Crowdfunding platform for research projects
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Run your science-campaign on wemakeit and double the funds you raise with our Science Booster!
"The crowdfunding platform offers young and innovative scientists the opportunity to formulate their first scientific ideas and explain them to a wider audience," say Mirko Bischofberger and Luc Henry, the initiators of the Science Booster channel. It will allow inquisitive researchers inside or outside of academic institutions to raise their own funds and test their less conventional ideas. This novel initiative on Switzerland's largest crowdfunding platform is supported by the Gebert Rüf Stiftung, which will help you reach your goals and maximize your impact by matching the funds raised by successful campaigns in the Science Booster (up to CHF 10,000 per project).
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) welcomes the launch of the Science Booster channel as it chimes with one of its key aims: the promotion of young researchers. By crowdfunding small and short-term projects, researchers can get their first taste of enterpreunership. And their efforts to put their ideas into practice include unconventional and direct forms of science communication, another priority area of the SNSF and other important funding bodies.
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