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.