Scope of the call
This special call is issued within the WWTF instrument “supplementing measures” (“Ergänzende Instrumente”) specified in the WWTF Funding Guideline.
What is the purpose of the applications developed?
The purpose of the tools should be direted towards supporting research activities in broad sense.
What should be the output of the project?
The output should be concrete applications in the form of use cases, best practices, data sandboxes etc. and should include code, models, application prototypes and alike.
Activities that do not count as output:
- The preparation of concrete data sets for secondary / further use
- The creation of a network as a sole output
- Training and education acitivities as the sole output
- The installation of hardware
- Research that produces data
- Purely text-based outputs such as stategy papers
Potential User Groups and Exploitation strategies
Projects need to define
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.
Goals of the call
- Introduction and State-of-the-art
- Innovativeness and original contribution
- Research questions, objectives and/or hypotheses
- Methodological approaches and workplan
- Expected outcomes and potential next research steps
- Project team and interdisciplinary collaboration
- References
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.