research foundations

Build your impactful research toolkit

Research Foundations

In our 4-week Foundations Program, you'll learn the basics of impactful research and choose a problem you could tackle in the Fellowship.

Certificate

of completion

A world-class community

of like-minded people who care deeply

Learn

the basics of impactful research and interdisciplinary academic concepts

4 hours

per week on a flexible schedule

Program structure

week 1

Communicating and reasoning about impact

Mindsets, frameworks, and tools for critical reasoning.

week 2

Opening up possibilities

Compile a list of pressing problems in the world based on your values.

week 3

Choosing your focus

Prioritize your list of problems to tackle.

week 4

Breaking down your problem

Identify your strengths and explore career paths to create a project that supports your goals.

The activities helped me to clarify some important questions and highlight my highest impact field. Non-Trivial helped me to write my first project proposal and has given me the motivation to execute my project.

Lofty, Computer Science + Molecular Biochemistry & Biophysics @ Yale University
Activities

A typical weekly schedule

Guided process

Weekly asynch. activities help you plan your research and develop your idea.

Research toolkit

Learn the basics of impactful research and learn interdisciplinary academic concepts.

Community discussions

Join an active online forum to get support or discuss whatever interests you.

Introductory calls

Get matched for a call with another talented young researcher who shares your passions and interests.

Ideas

Learn interdisciplinary ideas

Learn and apply concepts from diverse academic disciplines, for example:

Our programs

Launch your impactful research career

Research Fellows will be selected from Foundations participants and Research Scholars are selected from our cohort Fellows.

Don't wait to
change the world

Start your impactful research this summer.

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