Start-up grants

Aim

Barncancerfonden (The Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation) calls for proposals for start-up grants for national and international collaborations within children oncology research. The aim is to achieve research group collaborations and consortia and provide funding to apply for larger grants, such as EU grants.

Terms and conditions for the call
The grants is allocated as a non-recurring grant to cover costs associated with the application procedure. Costs to apply for include start-up meetings, travel costs and other possible costs associated with the application procedure. In exceptional cases, salary costs for application writing may be granted.

The application for start-up grants should include a project description as an appendix that describes the planned research and the consortium. Barncancerfonden finances research expected to be beneficial for children with cancer. Applications with an indirect relevance for children oncology may also be granted. The relevance for Swedish patients and/or children oncology research in Sweden should however be clearly stated in the application. For example, clinical projects may include Swedish patients.

Eligibility to apply
• Funding is applied for by an individual scientist from any of the Nordic countries.
• At least one researcher (main or co-applicant) based in Sweden should actively participate in the project.
• The main applicant should hold a Swedish doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree and be active in the field of childhood cancer. This includes, for example, medical doctors, researchers, counselors, psychologists, and nurses. The co-applicant does not need a PhD degree.

About the grant
The grant is a block grant unless otherwise stated in the decision letter.

Administration
The grant is to be administered by a Nordic university, hospital or institute, alternatively another Nordic organization with research as its main purpose in collaboration with a university, hospital or institute.

Application period
Refer to the web page of Barncancerfonden. Incomplete or late applications will not be evaluated.

Instructions for applying
The application system opens two months prior to the last day for application. A complete application includes a filled-in web form and:

• a project description uploaded as an attachment in PDF file format.

The project description may not exceed 2 A4-pages including references (12 ppt Times New Roman, single-space, automatic line break). The project description may be written either in English or in Swedish and should contain the information needed to evaluate the constitution of the consortium and the aim, originality, and feasibility of the planned research.

The project description should contain the following headings:
• Aim and goals; present the overall aim and the specific goals of the research project.
• Work plan; summarize the project and present a timetable. Describe theories, methods and implementation. 
• Constitution of the consortium: description of all partners and their respective competences
• Relevance of the consortium: description of the relevance of the consortium and what the consortium intends to achieve

Note that the application may not be submitted electronically if mandatory information is missing. After submission, the first page of the application must be printed, signed, and sent to Barncancerfonden no later than one week after the last day of the application period. Revisions to submitted applications are not allowed.

The signed first page is to be sent to: 
 forskning@barncancerfonden.se
 
Organization of the application
Instructions on how to fill in the application form is found in the top right corner on each tab.

The application may be written either in English or in Swedish with the following exceptions: 
• The popular science title must be written in Swedish.
• The project title must be written in English.
• The popular science description must be written in Swedish.  
• The summary must be written in English. 

General terms

Refer to the separate document ”Generella villkor” (in Swedish) in the application system.

Retrieval of grants
Refer to the separate document ”Så här får du dina beviljade medel” (in Swedish) in the application system.

Contact
Emeli Lundström, Forskningssamordnare
emeli.lundstrom@barncancerfonden.se
08-584 209 03
 
or

forskning@barncancerfonden.se