In accordance with its funding guidelines of 1January 2019 (as last amended), the FWF has issued the following

Anonymity The project description and the overview revision, if applicable, are to be written anonymously, meaning that the identity and career stage of the principal investigator as well as all the other researchers involved in the project, including the cooperation partners, must not be identifiable from the project description (see 2.3.). [...] Each item of equipment is to be recorded in the institution’s inventory and the acquisition costs are to be reimbursed from the respective project budget in accordance with the relevant agreement between the research institution and the FWF. [...] ▪ Required as part of the research institution’s confirmation when approving the proposal: Confirmation that the principal investigator is employed at least 50% time at the research institution for the duration of the project, and funding of the 1,000 Ideas programme will not be used to finance this portion of the PI’s employment. [...] On account of the intentional high risk and originality of the project ideas, the following changes have been made to the FWF’s usual decision-making procedure: All the applications that meet the formal criteria are initially checked for completeness of content by the scientific project officers of the FWF Office (for this, see the items addressed in the project description). [...] Each application is evaluated by two panel members with regards to the transformative potential, the suitability of the methods, as well as the coherence and the strength of the project idea, based on the scale from 1-5.