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Steno National Collaborative Grant

Call opens
1 November 2024
Call closes
23 January 2025 2:00pm (CET)
Announcement of results
Stage 1 Expression of Interest: April 2025
Application guidelines Send ansøgning

Purpose

With this call, the Novo Nordisk Foundation wishes to strengthen the collaboration between the Steno Diabetes Centres and the research environments related to the Centres. The foundation will support research projects with a unifying mission to develop knowledge, to exchange experience across the research institutions and to facilitate synergy between the research environments around the Steno Diabetes Centres including collaborations from hospitals, universities and other non-profit institutions in Denmark and/or internationally.

The Steno National Collaborative Grant aims to:

– Strengthen clinical research between all Danish Steno Diabetes Centres.

– Ensure large-scale, long-term, patient-centred clinical research projects involving a national cohort of diabetes patients or people at risk of diabetes.

– Position Denmark at an international level in improving prevention and care for persons with diabetes or at risk of diabetes.

Collaborative projects are essential for obtaining the grant. For this specific call the collaboration must include partners from the five Danish steno centres. The application must describe how the collaboration is pivotal in addressing the challenge, as well as how each applicant contributes to the research project. This collaborative nature should be evident in the description of the project.

Areas of Support

The research projects must be collaborative and focus on diabetes within the area of:
– Clinical research translating promising strategies, methods and treatments for diabetes
and/or prevention of diabetes into large-scale protocols.
– Research within the characteristics of the Steno Diabetes Centres, including digital
health and diabetes, continuity in patient care, type-2 diabetes, health promotion
research, education, and vulnerable diabetes patients.

About the grants

Amount

DKK 25 million

Committee

Komite for Endokrinologi og Metabolisme

Contact

For grant inquiries
Kristina Rohde Larsen
Grant Manager
[email protected]

Eligibility   

The research project must be collaborative with a unifying vision and focus on solving a challenge within the area of clinical diabetes research. Due to the collaborative purpose of the grant, the research project must bring researchers from all five Danish Steno Diabetes Centres together. This must be accomplished by establishing and/or using national cohorts with patients/persons at risk from all regions. International collaborations are strongly encouraged.

The Main Applicant
– The main (the PI) applicant must be anchored at a Danish Steno Diabetes Centre.
– The main applicant must have documented experience with leading large-scale clinical
research projects.

Co-applicants
– It is required that co-applicants from the four additional Danish Steno Diabetes Centres
participate substantially in the project.
– In addition to the five Danish Steno Diabetes Centres, additional co-applicants from
Steno Diabetes Centre Greenland, Steno Diabetes Centre Faroe Islands, a Steno Partner
institution or from a university, hospital, municipality or other non-profit research or
diabetes care institutions in Denmark or abroad can also be part of the project.

Funding 

A total of DKK 25 million is available for one grant for a five-year project.

Application process 

There are two stages in the application process. Stage 1: The project description for Stage 1 consists of a brief Expression of Interest of the proposed research project, addressing the aim and hypotheses. A budget is not required for Stage 1. Stage 2: Up to three research projects will be invited to proceed to Stage 2, in which the main applicant will be asked to submit a comprehensive application with a detailed project proposal of up to 30,000 characters. As part of the Stage 2 evaluation, the main applicant will be invited to present and discuss their proposed research project with the review committee on 19 August 2025.

Please make sure to read the Application Guidelines thoroughly before sending your application. The Guidelines provide crucial information about the grant, application content and process.

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