# Who Funds the Future? Rethinking How We Finance Science

Who Funds the Future? Rethinking How We Finance Science at Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café, Sunday 8 November 2026, 09:00.

- Venue: Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café, Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin
- With: Caroline Montojo, Michael Hengartner, Martin Hetzer, Markus Reinhard
- Go to page: https://falling-walls.com/programme/who-funds-future-rethinking-how-we-finance-science

A round table discussion on how science should be financed in the future. It involves the Institute of Science and Technology Austria together with representatives of public funders and philanthropic foundations, including Caroline Montojo of the Dana Foundation, Michael Hengartner of the ETH Board, Martin Hetzer of ISTA and Markus Reinhard of the Nomis Foundation. As public research budgets come under pressure while the most ambitious ideas often fall through the cracks, the discussion asks which funding models enable independent, ambitious science. Public funders, philanthropic leaders and research institutions examine what works and what can be learned from different approaches.

## Dates

- Sunday 8 November 09:00 — Falling Walls Science House, Tsukamoto Café

Written by a model, sources: [falling-walls.com](https://falling-walls.com/programme/who-funds-future-rethinking-how-we-finance-science)

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