Grants Archive • Stanford Accelerator for Learning

How we work: Research and innovation grants

Research and Innovation Grants

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning grants funding to faculty, staff, and students to develop projects that will contribute to scientific knowledge and have a lasting impact on learners.

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning encourages and enables scholars and students to seize new opportunities in data, technology, and the brain to improve learning outcomes, and therefore life outcomes. We focus on learning challenges most in need of new discoveries, evidence, and solutions, and where we believe Stanford can make the most difference.

To amplify the impact of Stanford research on learners, we support research and design projects through grant funding. Grant funding works in parallel with Accelerator Studio supports to enable the development and impact of research that substantively improves learning.

For information on how to support our grant-making, please visit the Giving page.

Open opportunities

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AI + Learning Impact Grants

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning is launching a round of impact grants to catalyze transformative innovations in learning.

Funding type: Impact grant

Eligibility: Faculty

Closed opportunities

AI in Teaching and Learning at Stanford: Thought Leadership

Advancing Stanford’s thought leadership in AI and learning, thi award program funded scholarly work in two sub-tracks: AI and critical thinking, and AI and creativity. Projects involve intellectual products of any form ranging from writing to art to software.

Funding type: Prize

Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students

AI in Teaching and Learning: Innovation with Evidence Grants

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning has accepted twelve proposals to design and study innovative AI approaches in teaching and learning at Stanford, while building evidence to inform practice beyond Stanford.

Funding type: Seed grant

Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students

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Create+AI Challenge

The Create+AI Challenge invited educators, researchers, technologists, and students to imagine how artificial intelligence can advance learning, augment teaching, and expand opportunity, always with humans at the center.

Funding type: Challenge grant

Eligibility: Educators, researchers, technologists, nonprofits, and students

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Tequity in Learning

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning has accepted 11 proposals for projects at the intersection of technology, equity, and learning.

Funding type: Seed grant
Initiative: Equity in Learning
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students

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Joyful Learning

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning has accepted 21 proposals for research or design projects that will explore the mechanisms and impact of joyful learning.

Funding type: Seed grant
Initiative: Digital Learning
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students

Learning through Creation with Generative AI

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) invited research proposals advancing learning through creation with generative AI.

Funding type: Seed grant
Initiative: Digital Learning
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students

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People Who Help Other People Learn (PWHOPL)

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning has funded 11 research projects that foster new understandings of how to use technology for rapid capability development to support PWHOPL.

Funding type: Seed grant
Initiative: Adult and Workforce Learning
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students

Igniting Transformative Approaches to Ethnic Studies

The Stanford Accelerator for Learning is funding exploratory projects, developing partnerships, and preliminary scholarship that are poised to make substantial impacts on how ethnic studies is taught and integrated into K-12 schooling across California.

Funding type: Seed grant
Initiative: Equity in Learning
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students

Understanding Learning Differences in Context

Interdisciplinary research projects on learning differences and/or the future of special education, funded up to $80,000 for a one year project.

Funding type: Seed grant
Initiative: Learning Differences and the Future of Special Education
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff