Forty-eight applications for innovation funding for healthcare research projects were accepted in Germany

On May 17, 2024, the Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) announced that forty-eight applications for innovation funding of healthcare research projects were accepted.

The forty-eight applications that were accepted concerned the following topics:

• Health services research on group settings in the medicinal products sector: 3;
• Health care research on undesirable consequences of treatment: 6;
• Patient empowerment: 13;
• Health care research to improve care for people with hearing loss: 5;
• Care of patients with post-viral symptom complexes such as post-/long-COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): 8;
• Open topic: 13.

In total, the Innovation Committee received 236 applications for its two funding announcements (topic-specific and open-topic) of June 30, 2023 (changed on November 16, 2023). 155 of these related to the topic-specific funding announcement, 81 to the open-topic announcement.

The initial overview of the new projects is expected to be published on the Innovation Committee's website in June 2024, once the applicants have accepted the funding conditions and the decisions thus become binding.

The full details in German can be found here.

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