Deadline: 26 February 2025
The Versus Arthritis is seeking applications for the round one of Research Facilitation Fund.
Versus Arthritis has provided ‘infrastructure’ funding in a variety of ways, from the centre of excellence and experiment treatment centre funding models to clinical studies groups and smaller scale initiatives supporting training summer schools, networking, collaboration management and scientific meetings. The value of such ‘soft infrastructure’ support (beyond buildings, facilities, equipment, data platforms and portals) has been convincingly emphasised to the charity by the research community.
Focus Areas
- They anticipate that the Research Facilitation fund can bring impacts across any of these areas potentially.
- Patient and Public Involvement: the benefit that patients bring to the research itself.
- New knowledge: the research has changed what they know about arthritis.
- Intellectual property, products, and services: new innovations, treatments or tools which improve patients’ lives.
- Policy and Practice: the research is influencing how arthritis is treated or managed.
- Partnerships: new networks, partners and collaborations which extend research.
- Leveraged funding: new funding that has been awarded to continue the research they funded.
- Capacity Building: the investments are increasing the human or technical capacity to conduct research
Funding Information
- They plan to invest up to £1,500,000 across 3 rounds over 2 years, making 6-30 awards.
- Each round they expect to award up to a total of £500,000 across 2-10 awards.
- Each application can between £50,000 and £250,00 in value and can be for up to 5 years duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- The lead applicant must be based at an eligible UK institution, for further information see the guidance document. At least one applicant must have a permanent position within the lead institute.
- People with lived experience may be included as co-applicants.
For more information, visit Versus Arthritis.
