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Experimentation Spaces

EXPERIMENTATION SPACES – THE FUNDING LINE FOR COURAGEOUS RESEARCHERS WHO BREAK NEW GROUND

Innovative ideas arise where disciplines meet, where familiar paths are left behind and where the world is viewed from new perspectives. With its ‘Experimental Spaces’ funding line, the FCMH will support researchers in implementing highly innovative projects from 2023 to 2026. 

With ‘Experimental Spaces’, the FCMH promotes novel project ideas that are characterised by cooperation between disciplines, institutions or types of higher education institutions. Researchers from all disciplines can thus address forward-looking questions, establish and expand consortia, test novel research approaches and conduct proof-of-concept or feasibility studies. In addition, the programme provides freedom to learn new research methods, practise using innovative equipment and get to know the laboratories of potential partners. 
Funding covers material, travel and/or personnel costs for a maximum funding period of one year. A total of EUR 200,000 is available annually (individual projects are usually funded up to approximately EUR 30,000).

Applications are no longer possible as the funding for 2026 has already been allocated.

List of all funded projects:

  • EPICURE - Epigenetic Editing for Inhibition of Cancer Using RNA-based EpiEdit
  • Facial Expressions of Central Bankers and the Response of Financial Markets
  • MAREB - Resolving the where and when of math and reading in the human brain
  • PaM - Planet as Method
  • MoSiPa - Monte Carlo Simulations of Radiation Effects in Particle Therapy
  • Antigen-Antibody Interaction in Epithelial Autoimmune Disease
  • EpiCure4C - Epigenetic Editing by plant based glycosylase for Inhibition of Cancer using RNAbased EpiEdit_ for Collaboration and Technology Transfer
  • Aggressive Aesthetics, Aesthetic Aggression: Issues of the Satirical
  • Proteases in the Myometrium and Endometrium as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Target Molecules (PROMINEND)
  • X4Neuro – XAI for Digital Neuropathology
  • Literacy in Post-Migrant Society (LiPS)
  • swAMPy – A Scalable Workflow for AMP Discovery
  • Role of the TRPM3 Channel in LPS-Induced 'Sickness Behavior'
  • Investigations into the Contribution of RNA to the Dynamic Formation and Dissociation of NF-κB Protein Complexes
  • Bioeconomic Approaches for the Development of Economical Insect Cell Culture Media (InMed)
  • Testing of Railway Ties with AI-Supported Acoustic Emission Analysis
  • ANTIBAM-MS (ANtibiotic Targeting of Innovative BamA scaffolds using native MS)
  • First Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling for Understanding HMPV-Host Interactions
  • PaCo - packaging signals in coronaviral replication
  • Optical Imaging System for Assessing the Quality of Laparoscopic Vessel Sealing (OPTI-Q)
  • Verbal Politeness in the Acquisition and Use of German as a Foreign/Second Language: Prorodic Routines and Linguistic Means
  • EPIC-CAM - 3R-Compliant CAM Model for Investigating the Effect of the Epigenetic Drug Guadecitabine using Epigenomics
  • Sustainable Transparent Oxides for Perovskite Solar Cells (SuPer)
  • When Does the Beginning of the End Start? Idiosyncratic Symbols of Dying and Incurability from the Perspective of Patients in Palliative Care
  • VisSURG-AID - Visual Surgical Artificial Intelligence for Decision support
  • CRAFT: Carcinoembryonic Cell Adhesion Molecule 6-Targeted EVs for Raft-Localised Reporter Delivery