Health Services Research funding programme
With the ageing of the population and the increasing prevalence of chronic disorders, the healthcare system now faces a wide variety of challenges. If complex services are to be effectively delivered in the health sector, a sound scientific knowledge base is required. Health services research aims to generate precisely this kind of knowledge by studying patient care and health care under real-life conditions, developing new concepts on this basis, and testing them in practice. Health services research seeks to bridge the gap between biomedical/clinical research on the one hand and medical interventions performed under everyday conditions on the other; the subject of this field of research is, as it were, the «last mile» to the patient.
Health services research is becoming increasingly important at the international level. With the aid of this funding programme, the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Stiftung (Bangerter-Stiftung) and the SAMS hope that health services research will also become more widely established in Switzerland. To this end, the Bangerter-Stiftung is making available around CHF 1 million per year for the period 2012–2016.
The following funding instruments are available:
- Seed money: For the elaboration of project ideas, implementation of pilot projects, development and evaluation of methods, etc. (one-time award of a maximum of CHF 25,000 per application)
- Project funding: For the implementation of research projects (in general, a maximum of CHF 100,000 per application per year, for no longer than 3 years)
- Personal scholarships/loans: Visits abroad for training or continuing education purposes for young scientists in the health services research field (in general, a maximum of CHF 40,000 per person per year, for no longer than 2 years; half of the sum will normally be awarded as a scholarship and half as a loan)
Regulations
Areas eligible for support, funding criteria as well as detailed information concerning the programme are summarized in the regulations.Application forms and submission
Application forms can be downloaded from the Website of the Bangerter-Stiftung and should be handed in via email at info@bangerter-stiftung.ch.Deadline for submission is March 1 and September 1.
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, Petersplatz 13,