SPHN I Call for Demonstrator projects

The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) is launching his new call for proposals on “Demonstrator projects” aiming at using the SPHN infrastructures, processes, and frameworks, to demonstrate the utility and fit-for-purpose of those SPHN ecosystem elements and to identify gaps.

Demonstrator projects in the following two areas are eligible for funding:
 

1. Infrastructure components: Operational application (in daily practice) or transferability (to another setting) of infrastructure components, systems or tools developed locally along the goals of SPHN or as part of SPHN-funded projects

2. Routine healthcare data: Leveraging the potential and validating the use of routine healthcare data from the UH Clinical Data Warehouses (CDW) for translational and clinical research projects, clinical trials (proof-of-principle studies), or other real-world use cases

• Each proposal submission requires the designation of a main responsible for corresponding with SPHN and for setting up and managing the consortium.
• Main applicant and co-applicants need to be employed as PI / group leader (or similar) for the entire duration of the project at a higher education institution (ETH/EPF, universities, universities of applied sciences), or university hospital in Switzerland
• Co-applicants are fully eligible to receive SPHN funding
• Associated applicants are employed at other research institutions or hospitals. As a general rule, costs for all associated applicants combined should not exceed 20% of the total grant from SPHN.
• For-profit organizations can collaborate with a consortium led by a SPHN partner institution and may participate as co- or associated applicants on a project basis; however, they must cover their efforts with their own resources.

• Personnel costs, including costs of project management.
• Cost for services from data providers (e.g., Clinical Data Warehouses, multi-omics and other analysis platforms)
•  Equipment costs linked to the development and implementation of the research data management systems (IT hardware, software and licenses).
• Usage fees linked to the usage of IT resources.
• Costs related to information management and data analysis.
• Costs for disseminating results and implementing feedback loops to clinicians and other health decision makers
• No overheads shall be paid for SPHN-funded projects.

• Applications must align with the overall goals of SPHN and describe how the project will test, validate, consolidate or extend available SPHN infrastructure.
• Applications must be tightly coordinated with the respective infrastructure platforms and all data providers and data processors (e.g., BioMedIT).
• Adherence to the current valid version of the SPHN Ethical Framework for Responsible Data Processing and the SPHN Information Security Policy is a condition for receiving SPHN funding. The SPHN recommendations for Reporting Actionable Genetic Findings to Research Participants should be followed.

• Submission deadline: 31 August 2022 (23:59 CET)
• Final selection: End of November 2022