Awards

Guidelines for the Provision of JGHF Funding

When considering requests to provide funding, the Foundation will be guided by these principles:

• Value of the funding to research, education and/or training in gastroenterology and/or hepatology in the Asia Pacific region.
• Grants that are likely to have a wide benefit in the region will usually be preferred over those that have a more limited geographical benefit.
• Wherever there appears likely to be a leverage effect, so that awarding a priming grant will enable a group to obtain industry or other funding to carry out the research, education or training aim, there should be an understanding that the group will return all or part of the priming grant to the Foundation when the external source of funding eventuates (it is recognised that it is difficult to structure this expectation in a legally enforceable way).
• Grants for research activities (including guidelines development) will be linked to a request that a resulting paper be offered first to the Journal. (In the case of the named lectures at APDW, the honorarium to the lecturer carries this as a specified condition of payment).
• Grants will usually be for a period of one year, less commonly for two years, and only considered for longer periods in exceptional circumstances.  Applications for renewals for a particular project or activity (except those associated with support of the major meetings) will rarely be granted.