Call Big Data & Health

Interdisciplinary consortia consisting of scientists and public/private partners can apply for funding to study the use of big data for the early detection and prevention of cardiovascular disease. Participation of endusers (citizens, patients and/ or (health)professionals) is mandatory.

NWO, ZonMw, the Netherlands Heart Foundation, the top sectors of Life Sciences & Health (LSH), ICT and Creative Industry, and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) and the Netherlands eScience Center have jointly taken the initiative to develop a public-private research programme in the field of big data and health. The programme promotes collaboration amongst relevant scientific disciplines and with the business community, in consultation with citizens, patients and (care) professionals.

The focus of the Big Data & Health Research Programme is the use of big data for the early detection and prevention of cardiovascular disease, within the frameworks of the Knowledge and Innovation Agendas (K&I Agendas) for ICT, Creative Industry and LSH. The research programme will support the ambitions of the Netherlands Heart Foundation, the Ministry of VWS and the Netherlands eScience Center, as well as those of Commit2Data for the top sectors of ICT, LSH and Creative Industry, as set out in those sectors' 2018-19 Knowledge and Innovation Contracts with NWO.

Deadline
The closing date for preregistration is 1 October 2018 14.00 CE(S)T and the closing date for submission of full applications is 8 January 2019, 14.00 CE(S)T.

For more information about this call, please visit the NWO website.