Mercator Stiftung — disclosed project funder

PDF 2 says the paper draws on the transnational network built by the Collaboratory, led by some of its authors, and calls it a joint project funded by “Mercator Stiftung” since early 2024. The retained homepage/publications HTML references a funder logo asset named Stiftung-Mercator-Weiss-RGB.png , with empty alt text. The logo image was not separately acquired or visually read. These observations identify the disclosed foundation name; no exact grantor legal suffix, amount, award agreement, payment or reserved approval right was acquired.

PolicyPDF2 attributes this joint Collaboratory project to Mercator Stiftung funding and says some paper authors lead it. The Weizenbaum Institute's separate institutional funding statement names the German federal ministry (BMFTR) and State of Berlin. A project grant and host-institution support are different resources; no amounts, donor conditions or reviewer rights are disclosed in these pages. The title-page author list and current homepage team are different dated roles and should not be collapsed into identical governance.