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.
Funding Goals and Target Group
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.
This funding program is aimed at researchers from all disciplines.
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 fundin
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
- For further details, please see the application guidelines.
