Deadline: 27 September 2017
The Kavli Trust is seeking proposals to provide funding to collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in child and adolescent mental health.
The evidence gaps were selected in three steps
- The Kavli Trust Strategic Scientific Committee identified 22 evidence gaps by searching for systematic reviews in selected databases
- The Kavli Trust User Panel provided their prioritization of the evidence gaps
- The Kavli Trust Board selected 10 evidence gaps for funding
Funding Information
The project can not apply for less than NOK 3 M or more than NOK 12.5 M in total for the project period
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, the projects must meet all the following criteria:
- The project must address one or more of the 10 selected evidence gaps.
- The research project has to originate from universities, academic institutions or research institutions or institutes in Norway, Sweden, Finland or United Kingdom.
- The formal applicant has to be an institution (host institution)
- The pre-proposal must be submitted by the principal investigator who must have formal affiliation to the host institution
- Funding from the Kavli Trust cannot be used for overhead and/or other expenses not directly related to the project
- The host institution must provide considerable in-kind contribution. In the full proposal a commitment letter, describing the nature and level of its contribution to the project must be attached
- The full proposal must be accompanied by a letter of endorsement signed by the heads of all collaborating institutions
- The research project must commit to user involvement by including two named user representatives as members of the research group
- Publications must be in accordance with the ICMJE recommendations and unrestricted access to the published output of research is a requirement
Selection Process
- Stage 1: Eligible applicants submit short pre-proposals (appr. 6.000 characters): All pre-proposals are screened by the administrative scientific staff and select 40 that go through to the Kavli Trust Scientific Review Committee (SRC) for peer review. The Kavli Trust Scientific Review Committee will review the pre-proposals by the following five criteria:
- Relevance and expected impact
- Scientific quality
- Feasibility
- Principal investigator/Research environment
- Leadership
- Stage 2: Appr. 10 applicants are invited to submit full proposals that will go through a final review by the same committee.
How to Apply
Applicants can register their documents via given website.
For more information, please visit Kavli Trust.