Helping save lives
Supporting research that helps prevent needless death within maternal and newborn health, resuscitation, trauma, and emergency care
Our focus
The Laerdal Foundation provides financial support to practically oriented research projects aimed at helping prevent unnecessary loss of life from sudden cardiac arrest, trauma, and during birth.
We prioritize projects with high, lifesaving potential and have earmarked 50% of the grants to research that can help save lives in low-resource settings.
How to apply
We hold two application cycles, annually, with deadlines on April 1 and October 1.
You may apply for funding in the following categories:
Saving lives in low-resource settings
For research aimed at reducing preventable mortality and improving care in low-resource settings
Impact
Over the years, the Foundation has supported more than 2,000 research projects with over 400 million NOK.
Examples include more than 50 Utstein expert meetings, establishment of five Global Resuscitation Alliances, more than 200 published papers related to Safer Births, and seed funding to the World Health Organization’s Acute Care Action Network.
Decades of research for helping save lives
The Laerdal Foundation was established in 1980 to provide support for research projects that can help prevent needless deaths from sudden cardiac arrest, trauma, and during birth.
The Foundation shares the mission with the Laerdal companies of helping save lives but operates independently under the regulation of the Norwegian Foundation’s Act.
Our focus areas
- Saving lives in low-resource settings.
- Improving reporting of data as basis for improved care: Utstein Formula for Survival.
- Fostering promising hypotheses related to updating of the ILCOR guidelines for Emergency Cardiac Care and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
- Strengthening international/multicenter collaborations for improved education and implementation.
- Advancing the implementation of the Global Resuscitation Alliance’s initiatives.
- Progressing projects at or in collaboration with the SAFER simulation center in Stavanger.
Grant allocation
The Foundation grants up to 40 million NOK annually across four categories, with the expected distribution shown in the figure.
