BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:FreeNovation – A funding program of the Novartis Research Found ation 2024 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240101 DTSTAMP:20260428T074428Z UID:2b26b3381de780b2b1ad9b44cd98a9fc4f94461e4221b11a7d4c4220 CATEGORIES:Call for proposal DESCRIPTION:FreeNovation provides funding opportunities for unconventional \, bold projects that have the potential to open up novel research directi ons and aim beyond incremental innovation and discovery.\n\nIn this year ’s call\, proposals in the following fields will be accepted:\n• From genetic associations to disease mechanisms\n• New molecular insights in gender medicine\n• To the roots: Mathematics to address biology\n\nProje cts should be relevant to biomedical research with an ultimate aim to prov ide innovative healthcare solutions for patients. However\, proposals must be unrelated to a business relationship with Novartis.\n\n1) General term s of the grant:\nGrants are for a period of 18 months and up to a maximum of CHF 180’000.\nIf positively evaluated\, a grant award is further cond itioned on reaching a written agreement between the Novartis Research Foun dation\, the applicant’s institution and the applicant on the following terms and conditions:\n• Applicant’s institution endorses the project and is accountable to administer the grant.\n• Applicant shall publish a ll results suitable for publication. In the spirit of FreeNovation\, the r esults shall be made available to the public without restricting use and f ree of charge (except for access fees of journals)\, and no patent applica tion will be filed for the results from the research conducted with the gr ant. • The grant activity shall include neither commercial activities no r be influenced by commercial interests\, and the planning and execution o f the grant activity shall be consistent with the principles of good scien tific practice.\n• All required notifications and required permissions\, licenses\, consents and/or approvals to perform the grant activity have t o be obtained.\n• Applicant provides a written and an oral report includ ing positive and negative results at the end of the funding period.\n\n2) Eligiblity of applicants:\nApplicants are eligible to submit a proposal if they fulfill all requirements below:\n• The applicant has a completed d octoral degree or equivalent qualification\n• The applicant is an employ ee of a reputable healthcare or healthcare-related organization\, universi ty\, university hospital\, or university of applied sciences\, in Switzerl and\, for the duration of the project\n• The applicant has the agreement of applicant’s institution to apply for this grant and carry out the pr oject if it is funded.\n\nIt is possible to submit a proposal together wit h a co-applicant who also fulfills these requirements.\n\n3) Application r equirements:\nApplications must be written in English and include:\n• Su mmary of the research project (max. 200 words\; and one slide using the te mplate provided on the submission portal)\n• Background and motivation ( max. 400 words)\n• Hypotheses and specific aims (max. 400 words)\n• No velty and potential application if successful (max. 400 words)\n• Descri ption of “truth telling” experiments\, i.e.\, hypotheses testing exper iments that will be conducted within the funding period and that will indi cate whether the original idea is valid or not (max. 400 words)\n\nApplica tions must be submitted online at https://novartisgrants.smapply.io/\n\n4) Deadline:\nInstitutional support letter: Please contact the EPFL Research Office for an institutional support letter before 8 March 2023.\nSubmissi on: 16 March 2024 (SUNDAY)\, 23:59h CET \n\nFor further information about the call\, please vist to the FreeNovation website\, refer to the generel description of the call\, the application guidelines (in English) and the EPFL Toolkit\, or contact Myriam Duckely (NOVARTIS) and the EPFL Research Office at research@epfl.ch. LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR