Dear colleagues, RACI provides funding for academics to present their research at events such as the RIPE Meeting and RIPE NCC regional meetings. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the funds for this initiative for the year 2021 will instead be used to support research projects relevant to work carried out by the RIPE NCC. We invite universities and research institutes in the RIPE NCC service region to submit proposals to work on projects in these areas: - Apply machine learning and big data analytics to the collected routing data to identify and predict trends. - Apply and customise big data visualisation frameworks to the collected routing data to better display the data to users. More details are available at: https://www.ripe.net/raci-funding If you are interested, please send us a project proposal by 31 May. We encourage you to share this call with anyone who might be interested in applying for RACI funding. If you have any questions, please write to raci@ripe.net. Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC