We submitted our first grant application in January to the European Research Council – an ambitious project to create “A New Science of Existential Risk” that, if successful, would provide enough funding for CSER’s first research programme—a sizeable programme that will run for five years.
We’ve been successful in the first and second rounds, and we will hear a final round decision at the end of the year.
Unfortunately it got to a very late stage but was not funded. While reviewers ranked it very highly, it was always a long shot—we were asking for a lot of money for what is not a “traditional” academic discipline. However, we think that there are several foundations that might be inclined to support the type of research programme proposed—we aim to submit proposals to these early this year.
(Note: we had the same result with an Arts and Humanities Research Counciul grant submitted this fall—highly-ranked but ultimately unsuccessful. Also should be good material for further applications).
How’d it go?
Unfortunately it got to a very late stage but was not funded. While reviewers ranked it very highly, it was always a long shot—we were asking for a lot of money for what is not a “traditional” academic discipline. However, we think that there are several foundations that might be inclined to support the type of research programme proposed—we aim to submit proposals to these early this year.
(Note: we had the same result with an Arts and Humanities Research Counciul grant submitted this fall—highly-ranked but ultimately unsuccessful. Also should be good material for further applications).