Freigeist funds to be redirected after 2022 selection as part of wider strategy change
A total of 13 researchers have impressed the Volkswagen Foundation with unusual and high-risk proposals and received a Freigeist Fellowship in the programme’s final round.
The fellowship offers grantees “maximum freedom for their research”, the foundation said. The decision to make this the final round was made after the foundation revamped its research funding strategy. It now aims to develop new funding initiatives using the Freigeist progamme’s budget, it confirmed.