2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP
Dec 9, 2025
Overview
[Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Ideal projects will have co-PIs with expertises from both the humanities and AI and will address research questions from both domains. This request is open to universities and non-profits globally.
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Proposal Due Date |
March 13, 2026, 11:59PM EDT |
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Notification of Decision |
Summer 2026 |
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Funding Levels |
Level I: $100,000 – $299,999 Level II: $300,000 – $800,000 |
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Estimated Number of Awards |
15 – 25 |
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Previous awards under program |
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Period of Performance |
Level I: 1 – 2 years Level II: 1 – 3 years |
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Informational Webinars |
January 20, 2026, 1PM EST. Register here. |
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Link to FAQ |
What is HAVI?
Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) is a philanthropic initiative which intends to spur innovative, domain-specific research outcomes from humanities scholars through the integral application of AI-inspired tools and techniques as well as produce insights from the humanities that will advance the development of AI.
Current AI models struggle with multilingual contexts, multimodal datasets, and the nuances of historical and cultural diversity, hindering their application in humanities disciplines. HAVI aims to address these limitations by fostering interdisciplinary collaborations between AI and humanities researchers, focused on developing and applying new AI techniques to answer complex and compelling humanities research questions.
Our approach expects humanities scholars to play integral roles in AI development, while AI researchers gain deeper understanding of data, models, and problem spaces from humanistic perspectives. This collaborative framework aims to produce breakthrough results that advance both AI capabilities and humanities scholarship.