Research program with a focus on toxicity and late complications 

Purpose 
The purpose of the call is to enable national constellations of interprofessional researchers with complementary skills to work towards a common research goal, preferably with international collaborations. The goals of the research programs must be increased knowledge about toxicity and late complications and/or interventions for increased quality of life in children who have or will be affected by cancer. The programs must have high relevance for childhood cancer survivors and pediatric oncology, with a particular focus on neurocognitive, cardiovascular or fertility related complications. 
 
Description of the grant call 
The grant period can be applied for from one to four years. A total of 16 million is available to apply for in this call, which may finance one to two research programs. Programs that aim to produce isolated research results and that are seen as owned by individual researchers cannot apply for funds in this call but are referred to the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund’s regular project calls. 

 
Eligible to apply 

• Funding is sought by the main applicant in collaboration with all other participants as active co-applicants in the application system (step 2). 
• Main applicant has, or intends to locate, the main research in one of the Nordic countries. 
• Programs must include active researcher based in Sweden (main applicant or co-applicant). 
• Main applicant must have a Swedish PhD or an equivalent foreign degree. Co-applicants do not need to have a PhD. 

Co-applicants 
In the complete application, all participating researchers and other applicants must be active co-applicants in the application system. 

• The main applicant adds co-applicants to the application. 
• Co-applicants confirm their participation via a link in an e-mail message sent from the system after the co-applicants have been added. 
• Co-applicants who have not confirmed their participation must be deleted by the main applicant before the application is submitted. 
• The main applicant is responsible for adding CV and publication lists for the co-applicants. 

Information about the grant form 
The grant is a framework grant, unless otherwise stated in the decision letter. 
 
Administration 
The grant is to be managed by a Nordic university, college or hospital or alternatively another Nordic organization with research in collaboration with a university or college. The grant is only paid out to the main applicant’s administrative organisation, which distributes grants to other organisations. It is the main applicant’s responsibility to ensure that only one deduction for indirect costs is made per grant. 

Application content and documents  
The complete application should be written in English and include the main applicant´s CV and list of publications, a completed web form (including all co-applicant’s CVs and publications) and a program description as a mandatory attachment. The program description may cover a maximum of 10 A4 pages including references (12 pt) Times New Roman, single line spacing, automatic line breaks). The attachment must be uploaded as a pdf format and must not exceed 2 MB.
There may only be minor deviations between the draft application and the complete application. It is extremely important that the application contains a reasonable budget. 

The program description must contain the information required to assess the research program’s objectives, methodology, competence/feasibility and relevance to childhood cancer and childhood cancer research. The program must have an overall purpose and one or more clear goals. The purpose can be far in the future and be relatively visionary, but the goals must be written as specific as possible. The applicant’s competencies must be reflected in the research program that is presented. The goals must be formulated in such a way that if the program is fully funded, and if all the years applied for are granted, the goals for the program should have been achieved. The goals should be comparable with the results in the final report of the grant after the end of the program period. 

Research programs that are funded will be followed up annually in collaboration with the Swedish Childhood Cancer funds working group for toxicity and late complications (NAG-TSK). Do not refer to other attachments in addition to the program description, as these are not considered. The main applicant is responsible for ensuring that the program has the permits and/or approvals required before the program, or the relevant sub-program/project begins. 
 
The program description must contain the following headings.  

• Purpose and goal; a statement of the overall purpose and specific objectives of the proposed program. 
• Background: a summary of applicant's own research as well as other researcher’s previous results and knowledge in the research area. 
• Preliminary results: a description of the applicants’ preliminary studies and results within the research area. 
• Work plan; a summary of the program’s layout and timetable. Theory, method, and implementation must be stated. If different individuals are responsible for different parts of the program, it is recommended to divide the program into different work packages. 
• National and international collaboration: a clear description of complementary skills of co-applicants and collaboration with Swedish and international researchers/research groups or collaboration partners. 
• Relevance for childhood cancer survivors and childhood cancer research with a focus on toxicity and late complications within one of the three focus areas. 
• Ethical aspects. 
• The five most important publications in the field from main or co-applicants. 
• Most important literature references. 

Confirmation of the application 
For the application to be valid, it must be confirmed by the main applicant and the main applicant’s head of department, head of operations or equivalent. The main applicant confirms the application when submitted. Please note that this must be done before the call closes. The day after the announcement is closed, an email is sent to the main applicant’s head of department, head of operations or equivalent specified in the application with a request to confirm the application. The application must be confirmed no later than 7 days after the announcement has closed. 

Application deadline 
See the Swedish Childhood Cancer Funds homepage. Please note that the application closes at 14:00 on the last day of application. Applications cannot be submitted after the application has closed. 
 
Instructions 
Instructions on how to complete the application form can be found in the upper right corner of each tab. 

The application should be written in English with the following exceptions: 

• The popular science title should be written in Swedish. 
• The popular science summary should be written in Swedish. 

Special conditions 

• See ”Eligible costs” for which costs are approved for the grant form on the Swedish childhood cancer fund’s homepage. 
• See ”Policy for parallel grants” on the Swedish childhood cancer fund’s homepage. 

 
General conditions 
See separate document “ General terms and conditions” in the application portal. 

 
Contact 

Questions regarding the grant application, please contact:  
 
Email: forskning@barncancerfonden.se 

or 

Weronica Ek, Call manager 
Phone: +4672 853 73 64 
Email: weronica.ek@barncancerfonden.se