Funding opportunities

5th joint call for European research projects on Rare Diseases (JTC 2013)

E-Rare is funding transnational collaborative research through yearly joint calls: The aim of the call is to enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project on rare diseases.
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ECRIN IA Call supporting multinational extension of clinical trials on rare diseases, medical devices and nutrition
ECRIN (European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network) has started to advertise on the ECRIN IA call.
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For further information, please refer to your national ECRIN European Correspondent, for Switzerland Dr. Caecilia Schmid.

A notice to applicants and online submission portal will be available soon.

The 2013-14 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice

Announcement of the Commonwealth Fund, in Collaboration with the Careum Foundation.
Application 2013–14 Swiss Harkness Fellowships (pdf, 59.6 KB)

PROGRAMME RARE DISEASES - NEW APPROACHES

An initiative of Gebert Rüf Stiftung
The research programme «Rare Diseases – New Approaches», started in 2009, invests CHF 2 mio. p.a. There is a yearly call open to researchers at Swiss universities, university hospitals, federal institutes of technology, research institutions affiliated with Swiss universities and universities of applied sciences. Calls are launched in early spring, application deadline is in summer, decisions are taken in autumn.
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