to award funding

10.10.2016 10:32

The Central Institute for Statutory Health Care in Germany (Zi) is accepting project outlines for selected subject areas until November 21, 2016. Incoming project outlines are reviewed by an external scientific advisory board. The Zi board then decides on the allocation of funding. A total of €250,000 is available to support research work in 2016.

The call for expressions of interest as well as a template for formulating project outlines can be accessed on the ZI homepage under the following link:
http://www.zi.de/cms/fileadmin/images/content/PDFs_alle/F%C3%B6rderrichtlinie_ZI_2016.pdf

For 2016, applications will be accepted from the following three subject areas:

• Topic 1. Big data approaches, data mining, and other modern approaches 
  for information processing in the evaluation of routine data
• Topic 2. Merging routine data at the individual level
• Topic 3. Use of routine data to map treatment effects
• Topic 4. Free topics: Routine data evaluations with current and  
  content relevance

The board of the Zi decides on the acceptance and funding of research applications after consultation with an external scientific advisory board. A total funding volume of a maximum of €250,000 is available for 2016. As many research proposals as possible that have been positively assessed by the advisory board should be funded. Expressions of interest can be submitted to:

Mr. Dr. Dominik Graf von Stillfried  
Managing Director  
Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance in Germany  
Herbert Lewin place 3  
10623 Berlin
Email: [email protected]