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Open Source Standards Participation Grants

Agency

An agency based in Germany

In context

This call is open to individuals, non-profits and social enterprises and 1 other. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country. The funder accepts early-stage applicants.

Climate Software and Data grants

Summary

This grant supports open source software maintainers to participate in standards-setting work at international bodies like IETF, W3C, and ISO, bridging the gap between formal standards processes and real-world implementation. It targets individuals and teams working on digital infrastructure and interoperability in the open source ecosystem.

Summary by Raise Lens from the official notice · 9 Oct 2026Accurate?

About this grant

The Sovereign Tech Standards network is a pilot programme run by the funder that supports a cohort of up to ten open source maintainers to participate in standards development at the IETF, W3C, and ISO. The programme addresses the gap whereby open standards bodies are open in principle but practically inaccessible to independent maintainers, who lack the time, funding and process familiarity to take part, despite having implementation experience that standards processes often lack. …