Inviting applicants to submit complete funding applications
01.08.2016 12:58
The Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) has decided on a further procedural step for the total of 296 submitted project outlines for health services research. The applicants with the most convincing concepts are now asked to submit fully formulated and complete funding applications by August 25, 2016, which can be decided upon after a final review.
The topic-specific and open-topic research projects in this first wave of funding are aimed at gaining knowledge to improve existing care in statutory health insurance.
The project outlines submitted to the project sponsor DLR (German Aerospace Center) and deemed eligible for funding by the Innovation Committee thus reach the second stage of the application process. “The wide range of these research projects shows that the objectives of the innovation fund addressed exactly the right field. In many cases, the applications contain important questions and innovative approaches to solutions, which we hope will have far-reaching implications for improving care,” said Prof. Josef Hecken, impartial chairman of the G-BA and chairman of the Innovation Committee.
The full applications from the field of health services research that must now be submitted will be checked for completeness after the deadline and assessed by the expert advisory board, as the G-BA announced. The innovation committee should then evaluate the formulated funding applications and decide on the eligibility of the projects for funding.
The first applicants should be informed of the results of the application review by the Innovation Committee as early as the fourth quarter of 2016. Positive funding decisions can then be made on the website Innovation Committee at the G-BA can be viewed.
In the meantime, the application deadline for submitting applications for the first wave of funding in the area of new forms of care has also ended, together with applications for scientific support for existing selective contracts (according to Section 92a Paragraph 2 Sentence 3 SGB V for contracts in accordance with Sections 73c and 140a SGB V in the version valid on July 22, 2015) and to evaluate the SAPV guidelines of the G-BA. A total of 138 applications were submitted here.
According to the G-BA, 107 applications were submitted in the second wave of funding in the area of new forms of care.