FQXi 2008 Grants
The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) is an independent, philanthropically funded grant-awarding non-profit organization.
Our mission is to catalyze, support, and disseminate research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.
Given this context, the purpose of the FQXi grants program is three-fold:
* To encourage and support rigorous, innovative, and influential scientific research and collaborations on foundational questions in physics and cosmology, which may have significant and broad implications for a deep understanding of reality;
* To redress incrementalism in research programming by establishing or expanding new 'islands' of understanding via flexible funding of high-risk, high-reward research in these areas;
* To provide the public with a deeper understanding of known and future discoveries in these areas, and their potential implications for our worldview.
In support of these goals, FQXi will award grants of varying value to exceptional and rigorous scientific research proposals that meet the following criteria.
Grants totaling about $2.5M will be available to researchers in academic and other non-profit institutions for projects up to two years in duration, beginning September 1, 2008.
