Target group
The funding program is aimed at researchers working in the field of biomedical research at universities, non-academic research institutions, and research departments in related sectors.
Funding goals
The ERA4Health European Partnership has several objectives: Expanding biomedical and public health research, including clinical and intervention areas, generating new knowledge to improve the use of existing health technologies in practice, and building further capacity in medicine and clinical trials at the European level. The ultimate goal is to facilitate research projects and innovations that will improve both the health of the European population as well as healthcare delivery.
Funding period and funding amount
The maximum funding period is 48 months.
Requirements
The requirements and specifications for the FWF programs Principal Investigator Projects and Clinical Research apply.
Information on the current call “Fostering Pragmatic Comparative-Effectiveness Trials in Non-Communicable Diseases (EffecTrial)”
The aim of the call is to support randomized, interventional, and pragmatic comparative-effectiveness multi-country Investigator-Initiated Clinical Studies (IICS) that are designed as randomized interventional trials.
The interventions shall have high public relevance only in the fields of these specific diseases or conditions (that are of equal importance): cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, nutrition and lifestyle-related diseases, or non-communicable respiratory diseases
Each application must be supported by a minimum of three and a maximum of five participating partner countries, whereby a joint document must be submitted to the central Call Secretariat by the coordinator. The researchers are funded by their respective national/regional funding organization.
Funding organizations from 13 countries are planning to join this call.
Please see the EffecTrial website for a complete list of potential participating countries.
Approval
Decided by the Scientific Board based on a recommendation of the Call Secretariat.
Application information
Applications are submitted online using the Call Secretariat’s system. Please see the EffecTrial website for a link to the application submission system.
There will be a two-step submission and evaluation procedure.
- Deadline for pre-proposal submission: January 28, 2025, 4:00 pm CET
- Deadline for full proposal submission: June 17, 2025, 4:00 pm CET
- Funding decision: estimated November 2025
In addition to the application submitted to the Call Secretariat, administrative and financial data as well as academic abstracts (in accordance with the FWF guidelines for Principal Investigator Projects) must also be submitted to the FWF using the online portal elane. In the pre-proposal stage, proposals are submitted under the program category “PIK – International Projects – pre-proposal” (deadline January 29, 2025, 2:00 pm Vienna local time). For the full proposal stage, applicants must choose the program category “PIN – International Projects” (Deadline June 18, 2024, 2:00 pm Vienna local time).
Both steps are mandatory.
Please note that research institution must approve proposals for submission by the deadlines indicated above. To do so, research institutions must be registered on the FWF research institution portal.
Funding institution
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Further information
- Please see EffecTrial for further details.
- For general questions about the call, please contact the Joint Call Secretariat (JCS) at EffecTrial(at)isciii.es. For specific questions related to the budget, criteria, and rules of your funding organization, please consult your funding organization directly. Contacts and details of the national and regional regulations of the individual funding organizations can be found in the call text on the EffecTrial website.