FWF | 1000 ideas
The 1000 Ideas program funds completely new, high-risk, or particularly original research ideas that go beyond our current scientific understanding. The focus is on seed funding for forward-looking topics that have high transformative potential for science and research.
Target group
This funding program is aimed at researchers from all disciplines.
Funding Goals
The program’s goal is to encourage risk-taking, foster creativity, and facilitate the development of novel, innovative research areas. It focuses on original, high-risk, or transformative early-stage research that due to unconventional design, lack of validation data, and/or associated high risks may be too premature to have a very good chance of being funded through existing programs.
Funding period and funding amount
6 to 24 months
€50,000 to €175,000
The principal investigator’s own salary can only be financed up to 50%; doctoral candidate positions are not eligible for funding
Prerequisites
The applicant must have the academic qualifications needed to lead the proposed research project, usually a PhD/MD
The principal investigator must be employed at a research institution to an extent of at least 50% for the duration of the project (this extent of employment may not be financed by funds from the 1000 Ideas Program), confirmed by the research institution
Project to be carried out at an Austrian research institution with the necessary infrastructure
Approval
Double-blind selection procedure
Review and funding recommendation by the international jury of the 1000 Ideas programme
Some proposals are drawn at random from a pool of applications deemed worthy of funding by the jury.
Funding decisions made by the Scientific Board of the FWF, based on the jury’s reviews
Further information at: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/funding/portfolio/projects/1000-ideas