Scope of the call

This special call is issued within the WWTF instrument “supplementing measures” (“Ergänzende Instrumente”) specified in the WWTF Funding Guideline.  

This call invites researchers from the biomedical, computer and clinical sciences to submit small interdisciplinary research proposals that advance knowledge of the etiopathogenesis, diagnostics and/or therapy of post-acute infectious diseases like ME/CFS. Projects investigating overlapping features from other diseases showing clinical post-exertional malaise are also eligible. This is a special call for exploratory projects that seek to generate preliminary data.

Research Data and Data Management

“Research data” in the context of WWTF funded projects include, but are not limited to: study protocols, observations and measurements, results of experiments, metadata, software codes, hyperparameters, images. All research data produced in the context of WWTF-funded projects (i.e., owned by the involved researcher) should be made accessible according to the FAIR principles[6] via a repository to facilitate the reproduction of results. WWTF requires applicants to reflect on data management in the application process.