Organizations, research groups, universities, companies, and institutions interested in formal collaboration with the Institute.
Organizational collaboration aligned around Active Inference research, education, and application.
On this page
Partnerships align organizations and collaborators around concrete shared work — co-hosting events, co-authoring research, sharing infrastructure, or developing joint education and application programs.
Partnership is a practical relationship built around shared work. Partner organizations contribute time, attention, expertise, funding, infrastructure, or institutional capacity in exchange for collaboration with the Institute and its community. Partnership is not a sponsorship or a passive affiliation — it is an active, bilateral exchange with concrete outcomes that benefit both parties and the broader Active Inference Ecosystem.
Partnerships take many forms depending on the partner's goals and the Institute's current capacity. Common partnership activities include: co-hosting workshops, symposia, or educational events; co-authoring research papers or educational materials; sharing computational and storage resources; developing joint courses, tools, or datasets; cross-linking community and research infrastructure; and collaborating on grant proposals and funded research projects.
Current Institute partners are First Principles First, a research collaborative working toward a science of mindful agents, societies, and observer languages, and Numen Games, which is building a gamified organizational framework and open-metaverse RPG. Lazy Dynamics, which led development of RxInfer-PRO and co-supervised the RxInfer/ReactiveBayes open-source community, partnered with the Institute from 2025 through 2026. Partners work across computational neuroscience, cognitive science, ecology, economics, engineering, health, and other domains where Active Inference is being applied. The Applied Active Inference Symposium has been a central gathering point for partners and collaborators each year.
Partnership follows a six-stage process. Stage 0 (Initial Engagement) is an exploratory conversation to determine whether philanthropy, direct project participation, or a formal partnership best fits an organization's goals and capacity. Stage 1 (Submit Application) asks the organization to complete a Partnership Application covering five areas: organization information; alignment with the Institute's mission; the proposed partnership's scope, duration, and support; partnership expectations and commitments; and additional supporting information such as references. Stage 2 (Review & Selection) is the Institute's internal evaluation of fit and impact; Stage 3 (Formal Agreement) establishes a written partnership agreement covering contributions, roles, and points of contact; Stage 4 (Planning Session) sets shared objectives and a 6-to-12-month action plan; and Stage 5 (Ongoing Collaboration) is the sustained, evolving relationship, with regular updates and feedback. Questions, pre-submission inquiries, and completed applications go to blanket@activeinference.institute with [PARTNERS] in the subject line.
Partnership often connects with grant support and philanthropy. Partners may pursue grants collaboratively with the Institute. Organizations that want to support the Institute's work without a formal collaboration can contribute through the philanthropy pathway.
Key surfaces
Partnership is bilateral — shared work with concrete outcomes, not passive affiliation.
First Principles First and Numen Games are current Institute partners; Lazy Dynamics partnered with the Institute from 2025 through 2026.
Co-host symposia, workshops, courses, and collaborative research projects.
Collaborate on grant proposals as co-investigators or sub-awardees.
Describe your work and what collaboration you have in mind.
Related resources
External links are resolved from the shared registry so visitor-facing destinations stay centralized and checkable.
Audience: Newcomer
Recurring public update surface for activity orientation and current work.
Audience: Developer
Public GitHub organization for Institute repositories and open-source work.
Audience: Developer
Project repository for multiagent Active Inference modeling work.
Audience: Developer
Generalized Notation Notation project repository for model communication.
Audience: Developer
Geospatial modeling repository connected to ecological and bioregional applications.
Official pages
Audience: Contributor
Official get-involved entry point, currently resolving to participation.
Audience: Contributor
Public projects shortlink for project directories and activity-linked work.
Audience: Contributor
Public project measurement shortlink for reporting progress and outputs.
Audience: Contributor
Public volunteer pathway for contribution and onboarding.
Audience: Contributor
Public internship pathway for structured learning and project participation.
Audience: Partner
Public symposium shortlink for Applied Active Inference Symposium information.
Audience: Contributor
Public Fellows pathway for structured Institute participation.
Audience: Contributor
Public mentorship pathway for guided participation and learning.
Repositories
Audience: Developer
Notebook-based applied Active Inference work connected to blockchain-adjacent and generative modeling examples.
Audience: Developer
Python models and materials for ant-inspired multiagent Active Inference.
Audience: Developer
Public ants repository in the ActiveInferenceInstitute GitHub namespace.
Audience: Developer
ATLAS
Audience: Developer
Public Biofirm repository in the ActiveInferenceInstitute GitHub namespace.
Audience: Developer
Python codebase for cognitive and Active Inference-oriented modeling work.
Audience: Developer
Public Garden-of-Iris repository in the ActiveInferenceInstitute GitHub namespace.
Audience: Developer
GEN-24 project repository for active inference and Active Blockference exploration.