This funding supports radically explorative basic research projects that aim to explore unknown unknowns rather than known unknowns. Projects must be conceptually or methodologically risky, hold high scientific relevance, and have the potential to trigger paradigm shifts or major breakthroughs. Incremental or application-oriented research is excluded. Eligible applicants include post-docs and professors at German institutions, with international collaborations possible.
Eligible applicants are post-doctoral researchers and professors at German universities and research institutes. International collaborations are allowed.
