Hard Questions Grant - Incite at Columbia University

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Hard Questions Grant

  • Grant Value Up to $75,000
  • Seeded Project(s) 3

Across disciplines, scholars are grappling with novel problems or previously unasked questions that require innovative, perhaps pioneering, approaches or analyses. Research of this sort carries a great risk of failure and, so, can be hard to gain funding.

In support of the Columbia University Arts and Sciences Hard Questions strategic priority, Incite Institute is funding seed grants for initiatives whose boldness carries the risk of such failure, whose further success requires the unlikely data collection, the untested method, the unexpected analyses in order for the project to be funded at scale.

Applications are currently closed.

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