The EULAR Research Centre offers several funding opportunities for researchers and health professionals in rheumatology. Please find below more information about our ad-hoc funds (“Vouchers”), our dedicated Research Methods Grant, as well as other funding opportunities within EULAR and beyond.

Improving Research Methods, Capabilities, and Processes Grant

Focus on: Clinical RMD research methods

This grant is intended to support the development of new tools, approaches and protocols that increase quality, innovation and technology development in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) research. Research areas for which methods will be developed, may include all RMD research areas but should be focused on clinical, community, health outcomes, and/or health services research as well as implementation science.

Please note: For translational methods development, a separate call is anticipated in 2025.

Successful applicants will define practical challenges and barriers to the conduct of RMD research and propose the development of a solution that can be tested within the pilot project and/or with subsequent extramural funding. This EULAR Research Funding focusses on development and (future) implementation of methods, not on hypothesis-testing.

Preference and highest priority will be given to projects that demonstrate a clear path to sustaining extramural funding or to direct implementation of improvements in RMD research.

Budget: EUR 50,000 per project

Call opening: 16 October, 2024

Deadline: 04 December 2024 (23:59 CET) 

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Research Methods Grant Awardees 2023

The Voucher programme is a rapid funding scheme to help investigators cover ad hoc expenses or services in support of their ongoing rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) research projects. Three types of vouchers are available.

• EULAR’s bursaries, grants, and exchange opportunities
  Every year, EULAR awards bursaries for courses, educational visits, and scientific trainings to researchers and health professionals from European countries in the field of rheumatology.
  
  
• FOREUM Funding
  FOREUM is an independent fundraising institution for research funding based in Switzerland and supported by EULAR.

EU Funding Opportunities

• EULAR: Potential EU Health Research and Innovation Funding Opportunities
  This document provides an overview of EU health research and innovation funding opportunities relevant to EULAR activities, including information on the main funding instruments, sources of funding information, links to open calls and some project examples.