Submit Applications for Tandem Programme (Denmark)

Collaborative project applications from one basic and one clinical researcher, that seek to stimulate the transition of basic research to clinical practice and vice versa are invited.

Focus Areas 

• One basic scientist and one clinical scientist must apply together for a project, which is clinically relevant, cross-disciplinary, and translational in nature, to catalyse improved treatment or diagnosis of patients, or understanding of underlying disease mechanisms. level, while they have maintained an association with clinical work and responsibility.

Funding Information

• A total of up to DKK 40 million is available for four grants between DKK 7 million and DKK 10 million for 4-year projects.

Eligible Expenses

• Salary for technicians, bio-analysts and other technical and administrative assistance
• Salary for postdoctoral researchers
• Salary for PhD students (tuition fee up to DKK 80,000 per budget year – must be specified/applied in the budget when applying for PhD salary)
• Salary for pre-graduate scholar, up to DKK 150,000 per budget year
• Operating expenses, e.g. lab consumables, chemicals and reagents, research animals, sequencing/proteomics and other analysis services directly related to the project.
• Bench fee, can be included in the budget for support of individual researchers to cover expenses needed to conduct the proposed research. Bench fee is calculated per academic employee actively working on the project and may only be used for expenses that are related to the research project and which cannot be included within another individual budget category. The budget must specify the expenses covered by the bench fee, which may include:
• Common or shared laboratory expenses and consumables, Laboratory utilities (electricity, gas, water), maintenance of essential equipment, service contracts, technical and IT support.
• Equipment required for the project, however not exceeding 20% of the total budget.
• Travel expenses in relation to the project, i.e. conference and workshop participation and presentation of research results, up to DKK 50,000 per budget year.
• Other travel expenses directly related to the project, i.e. experiments carried out in other labs for a limited period.
• Publication of results emanating from the research project, up to DKK 25,000 per budget year.
• Administrative support, up to 5% of, and included in, the funding applied for.

Eligibility Criteria

• The project must be anchored at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark.
• The main applicant must have his/her primary employment (minimum 75%) at a university, hospital or other non-profit research institution in Denmark. The co-applicant can be anchored in Denmark or abroad.
• Only applications where one basic and one clinical researcher establish a cross-disciplinary collaboration will be considered for funding. In this context, a clinical researcher is defined as a person with clinical responsibilities doing patient-centered research.
• It is crucial that the equal collaboration between the main- and co-applicant is very clear from the application
• The main applicant can be either the basic researcher or the clinical researcher.
• The clinical researcher must be active in the clinic and have current clinical responsibilities, i.e. not be employed in a full-time research position.
• The grant cannot cover the salaries for the main- and co-applicant. Therefore, the mainand co-applicant must be guaranteed his or her salaries for the entire applied project period.
• Both the main applicant and the co-applicant must receive a defined part of the grant budget, and this must be detailed in the application budget, and it must be clear from the application, how the project collaboration is ensured, and the work is distributed.
• The applied project must be of 4 years duration.

Application Requirements

• An applicant may submit only one application per call, and if you are main applicant on one application, you cannot be a co-applicant on another application. Also, you can only be co-applicant on one application.
• It is not possible to hold more than one active Tandem Programme grant as either main or co-applicant.
• An applicant may not submit identical/very overlapping proposals to different NNF calls within the same calendar year.
• The applicant must be able to account for own and co-applicant’s salary during the entire grant period applied for.

For more information, visit Novo Nordisk Foundation.