National Societies
LINK Award Programme
UEG aims to promote closer ties with and between all its National Societies and to support them in their scientific and professional activities.
To fullfill this aim, the National Societies Committee has established this format to help fund cross-border projects co-ordinated by at least two UEG National Society Members. Direct benefit to these societies is at the core of this initiative and in 2013, UEG will support projects with funding totalling up to € 200,000.
Application is closed. Applicants will be informed about the status of their application by June 2013.
Aims
The aims of this initiative are to
- encourage the development of cross-border scientific & professional co-operations that have not yet been organised within the UEG community (for example development of clinical guidelines, cross-border fellowship programmes, etc.)
- strengthen relationships, knowledge and skills transfer between individual National Societies and with the UEG.
- support National Societies as a whole rather than individuals.
UEG National Society Members are encouraged to partner up and take advantage of this unique support scheme!
Examples for projects supported through this initiative are (but are not restricted to) based on:
- Shared best clinical practice (e.g. guideline development and sharing across national boundaries)
- Scientific collaborations crossing national boundaries that would not normally receive funding from individual National Agencies or the EU and that would provide added value to future submissions for cross-border EU funding (e.g. pump-priming activity in an Eastern European partner(s) for inclusion in a larger EU programme)
- Physical exchange and transfer of personnel/technology between National Societies (not just single Departments or Units) eg. Fellowship schemes, providing knowledge/skills transfer across Europe & the Mediterranean area with plans for wider dissemination of new skills and sustainability
- Collaborative initiatives from two or more National Societies to forge formal links and/or projects (f.e. audit/database development)
Involvement of additional partners
Apart from the two mandatory National Society partners, UEG encourages and welcomes the involvement of additional partners, such as:
- Further National Society Members
- UEG ordinary members
- Other scientific societies not formally affiliated with UEG
- Patient organisations
- Governmental bodies
- Commercial partners (intellectual and financial role of any commercial partner must be made clear and the commercial partner must at least equal the financial contribution from UEG)
Take a look at projects of the LINK Award recipients of 2012.
Development of a European Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Clinical Trials Network
Lead organising society: British Society of Gastroenterology
Co-operating society: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Gastro-Enterologie
Lead coordinator: Nicholas Croft, United Kingdom
Download the project description
HaPanEU
Harmonising diagnosis and therapy of pancreatitis across Europe
Lead organising society: Svensk Gastroenterologisk Förening
Co-operating society: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten
Lead coordinator: Matthias Löhr, Sweden
Download the project description
UEG National Societies Committee
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