[ VOLKSWAGEN STIFTUNG Experiment! I Research Funding ]

The Volkswagen Stiftung funding initiative Experiment! – In search of bold research ideas addresses researchers in science and engineering as well as in the life sciences (including immediately neighbouring disciplines in the behavioural sciences) who want to put a potentially transformative and risky research idea to the text. The initiative supports daring research projects, which drop out of regular funding schemes due to their early stage or unorthodoxy, disregarding a high project risk and the vagueness of a successful outcome. The choice of topics is free.
 
Who can apply:

• The PI must be a postdoctoral researcher or a professor in Germany.
• Swiss-based researchers can be involved as international partners. They must hold a doctorate degree, a habilitation or a professorship appointment.

• Eligible costs: Salaries and project-related costs (incl. funding for international partners).
• Non-eligible costs: Overheads.