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SAIF welcomes expressions of interest, recommendations, and relevant institutional engagement.
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Volunteer with SAIF
Share your background, languages, and availability so we can review where your contribution may fit current or future needs.
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Future Advisory Consideration
Use this path for self-nominations or third-party nominations submitted for curated institutional review. It does not imply guaranteed selection, appointment, or contact.
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Institutional / Partner Inquiry
Use this path for universities, NGOs, companies, donors, and other mission-aligned institutional conversations.
Contribution categories
Research interns
A structured, learning-oriented research pathway with its own review and internship agreement.
Data labeling contributors
Support data labeling, review, and preparation under clear documentation, privacy, and review guidelines.
Language and archive contributors
Contribute language resources, dialect knowledge, and archival material relevant to Syria and the Levant.
Technical volunteers
Support engineering, tooling, evaluation, and infrastructure work across active tracks.
Institutional collaborators
For universities, NGOs, companies, and public-sector institutions exploring collaboration with SAIF.
Express interest in a future Mateen project
Mateen is in development. Institutions may share real problems for future review; no cohort or delivery timetable has been announced.
Express interest in future Mateen participation
Share your background for future consideration. The first cohort will be announced when operating and funding conditions are ready.
Express interest as a future Mateen coach or mentor
Share relevant technical or research expertise for future consideration. Submitting interest does not guarantee selection or project matching.
Apply to the Trainer Development Program
Help build SAIF's distributed trainer network across Syria and the Levant, in AI, digital skills, data, or other mission-relevant subjects. Expressions of interest are open and do not guarantee selection or assignment.
Offer expert or advisory contribution
Share expert or advisory interest with SAIF. This is not an application for Advisory Council membership; SAIF may contact suitable contributors about appropriate roles.
Submitting an inquiry does not imply automatic acceptance, employment, payment, or formal appointment. Submissions are reviewed against current needs and fit.
Capacity support
SAIF is preparing a responsible support architecture around the capacity needs below. No public donation mechanism or tax-deductible giving route is active on this website at this time. Institutions and prospective supporters may use the existing institutional inquiry path.
- Core research capacity
- Researcher and talent development
- Compute and infrastructure
- Specific research projects
- Trusted data and knowledge initiatives
- Future Mateen cohorts
- Core operating capacity
Volunteer contribution areas
- AI, data, and evaluation
- Technical / engineering
- Marketing
- Social media
- Administrative support
- Research internship
- Media, photography, and video
- Creative design
- Content and translation
- Language resources and annotation
- Events and community
- Grants and fundraising support
Advisory consideration
Advisory pathways are curated. SAIF reviews self-nominations and third-party nominations in line with strategic relevance, institutional fit, and leadership review.
Institutional engagement
Partner and general inquiries are routed according to relevance, timing, and program fit. Sharing clear context helps us direct each inquiry appropriately.
Structured intake
Choose the most relevant path and provide the related information. SAIF uses this form to route interest, nominations, and institutional outreach in a structured way.