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Cooperative AI Research Fellowship – Referral Form

The Cooperative AI Research Fellowship (CAIRF) is currently accepting applications for our 3-month research fellowship program, and we are offering a $200 to anyone who refers a candidate to us by filling in this form, who we end up accepting into the fellowship program.

How does it work?

After you fill in this form with your contact information and details about the individual(s) you're referring, the referred candidate submits their application through our regular application process, mentioning your referral. If your referral is accepted into the fellowship, we'll contact you within a few weeks of the program start date (January 10, 2026) to arrange your reward payment.

To qualify for the referral reward, please ask the person you are referring to submit an application and mention that you referred them. If we have not received their application, we'll contact the person you referred to let them know about the fellowship opportunity and encourage them to apply if they haven't already.

How is a referral attributed?

Only one person will be credited with a referral reward per accepted fellow. To be eligible for the reward, you must fill out this referral form.

Only one referee per accepted fellow will be credited with a referral award. The referral award will go to the first person we hear from (counted from form submission time), whether that's the person credited on the candidate's application (if they also filled out our referral form), or the first person who submitted our referral form for that candidate.

If the person credited by the applicant has not filled in this form and no one else referred this applicant, they will not be eligible for a reward. Final determination of referral reward payment and eligibility will be made at the discretion of the CAIRF team.
Exemptions

Candidates we've already been in touch with, or who have already applied, are not eligible. Present and former CAIRF staff, mentors, and research managers, AISSA staff, PIBBSS staff, CAIF staff, and UCT AI Initiative staff are not eligible for this program.

What's your name?

What's your email?

Who are you recommending?

You can name multiple people. Please separate their names by commas.

What is their email?

Alternatively, you could also add their LinkedIn profile.

Why are you recommending them? (optional)

Can we mention that that you've referred them?

If we haven’t received applications from the people you recommended in the following days, we’ll reach out to encourage them to apply. Please let us know if we may mention that you referred them. Otherwise, we’ll simply mention that they were referred without naming who made the recommendation.

Can we mention that that you've referred them?
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Is there anything else you'd like us to know?