# Would Julia or any of its packages be eligible for Sovereign Technology Fund money?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-julia-or-any-of-its-packages-be-eligible-for-sovereign-technology-fund-money/115317>\
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**Created:** [June 7, 2024, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-julia-or-any-of-its-packages-be-eligible-for-sovereign-technology-fund-money/115317 "2024-06-07T09:45:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![xiaoxi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a9adbd/32.png) [@xiaoxi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaoxi)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-julia-or-any-of-its-packages-be-eligible-for-sovereign-technology-fund-money/115317/1 "2024-06-07T09:45:54Z")

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Has anyone applied for or at least evaluated the possibility of applying for money from the Sovereign Technology Fund?

Fortran, Python Package Index and Mamba are some of the funded projects.

> **[Technologies | Sovereign Tech Fund](https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech)**

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-julia-or-any-of-its-packages-be-eligible-for-sovereign-technology-fund-money/115317/2 "2024-06-07T12:47:44Z")

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Is there someone from the organization you can put me in touch with? What is the average award size?

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**Author:** ![sdanisch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sdanisch/32/1406_2.png) [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-julia-or-any-of-its-packages-be-eligible-for-sovereign-technology-fund-money/115317/3 "2024-06-07T15:09:32Z")

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We applied with Makie and are in the final round.  
Minimal budget is 250k and it goes up to a million or so.

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**Author:** ![xiaoxi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a9adbd/32.png) [@xiaoxi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaoxi)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 7:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-julia-or-any-of-its-packages-be-eligible-for-sovereign-technology-fund-money/115317/4 "2024-06-08T07:11:37Z")

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Explaining the process would be a very interesting talk at JuliaCon, so that developers of Julia and other packages can learn from your experience.

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**Author:** ![xiaoxi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a9adbd/32.png) [@xiaoxi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaoxi)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-julia-or-any-of-its-packages-be-eligible-for-sovereign-technology-fund-money/115317/5 "2024-06-17T14:15:22Z")

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Sovereign Tech Fund accepts new submissions.

> **[Submit your proposals: What you need to know STF’s revised criteria…](https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/new-proposals-criteria-process-timeline)**

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**Author:** ![xiaoxi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a9adbd/32.png) [@xiaoxi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaoxi)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-julia-or-any-of-its-packages-be-eligible-for-sovereign-technology-fund-money/115317/6 "2025-10-22T17:28:15Z")

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I’m surprised the Sovereign Technology Agency also funds projects unrelated to internet infrastructure. If R gets funding, there’s a better chance that Julia or some important Julia libraries could also receive it in the future.

> **[Newsletter: New Technology Investments, Sessions at Open Source…](https://www.sovereign.tech/news/newsletter-october-2025)**

> **[R Project | Sovereign Tech Agency](https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/r-project)**