Guideline for the Promotion of Data Utilization Projects in the Field of eHealth
Grant for the promotion of interdisciplinary pilot projects for the multicenter use of health data sets from national data infrastructures (GFDI) for research purposes in the field of eHealth. Submission of project outlines by 27.02.2026 via easy-Online.
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Grant criteria
Funding objective
Funding of interdisciplinary pilot individual projects in which experts from data science and clinical health research collaborate with existing multicenter datasets from established health research data infrastructures to address health-relevant questions and provide impetus for the further development of national GFDI.
Eligible expenses
- Personnel expenses for health research
- Personnel expenses for data science/methodological collaboration
- Student assistants
- Contract costs (e.g., GFDI data collection)
- Material costs/consumables
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Eligible to apply
- Educational Institutions
Funding requirements
- Interdisciplinary team of data scientists and clinical health researchers
- Collaboration with a data integration center or comparable GFDI institution
- Submission of a project outline by 27.02.2026 via the easy online portal
Documents required for application
- Project outline (Phase 1 outline)
- Formal funding application Phase 2
- Template_Data_Usage_eHealth.docx
- Curriculum vitae of the project leaders
- Proof of feasibility analysis/consultation with GFDI
Evaluation criteria
- Innovative content of the data usage concept
- Interdisciplinarity of the team
- Relevance of the research question for the healthcare sector
- Quality and multicentricity of the datasets
- Practical relevance and further development of the national GFDI
Description
The guideline for funding data utilization projects in the field of eHealth supports universities, research institutions, and university hospitals nationwide in implementing interdisciplinary pilot projects for the multicentric analysis of health datasets. Two-year projects are funded, in which data science experts collaborate with specialists in clinical health research to address health-relevant questions. Cooperation with regional data integration centers or comparable institutions of the national health research data infrastructure (GFDI) forms the professional basis. A project outline must be submitted by February 27, 2026, via the easy-Online portal; upon positive evaluation, a formal application is to be submitted in the second stage. The funding measure includes grants for personnel expenses, student assistants, consumables, contract and travel costs, as well as a project lump sum.
The funding objective is to generate new insights through innovative data utilization concepts and to strengthen the national infrastructure. Particular emphasis is placed on the level of innovation, the interdisciplinarity of the teams, the relevance of the research question, as well as the quality and multicentricity of the datasets. The goal is to realize high-quality multicentric analyses in the short term, to demonstrate the added value of data utilization in the medium term, and ultimately to provide impulses for the further development of the GFDI. Applicants must submit, alongside the project outline, a curriculum vitae of the project leaders, evidence of the feasibility analysis with the GFDI, and use the provided templates to enable a targeted and comparable evaluation.
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