We are extremely pleased to announce the nine funded proposals for our 2026 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: QGIS Grants #11: Call for Grant Proposals 2026

These are the proposals:

1. QEP 424: Move away from geometry shaders in QGIS 3D QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#381
2. QEP 423: Get rid of QgsProject::instance() singleton in qgis_core QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#380
3. QEP 422: Async Refactoring QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#379
4. QEP 421: Add help strings for processing algorithm parameters QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#378
5. Add QEP 420: Restore the print layout HTML item for QGIS 4 QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#377
6. QEP 419: Improved Wayland compatibility QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#376
7. QEP 417: Replace SIP_FACTORY with std::unique_ptr QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#374
8. QEP 415 Refactor the evaluation of processing model with a dependency graph QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#372
9. QEP 418: Better versioning for “.model3” file format QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals#375

As usual, we provide a summary of the proposal discussions.

Due to the high quality of proposals and since the budget situation allows us to increase the grant programme budget, we are happy to announce that all proposals that passed the discussion phase will be funded and that there is no need for a voting this year.

On behalf of the QGIS.ORG project, I would like to thank everyone who submitted proposals for this call!