Call for research months for clinicians 2020

Aim

Barncancerfonden (The Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund) calls for proposals for research months for clinicians. The grant is intended to cover the salary cost for clinically active scientists in order to allow for full-time research during a maximum of 3 months per year during 3 years. 

Description of the call
Grants may be allocated to health care research, translational research and fundamental research in Sweden. The proposed project should address research within the area of pedriatric oncology.

Barncancerfonden supports research projects that can be expected to benefit children with cancer in Sweden. This includes both scientific research to improve care and increase survival rates, as well as research on complications, late effects and rehabilitation. The relevance for childhood cancer should be clearly stated inte in the application. This is particularly important for research with indirect relevance for childhood cancer, which may also be granted funding. In addition, funding may also be granted research projects that have the potential to aid next of kin or survivors of childhood cancer in Sweden.

Grant applications submitted to Barncancerfonden are awarded by a peer review process. Submitted applications are evaluated by independent research committees with respect to the research question, methodology, feasibility/merits of the applicant(s), relevance for children with cancer in Sweden, and when applicable the scientific report.

Within the call, applications for a new project or a continuation of a previously funded project are accepted. A continuation project is an extension of a project previously funded by Barncancerfonden. Reasonable modifications in the project approach are acceptable. An application for a continuation project must be submitted no later than two years after the project period of the original project was concluded. The application is otherwise regarded as a new project. A continuation grant based on an ongoing project may be applied for if the latter is finalized after the current call but prior to the next consecutive call for the same type of grant. The project number for the previously approved project must be stated in the application.


Eligibility to apply
Eligible to apply are clinically active persons employed in Swedish health care or equivalent. The applicant should hold a PhD or be accepted to a doctoral degree programme.

Co-applicants
After the imposition of the The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, also known as GDPR, Barncancerfonden has changed the handling of co-applicants. The following applies:

About the grant
The grant may only be used to cover the salary of the applicant during the absence for research. Allocated grants are calculated according to the current flat rate salaries of Barncancerfonden. Refer to the web page of Barncancerfonden under Apply for grants. The flat rate sums correspond to monthly salaries for full-time employments. The sum for part-time employments are adjusted according to the percentage of full-time employment applied for. 

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

Application period
Please refer to the web page of Barncancerfonden. Incomplete or late applications will not be evaluated. Note that the application system closes at 14:00 the last day for application.

Instructions for applying
The application system opens two months prior to the last day for application. A complete application includes a filled-in form and the following appendice as attachments in PDF file format: 

The project description may not exceed 6 A4-pages including references (12 ppt Times New Roman, single-spaced, automatic line break). 

The project description may be written either in English or in Swedish and should contain the information needed to evaluate the aim, originality and feasibility of the project.  

The project should have an overall aim and a number of specific goals. The aim may be visionary but the goals should be written as specific as possible. All project goals should be possible to fulfill if the project is fully financed (and the entire project period described in the application is granted). It is therefore of utmost importance that the application has a reasonable budget with respect to the proposed research. The project goals should be directly comparable to the final report where the progress and results from the project will be described.  

The project description should give a clear representation of its position in a national and international context. Do not refer to appendices since these are not considered.  

The project description should also specify if the project involves ethical issues and if these needs specific ethical considerations. The project description must also indicate if other permits and approvals are required for the project. The main applicant is responsible for ensuring that he required permits and / or approvals are obtained for the project or sub project. 

The project description should contain the following headings:
• Aim and goals; present the overall aim and the specific goals of the research project. 

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 by email 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: 


Special terms


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 

For questions, please contact:

Mariette Nordzell, Research coordinator
mariette.nordzell@barncancerfonden.se
08-588 923 46

or

Emeli Lundström, Research coordinator
emeli.lundstrom@barncancerfonden.se
08-584 209 03

It is also possible to write to:

forskning@barncancerfonden.se