Dr. Schütte, the state promotes research with many millions of euros. What prompted the Volkswagen Foundation to enter the promotion of risk research as a private foundation? We see that many well -founded procedures have established themselves in the publicly financed research funding in order to decide what is worthy of funding. As with every procedure, there are also no intended consequences. For example, that is often too traditional within the subjects. We therefore asked ourselves where the niche is a small foundation in comparison to public financing in order to further bring the science system forward. That is why we also take a risk because we want to afford failure.
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