Grants from the Nordic Cancer Union

We anticipate that the next deadline is 1 September 2012. Please check this website again in May 2012 for for information.

The Nordic Cancer Union (NCU) provides funding to support and stimulate collaborative cancer research within the Nordic countries. Researchers working in two Nordic countries or more must be involved in the project.The research projects must have cancer relevance, be uniquely suited to be carried out within the Nordic countries, and the effect of collaboration should be synergistic.

Funding was in 2011 restricted to research within the fields of 1) epidemiology, 2) health promotion and/or 3) rehabilitation of cancer patients. In addition, funding could be granted to projects that extensively promote Nordic cooperation within the field of cancer research. Please refer to section 4 in the NCU Strategy for more information.

Grants are provided for one year. Further support for the project will require new applications. As a general rule, project funding can only be renewed twice; a project can obtain funding from NCU for a total of maximum three years. We recommend that researchers who have received grants for three years or more for the same project put forward applications for new (different) projects. Evaluation is made by a Nordic scientific committee.

Completing the application

The application, written in English, must include the following:

        ·         Project description (maximum eight A4 pages, including references)

·         Brief Curriculum Vitae of the principal investigator (maximum two pages)

·         List of 20 most relevant publications from the last ten years

·         Interim report of on-going projects funded by NCU (if applicable) (maximum two pages)

Attachements other than those listed above cannot be included in the application. Please do not exceed the maximum number of pages quoted for the attachments.

You may contact Nina Hestnes on telephone +47 904 78 396 or e-mail ncu(at)kreftforeningen.no if you have questions.