Phire – Public Health Innovation & Research in Europe

Appendix 1 - Distribution of the countries by partners

Countries	Coordination of geographical areas
Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Iceland	French School of Public Health (EHESP Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique) Olivier Grimaud Martine M. Bellanger Cláudia Conceição (Work package coordinator)
Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark	Institute of Hygiene, Lithuania Laura Narkauskaitė (June) Rasa Varvuoliene (June) Vytenė Jankauskienė (left in June 2011) Vytautas Jurkuvėnas (left in May 2011)
Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Ireland	Ministry of Health, the Elderly and Community Care (MHEC), Malta Marvic Sammut Amanda Bugeja
Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia	Slovak Public Health Public Health Association (SAVEZ) Zuzana Katreniakova

Appendix 2 - 1^st phase WP5 letter sent by email to National Public Health Associations’contacts or other national contacts

Dear Dr /Mr /Mrs / Professor ….

PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe) is a new collaborative action between EUPHA members and is co-funded under the second Public Health Programme. Its general objective is to contribute to the improvement of public health knowledge and practice across the European Union by assessing the impact and uptake of the first Public Health Programme and structuring information on public health research.
First phase of PHIRE is aimed at the collection of data in order to provide a description of what public health research is supported through national programmes or/and calls.
We are seeking especially for information on thematic areas of public health research (research fields) which are currently being financed through national programmes and calls (named in different ways by commissioners as “programmes”, “calls”, “calls for research proposals”, “calls for grants”, “programme grants”, “project grants”). We are not seeking information on public health programmes or calls on scholarships, seminars, scientific conferences, training, and grants for visiting researchers, bursaries or postdoctoral awards.

We are sending you a form and kindly ask your collaboration in fulfilling one form for each national public health thematic program or call open in 2010.

We are aiming to have on-line database ready by mid September and to be presented in EUPHA annual meeting in Copenhagen (November 2011).

We would most appreciate that you could send us the filled forms by 15 April 2011.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We thank you for your collaboration and look forward to hearing from you,

(Partner signature) and contacts (phone)

PS We also send in attachment your country profile that was obtained with STEPS (Strengthening Engagement in Public Health Research, http://www.steps-ph.eu/country-health-research-profiles/). This might be of assistance in the identification of relevant funding agencies in your country

Definition of Public Health Research used on SPHERE

Public-health research operates at a complex level between scientists, individuals and society. And the issues that public-health research addresses – how to improve the health of the population, and how to ensure the effective and efficient organisation of health care – are of direct concern to governments themselves. For SPHERE, the following definition of public health research, which gave a broad meaning, was used: "Public-health research refers to the organized quest for new knowledge to protect, promote and improve people's health. It: • is undertaken at population or health services level, in contrast to laboratory (cellular) or clinical (individual) health research; • differs from public-health practice (which also uses scientific methods), as it is designed to obtain generalisable knowledge rather than to address specific programmes for service delivery; • is usually goal-oriented, addressing questions of policy relevance, and may be published in either academic journals or reports; and • uses a range of observational methods, including surveys, registers, data sets, case studies and statistical modelling, and draws on disciplines including epidemiology, sociology, psychology and economics, and interdisciplinary fields of environmental health, health promotion, disease prevention, health-care management, health-services research and health-systems research." (BMC Public Health 2009, 9:203 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-203)

Appendix 3 - Form

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:

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/

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

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):
Deadline for responding to the program/call (dd/mm/yy):

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

B2) Population targeted

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

Age group:  Children  Adult  Elderly  None specified

Gender:  Men  Women  None specified

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

B3) Specific focus of the program/call

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

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:

€

Please convert into € if necessary
C2) Amount of funding available for individual projects within the program/call

Minimum funding for one project:	€
Maximum funding for one project:	€

Please convert into € if necessary

 Not specified

 Not applicable (please explain):

C3) Percentage of co-funding requested from applicants own sources

Minimum of co-funding for one project:

%

 Not specified
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

Minimum duration of projects:
Maximum duration of projects:

 Not specified

 Not applicable (please explain):

D - Eligibility criteria & other conditions to obtain funding

D1) Who can apply?

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

 National researchers

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

 Other (please explain):

 Not specified

D1.2) Status of research team

 Public institutions (please specify which):

 Private institutions (please specify which):

 Other (please explain):

 Not specified
D2) Other conditions to be eligible:

E – Link to website where further information on this program/call can be accessed

F – Additional comments

Should you have further information or comments on this program/call, please add it here


Thank you very much for your collaboration