The ambition of the HEART4DATA consortium is to train and develop the talents of future leaders in cardiovascular care and research. Therefore, the consortium aims to provide various opportunities to stimulate and support talented researchers and cardiologists specialised in heart failure and atrium fibrillation in the Netherlands as they move forward in their career.
We are very pleased to announce the Heart4Data consortium cardiovascular fellowship call application. This program will be an opportunity to develop research skills in registry-based research in the cardiovascular area. The most outstanding project proposals will be awarded funding to perform their research, including funding to support their own personal research costs.
For this call we have budget available for three award-winning project proposals, the total budget for the call that is available is €75.000. Deadline for submission is February 14th 2025, with a latest starting date September 1st 2025.
Only proposals for retrospective-observational quality research projects using data from the Netherlands Heart Registration (NHR) will be accepted for this fellowship call. Only quality of care questions can be answered with the registry. We will prioritize project proposals that incorporate joint activities with other DCVA consortia, use data linkage with one of our partners (CBS, DHD or PHARMO) or that support the applicant in working at another institute within the Netherlands for a period of maximum 6 months. This fellowship will thereby support exchange of knowledge and strengthen bonds between institutes.
Download this call and the application form.
In order to apply, the applicant must contact the NHR to seek support from the account manager (info@nhr.nl) and one of the registration committee members. A feasibility check from the NHR account manager and a letter of intent from the registration committee member is required for the application. Award-winning project proposals will be assessed by the NHR scientific council and need to be approved before starting the project. The project is also subject to approval of the registration committee before starting the project and to make the resources available.
Budget should be spent on research time, salary costs and/or data linkage costs. A maximum of €3.500 from the budget may be spent on presentation / publication costs based on declarations of actual costs (including traveling costs, conference fee, publication fee, open-access fee etc.)
In case the costs exceed the amount awarded, applicants must show commitment from their institution to cover the rest of the costs. You are required to fill out a budget sheet when you submit your proposal (see regulations in the submission form). In addition, you must show a guarantee from your head of department of your position for the duration of the project.
The latest start date for the project is 1 September 2025 and the budget should be spent before 31 December 2026.
Please explain your research project on a DCVA scientific poster format. The poster should contain at least: candidate introduction, new research idea and motivation for research, why is this a quality-of-care question, which NHR registries will be used, project plans and statistical analysis plan, relevance/impact, value for the Heart4Data consortium and research vision/how this grant will help your career.
Please send your poster together with the submission form to data-infrastructure@dcvalliance.nl. Please provide details on the institute where work will be carried out, overview collaborators, budget, statistical analysis plan and sample size calculation on the submission form.
One of the grants is allocated to a medication data linkage Zorginstituut Nederland project from NHR, and we encourage interested candidates to submit an application for consideration. By linking the medication data of the Zorginstituut Nederland to the NHR intervention quality registries the quality question is to investigate the adherence to the guidelines in terms of medication retrieval at the pharmacy (as a proxy of use) after an intervention (CABG, PCI, AVR, TAVI, AVR+CABG, PM/ICD, ablation). This project will specifically focus on data linkage within the CBS environment. If you are interested in this project, please contact NHR via info@nhr.nl.
Each domain is scores by 3 internal and 3 external reviewers as follows:
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All submitted proposals will be checked for the criteria and evaluated by a review committee. The expected date for awarding the grants is during the NVVC congress April 10-11 2025.
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The fellowship call is funded by ZonMW and the Dutch Heart Foundation.
