What we fund
The Foundation in particular welcomes applications that can advance treatment recommendations, education or implementation within:
- Resuscitation
- Trauma
- Maternal and/or newborn care
50 % is earmarked for projects or programs to save lives at birth in low-resource settings.
We are also funding education research projects at, or in collaboration with the SAFER simulation center in Stavanger.
Factors that can strengthen the chances of funding:
- High impact, including potential for scaling
- Synergies with other programs the Foundation is supporting
- Matching funding/multicenter collaborations
- Strong CV of principal investigator and mentor
What we do not fund
Applications with one or more of the following characteristics:
- No novelty – done before
- No hypothesis or weak methodology
- Ethically unacceptable or strongly questionable
- Only of local interest
- Relates solely to acquisition of equipment
- Building of hospitals or health centers
- Commercial interests
- Applications considered to have unrealistic budgets
- Congress participation, traveling support
- Vaccination, contamination microbiology
Relating to Saving Lives At Birth in low-resource settings:
- Projects outside perinatal and newborn period
- Lifestyle or general maternal diseases during pregnancy
- General family planning programs