Supporting Pioneering Research and Teaching Courses
The Wind River® University Program allows faculty and students at colleges and universities to use state-of-the-art operating systems, platforms, middleware, and development tools to enrich their research efforts and teaching courses to foster advances in embedded technologies and intelligent edge systems.
How the Program Works
Donated licenses are for nonprofit educational use by full-time students and professors and may be used for the following:
- Courses that teach embedded systems and IoT concepts
- Graduate and undergraduate projects for engineering and non-engineering courses
- Academic research activities with publicly available results
- Graduate student theses
Guest Speakers
In addition to donating products, Wind River offers to provide an expert to lead an instructional class about the technology related to your project.
Applying to the University Program
To apply for Wind River product donations to your academic program, please complete an application with the appropriate documents and email to university@windriver.com.*
Teaching
Research
Export Compliance
For both teaching and research programs, any applicant from countries not exempt from export screening controls** must fill out an Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative (EPCI) form. Please learn more about our export compliance requirements.
* Applications must be signed by an authorized representative of the academic institution.
** Countries exempt from EPCI screening: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Frequently Asked Questions
Wind River General Purpose Platform, VxWorks® Edition 3.x, Wind River Linux 3.x, VxWorks Developers Toolkit, and Wind River Simics® for Academia are available using the forms found on this website.
Software is available in object/binary format only; source code is not provided.
Included with the software grant is 90 days of free online support. For further support, please contact us at:
- Sales Inquiries
Toll-free: 800-545-WIND (800-545-9463)
Send us a request for more information. - Sales Inquiries EMEA
Toll-free: 800-4988-4988
Universities choosing to purchase maintenance will pay a flat fee per authorized contact (the technical contact listed on the Addendum to the grant proposal) rather than for the actual number of users for the project. This special quoting for universities can amount to a significant cost savings if the university has requested multiple seats of our product. Please contact us for further information at:
- Sales Inquiries
Toll-free: 800-545-WIND (800-545-9463)
Send us a request for more information. - Sales Inquiries EMEA
Toll-free: 800-4988-4988