{"id":229496,"date":"2026-01-21T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cerns-future-circular-collider-project-gets-1-billion-funding"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:04:17","slug":"cerns-future-circular-collider-project-gets-1-billion-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cerns-future-circular-collider-project-gets-1-billion-funding","title":{"rendered":"CERN\u2019s Future Circular Collider project gets $1 billion funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vSe1FEiXX1k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a historic first for the laboratory, CERN has received $1 billion in private donations to support the development of the Future Circular Collider (FCC).<\/p>\n<p>This philanthropic backing marks a shift in CERN\u2019s 72-year funding history as it seeks to bridge the gap for the project\u2019s estimated $18 billion price tag.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund, and billionaire entrepreneurs John Elkann and Xavier Niel. Together, they pledged a combined $1 billion in late December 2025 to jumpstart the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic first for the laboratory, CERN has received $1 billion in private donations to support the development of the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This philanthropic backing marks a shift in CERN\u2019s 72-year funding history as it seeks to bridge the gap for the project\u2019s estimated $18 billion price tag. It comes from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}