Mistra´s Idea Support Grants are intended to help realize innovative research projects with considerable potential to bring about a better environment. The research shall have a focus on discovery, innovative thinking or reappraisal of existing knowledge. A project funded under the scheme must involve significant elements of boldness, originality and creativity. Support can also be given to research that expressly challenges or questions established ways of thinking. Pre-proposals from all research areas, including social sciences and the humanities, are invited.Research ideas of innovative value are associated with great uncertainty and a larger element of risk taking than normal on the part of the funder. Mistra accepts a high degree of uncertainty, provided that the proposed research is considered capable of producing major environmental benefits in the long term. Innovative research often goes against the flow; it steps aside from the beaten track, or beats a new track of its own. Mistra feels it is important to create funding opportunities for research of this kind.
A project funded with an Idea Support Grant should be based on a clearly defined and demarcated question, which researchers are then given the opportunity to investigate in depth. The scheme thus complements the funding provided for the much broader and larger-scale Mistra programmes.
The closing date for Mistra´s Idea Support Grant 2007 was September 13, 2007.
For more information about Mistra's Idea Support Grant, download "Call for Idea Support Grants 2007" and "Guide for Idea Support Grants".
