Pioneering Research – Exploring the Unknown Unknown supports researchers across disciplines pursuing high-risk basic research into uncharted scientific territory to enable breakthroughs or paradigm shifts.
Night Science – Space for the Creative Mind from the Volkswagen Foundation supports interdisciplinary researcher tandems to explore creative, unconventional ideas in the natural, life, and engineering sciences.
The Change! Fellowships from the Volkswagen Foundation fund transdisciplinary research partnerships tackling societal transformation through collaboration between academics and non-academic partners.
Momentum – Funding for Recently Tenured Professors supports academics in Germany with flexible measures to develop their research and research-based teaching, strengthening creativity and research diversity.
Serendipity Grants support LEO Foundation grantees exploring unexpected, early-stage discoveries from ongoing research, helping novel ideas mature into a basis for further scientific or clinical investigation.
Branco Weiss Fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers worldwide pursuing unconventional, independent research and dialogue on societal issues to develop scientific visions beyond disciplinary boundaries.