{"id":59116,"date":"2025-08-11T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59116\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:15:08","slug":"apply-now-300000-for-climate-resilience-ai-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59116\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply Now: $300,000 for Climate Resilience AI Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u21d3 More from ICTworks<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Wayan Vota on August 11, 2025 &#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/climate-ai-funding.png\" alt=\"climate ai funding\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>Local communities must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/climate-change-adaptation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adapt to a changing climate and build long-term resilience<\/a>. This includes for example strengthening food security, enhancing health systems, and building coastal resilience in regions that are particularly vulnerable to climate impacts.<\/p>\n<p>We need to support pioneering projects that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leverage artificial intelligence<\/a> for climate adaptation in underserved, climate-vulnerable regions, like using AI to support smallholder farmers, build early warning systems, or translate complex risk data into community action plans.<\/p>\n<p>$300,000 for Climate Resilience AI Solutions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milkywire.com\/ai-for-climate-resilience-program\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Klarna\u2019s AI for Climate Resilience Program<\/a> seeks proposals from organizations working to reduce vulnerability of local communities to climate-related risks in low- and middle-income countries.<\/p>\n<p>Projects must demonstrate a clear use case for AI, a pathway to local ownership, and a commitment to responsible, collaborative innovation. Early-stage ideas are welcome too, especially from teams needing support to refine technical details or implementation plans.<\/p>\n<p>Grants of up to $300,000 will be awarded to selected projects that:<\/p>\n<p>Harness and elevate local knowledge. Discern, organize, and analyze community insights to generate concise, actionable information accessible both to large-scale actors (e.g. governments, NGOs) and the very communities that contributed it.<br \/>\nDevelop and demonstrate novel AI applications in real-world settings\u2014such as smartphone-based AI advisers for smallholder farmers to enhance resilience, or AI-powered climate-risk assessments for low-lying islands to inform infrastructure planning and relocation strategies.<br \/>\nImprove and enhance adoption, cost-effectiveness or sustainability of existing AI solutions for climate adaptation and resilience, including advancing ecosystem-wide knowledge by contributing open datasets, benchmarks, or best-practice insights that benefit the broader AI-for-adaptation community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milkywire.com\/ai-for-climate-resilience-program\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apply Now<\/a>: Deadline is August 31, 2025<\/p>\n<p>More Funding Opportunities<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/inveneo\/subscribe-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please sign up now <\/a>to get our email updates. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/funding-sources-african-entrepreneurs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn how to get startup funding<\/a> for your technology business, and the secrets to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/win-grant-funding-startup-investments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winning more contracts<\/a> from donors.<\/p>\n<p>We are constantly publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/start-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fundraising guidance<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/category\/funding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new funding opportunities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNow Read These Related Posts\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top:10px;border-top:1px solid #ccc;\">Filed Under: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/category\/funding\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Funding<\/a> <br \/>More About: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial Intelligence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/climate-change-adaptation\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Change Adaptation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/community-solutions\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Community Solutions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/grant-funding\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Funding<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b94941f6a8bc374844f084add8e01460\" class=\"avatar avatar-68 photo wpfla round-avatars \" width=\"68\" height=\"68\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wayan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wayan Vota<\/a> co-founded ICTworks. He also co-founded Technology Salon, Career Pivot, MERL Tech, ICTforAg, ICT4Djobs, ICT4Drinks, JadedAid, Kurante, OLPC News and a few other things.  Opinions expressed here are his own and do not reflect the position of his employer, any of its entities, or any ICTWorks sponsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u21d3 More from ICTworks &#13; By Wayan Vota on August 11, 2025 &#13; Local communities must adapt to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[733,32067,32068,1397,21931,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-59116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-climate-change-adaptation","10":"tag-community-solutions","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-grant-funding","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}