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Eidos Institute has established an Institute Gift Fund and an eminent Australian Research Committee to provide the administrative structure solely responsible for the determining how the monies (Eidos Institute surplus and philanthropic funding) held in the Fund are expended to deliver the Research Agenda. The purpose of the fund is to resource quality research and development on human capital, productivity and well-being to drive our understanding into reducing the growing gap within the knowledge economy. As Past Eidos Foundation Research Committee member, Prof. Andrew Leigh states “What is needed in tackling our toughest social problems is not more ideology, but an evidence-based attempt to find out what works and what does not. In the same way as we employ rigorous research methodologies to try to find a cure for cancer or AIDS, so we will the same with our most difficult policy challenge.”
The Eidos Institute Gift Fund is dedicated to funding opportunities and projects which promote a new approach to policy, one which is not just informed and evidence-based but also committed to continually evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of policy at a local, national and global level. By supporting policy which does not merely represent a set of stagnant goals or targets but as an evolving, living, breathing entity the Eidos Institute Gift Fund is launching a targeted campaign against persistent ‘broken policies’ which continue to fail to implement real change.
The Eidos Institute Gift Fund is driven and overseen by an elite group of scholars entirely independent of the Eidos operational structure. The Gift Fund is chaired by Emeritus Professor Colin Power, former Deputy-Director of UNESCO from 1999 – 2000 and Assistant Director-General for Education from 1989 – 1998. Professor Power’s highly respected international work and profile within the realm of international education immediately elevates and legitimises the work and philosophy of the Eidos Gift Fund.
Drawing from the Eidos Institutes eleven member universities, the Eidos Gift Fund is seeking to contribute financial backing to research-based projects with a targeted focus.
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