Many people have made this contribution possible and many hours of unpaid work have gone into it. Here are the most important supporters.
As founder and director of the MIND group, I consider myself to be neither a junior nor a senior member. Therefore, I have not contributed a target paper or a commentary. If anything, my contribution lies in the choice and selection of authors and in the work, together with my collaborator Jennifer Windt, of bringing this project to completion.
All in all it has cost about € 241.000, to realize this project. First and foremost, the Barbara Wengeler-Stiftung needs to be mentioned: not only has it supported the current project with € 80,000, but over the years it has enabled the MIND Group to stay independent, and to realize a long series of fruitful meetings, during times when it was difficult to get support elsewhere. It has also supported some members by providing PhD and travel grants and by offering the annual € 10,000 Barbara Wengeler-Prize, awarded at our meetings in Frankfurt. The Gutenberg Research College and the Vokswagen-Stiftung have generously supported the project by providing two editorial staff positions for David Baßler, Daniela Hill, and Dr. Ying-Tung Lin, and by awarding a five-year Research Fellowship, beginning in April 2014, to me, Thomas Metzinger. This work was also partly supported by the European FP7 collaborative project VERE (contract no. 257695).