Consortia Building

Build interdisciplinary consortia that combine complementary expertise to create competitive, collaborative research teams.

Vienna's ME/CFS research community is smaller than other medical research communities, but this creates unique opportunities for collaboration and form synergies between groups to form a critical mass.

The previous WWTF ME/CFS 2024 - Understanding ME/CFS call successfully funded seven projects by combining established researchers with newcomers to the field - demonstrating first synergies across different fields. WWTF welcomes cosortia who build upon these synergies, if possible.

For this call, we strongly encourage:

• Interdisciplinary consortia that leverage complementary expertise across different research areas
• International collaboration by including researchers and groups from other countries who bring essential skills or resources
• Community building by welcoming new researchers and research groups who want to contribute to ME/CFS research, but may have not been involved in this field yet