JGHFoundation Special Project Grants

Seeding grants help to foster initiatives such as Consensus Meetings, development of  Clinical Practice guidelines, co-operative research studies or training in gastroenterological techniques and procedures.

Decisions about requests to provide funding will usually be tested against the following parameters (based on stated objectives, plus some additional considerations):

• Value of the funding to research, education and/or training in gastroenterology and/or hepatology in the Asia Pacific region.
• Provide a stimulus for promoting practice standards and training in areas of need.
• 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 or seeding fund 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 they group will return all or a 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 guideline development) will be linked to a request that a resulting papers be offered to the Journal. In the case of the named lectures at APDW, the honorarium to the lecturer carries this is a specified condition of payment).
• Grants will usually be for a period of one year, less commonly for two years, and only considered for a longer period in exceptional circumstances. Applications for renewals for a particular project or activity (except those associated with support of a major meeting) will rarely be granted.