Applications open for AWS Imagine Grant Program (UK and Ireland)

Categories

• The 2025 AWS Imagine Grant UK & Ireland categories and award details are as follows:
  • Go Further, Faster: available for both UK & Ireland based organisations
    • The Go Further, Faster award will provide support for think big, highly innovative projects that leverage the cloud. These projects will have the potential to produce scaled, repeatable solutions and may impact an entire industry or field. They will be forcing multipliers for organisations and will include the application of and/or seek integrations with advanced cloud services, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), high performance computing, internet of things (IoT), and more.
  • Pathfinder – Generative AI: available for UK based organisations only
    • The Pathfinder award provides support for highly innovative, mission-critical projects that leverage generative AI. A Pathfinder project will have the potential to produce a scaled, repeatable solution that directly accelerates mission achievement and may impact an entire industry or field. Projects in the Pathfinder category may include service types mentioned in the Go Further, Faster and Momentum to Modernise categories, but must include the use of generative AI as a required additional workload. Pathfinder projects must be building on existing data strategy and foundation, and the generative AI use case is already defined with implementation in the planning phase.

Funding Information

• Go Further, Faster 
  • Go Further, Faster awards packages may include:
    • Up to $50,000 USD of unrestricted financial support
    • Up to $16,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credit
    • Project implementation guidance from AWS technical specialist(s)
    • Access to AWS training and support
    • An opportunity for AWS marketing promotion
• Pathfinder – Generative AI
  • Pathfinder awards packages may include:
    • Up to $100,000 USD of unrestricted financial support
    • Up to $50,000 USD in AWS Promotional Credit
    • Project implementation support from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center
    • Access to AWS training and support
    • An opportunity for AWS marketing promotion

Eligible Projects

• Go Further, Faster 
  • Go Further, Faster awards may fund the following types of projects:
    • Initiatives that use artificial intelligence or machine learning tools on AWS (e.g., Helping prevent sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes with AI; Using Generative AI on AWS to Advance Global Literacy
    • Projects leveraging High Performance Computing (HPC) for mission areas such as genomics, conservation, health research, weather prediction, seismic imaging, and many other emerging applications
    • Data lake/warehouse and big data projects (e.g., Stop Soldier Suicide partners with Pariveda, AWS on mission to reduce suicide rates among US service members and veterans; UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS)
    • Organisations seeking to create an industry- or sector-wide solution or resource (e.g., Leveraging Generative AI to tackle global poverty)
• Pathfinder – Generative AI
  • The Pathfinder award may fund projects that integrate one or more generative AI services, such as:
    • Amazon Bedrock
    • Generative AI with Amazon SageMaker
    • AWS CodeWhisperer
    • AWS HealthScribe

Eligibility Criteria

• They are seeking proposals from nonprofit organisations for pilot projects, proofs of concept, and/or new or existing programs that utilise cloud technology.
• The AWS Imagine UK & Ireland Grant is limited to United Kingdom and Ireland nonprofit organisations with active registered charity number status. AWS welcomes all causes and mission areas to apply.
• At this time, however, educational institutions are excluded as they are outside of the AWS Imagine Grant covered funding areas.

For more information, visit AWS.