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Information Grants
EACTA has established an educational fellowship and/or a Research Grant funded to the level of 25000 Euros/year.
Research grant and clinical fellowship are open to application each year.
The EACTA Scientific Committee will evaluate applications provided they arrive to the Scientific Secretary (scisec@eacta.org) no later than October 31st.
EACTA Scientific Committee will score and rank applications (see below).
The final decision comes under the EACTA directory board on January according to the Scientific Committee advice and possible splitting of the annual grant.
Timetable:
- October 31st, the year before the annual grant : dead line for application
- End of January: Directory board final decision
Clinical Fellowship
The Clinical Fellowship will be awarded by EACTA after evaluation of the applications by the EACTA Scientific Committee.
The Clinical Fellowship will be available as one 12-month fellowship, or 2 6- month fellowship
Conditions:
- Applicants must be members of EACTA.
- Applicants must use the Clinical Fellowship Form, which can be downloaded from the Website or can be obtained from the EACTA Scientific Secretary (see deadline and address).
- Applicants must justify their application by stating what they hope to achieve in their fellowship, and how the fellowship would benefit them and their Institution. Supporting letters from home heads of department or hospital administrators would is essential.
- Applicants should be committed to/specialists within cardiothoracic anaesthesia. Priority will be given to candidates under the age of 40 years.
- The proposal must be to take the fellowship within a European country, but outside the country of origin of the applicant.
- Before successful application can be ratified, the committee will need to satisfy itself that there is adequate alternative support in place (i.e. where necessary subsidized accommodation, living costs etc), from the intending Institution. Supporting material must be presented, which must include details of compliance with any language tests, registration/insurance and other regulations that may be required.
- The award of a Certificate of Fellowship will be presented on completion of the fellowship, which will include presentation of an oral report to the general assembly of EACTA.
- Applications must be at EACTA Scientific Secretary (see deadline and address) before the announced deadline.
Research Grants
The Research Grant can be split in up to three minor grants.
The Research Grants will be awarded by the EACTA after evaluation of the applications by the EACTA Scientific Committee.
The research plan (see Research plan page) is aimed as a model for the research plan that the grant applicant should send together with the application to Scientific Secretary. Please include those items that are applicable in your study plan. If you already have another written plan that includes about the same items, you can send that plan instead.
Conditions:
- Applicants should be members of EACTA
- Applicants must use the Research Grant Form, which can be downloaded from the Website or can be obtained from the EACTA Scientific Secretary (see deadline and address).
- Each application must take the form of a formal research protocol, identifying the background to the project, the study hypothesis, and proposed methodology. Details of statistical method and power analysis for clinical studies must be included. Expected duration of the study, justified appropriately, should be included.
- Applicants should state whether the grant is for part or whole funding. Where part funding is sought, a successful application may be conditional on applicants providing documented evidence of successfully gaining the remainder.
- Applicants should provide evidence of seeking other alternative sources of funding. It should be noted that applicants would normally be expected to seek other sources, particularly in countries where these are widely available.
- Support from the applicants home Institution (e.g. letters of support from departmental heads, colleagues, hospital administrators) would be welcomed.
- Preference will be given to young researchers, either intending specialists or within the first years of appointment as a cardiothoracic specialist.
- Applicants must undertake to present their research findings to the EACTA at a free paper or other scientific session.
- Applications must be at EACTA Scientific Secretary (see deadline and address) before the announced deadline.
Scorring system
Scoring system in evaluation of EACTA educational fellowship and/or a Research Grant applications
The applications are evaluated in terms of following sub-criteria, yielding a maximum 5 points each. Thus, the maximum total score is 20.
- Educational/Scientific value (1-15), sum of the following:
- Originality (1-5)
- Scientific significance / Clinical significance (1-5)
- Appropriate study/educational design and methods to acquire the aimed result(1-5)
- Adequate material and human resources (1-5):
- Realistic financing plan (this is also a prerequisite)
- Laboratory and/or other methodological facilities
- Adequate time for the applicant allocated for clinical fellowship or research and/or needed auxiliary assisting/co-working personnel
Outstanding Research Prize
EACTA has established an Outstanding Research Prize. The prize is 3.000 Euros. The Outstanding Research Prize Research Grants will be awarded by EACTA after evaluation by EACTA Scientific Committee. The Scientific Committee would be free to co-opt other expert opinions as appropriate, but the Scientific Committee will make the final decision
The prize will be awarded once every three years for a research presentation made at an EACTA meeting judged to be the most outstanding study during that time period.
- The prize-winner must be an EACTA member at the time of the award.
- It would be probable (but not conditional) that the prize-winner would be drawn from the yearly prize-winners of the preceding meetings.
- It would be expected that the winning research would have made a fundamental contribution to the subspecialty, for example either by altering clinical practice, identifying a basic science mechanism or developing an important research method.
- The prize-winner may be invited to re-present the research either in its original format, or at greater length, or present recent developments resulting from their original research. Presentation of the prize is conditional on acceptance of one of these alternatives.
- On completion of the prize-winning presentation, a Certificate of Merit and money order will be presented.
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