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

Confirmation of the application
The application must be confirmed by the main applicant and the head of department, director or equivalent in order to be valid. The main applicant confirms the application in connection to submission. Note that this must be done before the closure of the call. The day after the call has closed, an email with a request to confirm the application is sent to the head of department, director or equivalent you have stated in the application. Confirmation must be done no later than 7 days after the call has closed.

If the application for some reason cannot be confirmed digitally, the first page of the application must be printed, signed, and 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.

Application period
Refer to the web page of Barncancerfonden. Note that the call closes at 14:00 the last day for application. Applications cannot be submitted after the closure of the call. 

Contact
For questions, please contact:
Kristin Mattsson, Research coordinator
Send e-mail to Kristin
073 - 866 53 34

or

Anders Höglund, Research coordinator
Send e-mail to Anders
08-584 209 31

It is also possible to write to:

forskning@barncancerfonden.se