AFIRE Funders’ Forum Event series

Villum Experiment – a grant scheme with double-blind evaluation

AFIRE (Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation) is a new collaboration between RoRI, the Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) and a consortium of our partners to boost leadership and institutional capacity for the design, implementation and synthesis of experiments with research and innovation funding.

This talk will give an overview of the Villum Experiment grant programme, which targets research proposals out of the ordinary that challenge the norm and have the potential to fundamentally change the way we approach important topics.

Evaluation is double-blind: the review panel only sees an anonymous research proposal; the panel doesn’t interact with each other, and the identity of the review panel is not disclosed.

The talk will discuss the Foundation’s experiences with the programme, and its reception among applicants and reviewers.