods), human-AI interaction (trust, creativity, productivity, reducing digital divides), and scientific discovery (knowledge discovery, hypothesis generation, multimodal data generation). The program is evolving into the Agentic AI Research and Innovation (AARI) initiative focusing on intelligent agent systems.

Microsoft Elevate / Microsoft for Nonprofits Program is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft Elevate, encompassing the Microsoft for Nonprofits program, empowers nonprofit and social impact organizations with affordable, secure, and scalable technology, including cloud services, productivity tools, and AI capabilities. The initiative aims to enhance AI education for schools, colleges, and nonprofits, and to support 20 million people by upskilling them with AI tools.