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Breaking the Wall of Biased Grant Approvals

Henrike Hartmann

Science & Innovation Management

The nominating institution Leuphana University on the breakthrough:

The Volkswagen foundation has developed a new selection procedure due to the impossibility of absolute objectiveness: In the funding initiative “Experiment!”, part of the funded projects are selected by an independent jury. Additionally, further projects are drawn from those applications that are suitable for the program and eligible for funding, but were not chosen. They got a second chance by chance, in a kind of peer reviewed lottery.

Henrike Hartmann

VolkswagenStiftung

Dr. Henrike Hartmann studied pharmacy at the University of Freiburg and did her doctorate in pharmacology in Heidelberg and Mannheim. She then spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston and at the University of Frankfurt am Main. She has been working for the Volkswagen Foundation since 1998. In addition to her work for the foundation, Henrike Hartmann is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz and the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institutes for Biology of Aging, Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolic Research, also in Cologne.

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