Who can apply
WAYSCloud Impact is open to organizations registered in the EU or EEA whose work is research-driven and oriented toward public-interest output.
Eligible organizations
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Research institutions and university research groups. University faculty research groups, clinical research units, computational biology labs, climate science departments, materials science groups, computational social science teams, particle physics groups.
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Public-interest non-profits with a research mandate. Public health foundations, climate policy think tanks, biodiversity and conservation NGOs running monitoring programs, cancer research charities with open methodology, accessibility research initiatives, mental health research foundations.
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Public-sector research bodies and government research labs. National meteorological institutes, public health agencies running epidemiological modeling, statistics offices doing predictive analysis, environmental monitoring agencies, geological surveys, marine research institutes, road and infrastructure research bodies.
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Registered scientific consortia and inter-institutional collaborations. Multi-country epidemiology networks, EU-funded climate model intercomparison projects, cross-border biobank and genomics consortia, federated medical imaging collaborations, distributed astronomy and physics analysis efforts.
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Independent open research organizations with published, verifiable output. Open neuroscience labs, open epidemiology projects, open AI safety and alignment groups, citizen-science data analysis collectives, reproducibility and replication labs, open hardware research collectives.
Examples are illustrative, not exhaustive. The category matters more than whether your specific name appears here.
Geographic scope
Applicants must be registered in the European Union or European Economic Area — that is, an EU member state, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein. The workloads themselves may benefit research that crosses borders, but the applying organization's legal registration must fall within scope.
Country of registration is verified against the EU Business Register at application time using your EUID.
Out of scope
- Commercial research and development.
- Internal product workloads.
- Ad-hoc developer access or general compute experimentation.
- Workloads without a stated research output plan.
- Individual applications without an institutional applicant.
- Organizations registered outside the EU or EEA.
Meeting the criteria above lets you apply. From there, every application is read and reviewed individually — the work itself matters as much as the category.