UAA Alaska AI Solutions Consortium RAISE Mini Grants 2026-2027

The University of Alaska Anchorage Alaska AI Solutions Consortium is accepting 2026-2027 RAISE Mini Grant community partner project ideas that use artificial intelligence to address a problem in Alaska. The program is part of UAA’s Rural AI Solutions & Engagement Project and is funded by the National Science Foundation under Award #2433241.

Community partner deadline: September 21, 2026, for the partner Statement of Need. A matched UAA faculty member then develops the proposal with the community partner, and the full proposal deadline is October 7, 2026. The controlling UAA page does not publish a deadline clock time or time zone, so Atlas does not infer one.

Eligible community partners may be any Alaska organization outside the university, including large or small businesses, Alaska Native organizations, K-12 education organizations, government entities, nonprofits, and UA research centers. Community partners submit a problem or project idea that can be addressed using AI. UAA then matches the partner with faculty unless the partner is already working with UAA faculty; the full proposal is submitted by UAA faculty.

The official page describes the funding as seed funding to encourage applied AI research and collaboration, but it does not publish a per-project award ceiling, required match, or cost share. Atlas therefore does not infer those terms.

Atlas Opportunity Score: 90/100. This is a strong Alaska innovation opportunity for healthcare, rural and Tribal organizations, schools, governments, nonprofits, and other community partners with a well-defined AI use case. N9+ Fit Score: 58/100 conditional. A legitimate Nonagon N9+ role could exist where an Alaska healthcare or community partner proposes an AI research project that genuinely needs remotely collected examination or physiologic data, but the current call does not establish device allowability or a healthcare-specific funding preference.