"A mistaken project does not always lead to something correct: often (and this is what happened in many projected perfect languages) a project that the author believed right seems to us unrealizable, but for this very reason we understand why something else was right. Take the case of Foingy: he invents a language that cannot work, and he invents it deliberately to parody other languages seriously propoased. But in doing so he helps us see (probably beyond his own intention) why, on the contrary, the imperfect languages we all speak work fairly well." Umberto Eco, Serendipities ix

I guess this is similar to our Project for Excellence in Education. The money we got may not be much, but we are going to spend that money on improving our teaching facilities, while a certain university in the central part of Taiwan has spent a small part of their project money on buying a sailing yacht for their students.