$40,000 Funding Opportunity for AI Innovators

The GenAI for Good Challenge: Cities Edition is inviting teams to develop open-source generative AI solutions addressing real-world urban challenges in three cities: Pristina (Kosovo), Skopje (North Macedonia) and Rivne (Ukraine).

The initiative will support innovative AI tools in the following areas:

• Pristina, Kosovo: Develop a public transport route-planning assistant that responds to city planners’ questions in Albanian, Serbian and English, providing sources for every answer.
• Skopje, North Macedonia: Build a green infrastructure assistant that extracts tree information from Macedonian-language permits and recommends updates to the city’s tree registry for staff review.
• Rivne, Ukraine: Create an energy advisory assistant that uses building profiles to recommend energy-efficiency upgrades and estimate potential payback periods.

IEEE Humanitarian Technologies will select nine finalist teams, three for each city. Each finalist will receive a $10,000 grant to develop a working prototype.

One winning team from each city will then be eligible for an additional innovation award of up to $30,000 to pilot its solution through December 31, 2027.

Applications are open to teams comprising at least two individuals. Participants can build their solutions using the GENIE AI framework, with all code, data and models required to be released under a permissive open-source licence such as Apache 2.0 or MIT.

Application deadline: December 13, 2026.

Apply for the GenAI for Good Challenge