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The Institute of ideas is committed to:
- The legacy of the Enlightenment: scientific and social experimentation, intellectual ambition and curiosity
- Embracing change and making history
- Art for art's sake, knowledge for its own sake, and education as an end in itself.
- Freedom. To think, to act, to say what needs saying - even if it offends others
- Challenging irrational social panics
- Open and robust debate, in which ideas can be interrogated, argued for and fought over
- Civil liberties, with no ifs or buts
The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. Established in 1936 and with an endowment of around £13 billion, it is the UK's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.
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