Edinburgh Festivals Responsible AI Accessibility Challenge
We are excited to open the Edinburgh Festivals Responsible AI Accessibility Challenge – a unique opportunity offering up to £220,000 for interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative AI solutions that improve accessibility for D/deaf audiences at the Edinburgh Festivals. Join our information session this coming Monday, 7 September 2026, to hear from the BRAID team along with our colleagues at the Edinburgh Festivals and Deaf Action.
Find out more and apply by 27 October 2026.
Creative Commissions: A Promise in Return
We are inviting seven UK-based creatives to explore Responsible AI not as a technical checklist or a set of rules, but as a question of relationships, commitments and obligations: what we ask of technology, what technology asks of us, what we owe to one another and to the world we share.
‘A Promise in Return’ invites practitioners from creative fields of endeavour, from artists, designers and performers to architects and urban designers, craftspeople, artisans, writers and poets and professions we haven’t anticipated. We’re looking for curious and unexpected work that challenges, complicates and reimagines Responsible AI, in any medium, for presentation at the Edinburgh Festivals in August 2027.
Find out more and apply by 2 November 2026
BRAID Research Fellowships
Applications for our 2026 round of fellowships is now open, with £620,000 available to fund a series of collaborative projects that pair arts and humanities researchers with non-academic partners to advance responsible AI in practice. Applicants can either bring their own partner organisation or respond to one of two challenges set by The National Lottery Heritage Fund (embedding environmental intelligence into heritage funding decisions) and Framestore (exploring contemporary forms of artistry in visual effects production).
