The Horisont grant is meant to support foundational research across all scientific fields and disciplines to find novel theoretical or practical solutions to important problems in science and society in the widest sense, including challenging methodological problem. The grant supports attempts to find paths into unknown terrain but also to enrich and deepen established fields.
Many important and fundamental scientific discoveries and insights are found at the intersection of apparently disjunct and unrelated fields and the truly novel and original is often unpredictable and unexpected. There is rarely room for explorations of such unknown and unchartered territories through the usual means of research funding. The grant Horisont (“Horizon”) targets such unorthodox and unconventional approaches.The supported research can be but is not necessarily cross-disciplinary.
The Horisont grant should be viewed as seed money for the development of and preparations for new research programs that usually cannot find a place in the usual research funding systems, or to serve as a basis for research proposals for larger and long-term projects.