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AlexMennen comments on Update on establishment of Cambridge’s Centre for Study of Existential Risk - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: AlexMennen 02 January 2014 03:43:50AM 0 points [-]

We submitted our first grant application in January to the European Research Council – an ambitious project to create “A New Science of Existential Risk” that, if successful, would provide enough funding for CSER’s first research programme - a sizeable programme that will run for five years. We’ve been successful in the first and second rounds, and we will hear a final round decision at the end of the year.

How'd it go?

Comment author: Sean_o_h 02 January 2014 10:47:15AM 2 points [-]

Unfortunately it got to a very late stage but was not funded. While reviewers ranked it very highly, it was always a long shot - we were asking for a lot of money for what is not a "traditional" academic discipline. However, we think that there are several foundations that might be inclined to support the type of research programme proposed - we aim to submit proposals to these early this year.

(Note: we had the same result with an Arts and Humanities Research Counciul grant submitted this fall - highly-ranked but ultimately unsuccessful. Also should be good material for further applications).

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