[VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION I RESEARCH FUNDING]
Event details
Date | 05.07.2017 |
Category | Call for proposal |
The Volkswagen Foundation’s funding initiative 'Experiment!' addresses researchers in science and engineering as well as in the life sciences (including immediately neighboring disciplines in the behavioral sciences) who want to put a potentially transformative and risky research idea to an exploratory phase. A cooperative application with a German research institute that takes the lead is compulsory.
Submission deadlines: 05.07.2017
Funding: Up to EUR 120'000
Duration: 18 months
Subject: Science and engineering, life sciences. The ambitious aim is an exploration of fundamentally new research topics disregarding the project risk and perhaps the vagueness of a successful outcome, in order to demonstrate preliminary evidence for the concept’s potential. Projects are evaluated according to quality criteria by an interdisciplinary jury of scientists (double blind). From the selected pool of proposals, the jury selects the most convincing applications and additional projects are drawn in a lottery.
For more information: Please have a look at the Foundation’s website.
Practical information
- General public
- Free