Phire – Public Health Innovation & Research in Europe

Appendix 4 - Email and letter from EUPHA office and president about PHIRE 1^st phase WP5

From: Floris Barnhoorn [mailto:[e-mail]]

Sent: 1 de February 2011 15:06

To:

Subject: PHIRE and Member Associations
Dear Governing Council Members,

In the EUPHA Governing Council Meeting of 11 November 2010, we informed you about PHIRE, a EUPHA coordinated project on Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe which will be implemented through collaboration of EUPHA Sections and Member Associations (see attached Summary document). The project has started now with the research activities and it we are now looking for contributions from our members.

We would like to ask you to forward, if applicable, the attached documents to your association’s Board or Secretariat.
In the letter, EUPHA's President Walter Ricciardi invites the member associations to collaborate in PHIRE and, in particular, requests the member associations to assist with the identification of a knowledgeable researcher who could complete the forms or questionnaires which are to follow in a few days time. The forms will be sent directly to the member associations by the Work Package Co-ordinators.
Thank you very much indeed for your co-operation.

Best regards,

Floris Barnhoorn

Senior Project Officer

EUPHA - European Public Health Association

Appendix 5 - Letter from EUPHA president to National Public Health Associations

Appendix 6 - PHIRE summary sent to National Public Health Associations

Appendix 7 – Second email from EUPHA office and president to National Public Health Associations

Email from EUPHA office and president to National Public Health Associations

From: Floris Barnhoorn [mailto:[e-mail]]

Sent: 14^th April 2011 16:21

To:

Subject: EUPHA project PHIRE
Dear EUPHA Members,
In the attached letter, EUPHA's President Walter Ricciardi extends his thanks to EUPHA member associations for their participation in PHIRE, our collaborative action to study public health research and innovation in Europe. Those that have not responded yet are invited again to join the project in this first phase of data collection. In the coming days you will be contacted by one of the regional work package coordinators.
Thank you very much indeed for your co-operation.

Best regards,

Floris Barnhoorn

Senior Project Officer

EUPHA - European Public Health Association

Appendix 8 – Second letter from EUPHA president to National Public Health Associations

Appendix 9 - Form with answers

PHIRE Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe Agreement Number 2009 12 14

PHIRE

Retrieval of national public health thematic research

programmes and calls

Please fulfil one form for each program or call

Please, save each filled form as ‘yourcountry-PHIRE-form-number’ – e.g. ‘Slovakia-PHIRE-form-1’

Country:

30 countries inquired (25 answers) ; 75 calls 16 countries with, at least, one call/program on PHR announced in 2010; 9 countries had no information on call/programmes opened in 2010

Name and Contacts of respondent

Name: Title: Email: Telephone number:

Please provide us this information, in case we need to contact you for clarifications

A - Identification of the funding thematic program or call for research projects

A1) Name of the commissioning agency which is launching the funding program/call

For identifying the relevant funding agencies from your country you can use the organogram and list of “Research Commissioners” which are described in the STEPS country profile available at http://www.steps-ph.eu/country-health-research-profiles/

Tables 6-18

A2) Name of the funding program/call for projects (please translate into English):

Tables 6-18

A3) Date of the program/call

We are looking for information on program/call which has been open (been communicated to the researchers) between the 1/01/2010 and the 31/12/2010.

Date the program/call was publically available (dd/mm/yy):	2010
Deadline for responding to the program/call (dd/mm/yy):	2010

B - Description of the program/call

Please provide in this section information on the following items when relevant
B1) Overall objective of the program/call

Please describe in one or two sentences the main goal or domain that the program/call is addressing

Tables 6-18

B2) Population targeted No answer 2

Please tick as many as necessary population group(s) explicitly addressed as target group(s) of the program/call

Age group: Children 3; Adult 0; Elderly 1; Children+adult 4; None specified 57; No answer 13

Gender: Men 0; Women 0; None specified 66; No answer 9

Other groups (e.g. drug users, ethnic minorities, …):

Specific groups of patients – 9; Vulnerable groups – 5 Adolescents - 3

B3) Specific focus of the program/call

If applicable, describe in more details the specific topic(s) or focus of the research program/call

Tables 6-18

B4) Scientific disciplines invited to answer the program/call

The program/call may be aimed at one or several disciplines e.g. economics, epidemiology, biostatistics,…

C - Funding and duration of the program/call

C1) Total amount of funding available from the program/call
This is the total amount of money that the commissioning agency has provisioned for funding all successful bidders provide to research project(s) within the program/call

Total amount available for the program/call:

[135.000€; 101.482.381€] No answer: 34

Please convert into € if necessary
C2) Amount of funding available for individual projects within the program/call No answer: 14

Minimum funding for one project:	No answer: 66 [3.200€; 5.674.595€]
Maximum funding for one project:	No answer: 53 [3.000€; 21.500.0005€]

Please convert into € if necessary

Not specified 30

Not applicable 4

No limits; Funding scheduled by objectives of programme.

C3) Percentage of co-funding requested from applicants own sources No answer: 18

Minimum of co-funding for one project:

0% - 9; 20% - 1; 25% - 2; 30% - 2; 50% -1

Not specified 42
C4) Expected duration of the projects to be funded

The program/call may indicate that e.g. project of no less than 12 months and no more than 36 months will be funded

No response 11

Minimum duration of projects:	no answer 54; 1 year-10; 2 years-6; 3 years – 4; 6 years-1.
Maximum duration of projects:	No answer 33 1 year-6; 2 years-8; 2.5 – 1; 3 years-13; 3,5 year-4; 4 years-4; 5years-5; 10 years 1.

Not specified: 17

Not applicable (please explain): 3

“no limits”

D - Eligibility criteria & other conditions to obtain funding

D1) Who can apply?

Choose all the suitable answers, please
D1.1) Nationality of research team

No answers: 6

National researchers 20

National plus other country researchers (Please specify which “other country”) 13

Other (please explain): 7

Not specified 31

D1.2) Status of research team

No answers: 7

Public institutions (please specify which): 50

Research institutions; Universities; Other public institutions with a research mission; Health care institutions

Private institutions (please specify which): 36

Note: all the calls where private institutions could apply also public ones could.

Research institutions; Partnerships with industry Enterprises Non-for-profit organizations Universities

Other (please explain): 3

Organisations with private-public ownership

Not specified 18

D2) Other conditions to be eligible: 30