The aim of these Grants is to support collaboration across EHPS countries and members in their research endeavours. We envision them as start up grants, which will catalyze initial stages of the development of collaborative research projects involving EHPS members in different institutions/countries (e.g., a small pilot study/meeting or a first part of a larger project). Currently we aim to fund initiatives that are of interest to our Society, by allocating every year a sum to start-up networking research projects. For the current year the available sum is 5000 Euros.

Deadlines:
Grants are announced via EHPS mailing list and website
Applications will be accepted until January 15th, 2013
Send your application to grants@ehps.net

Grant Selection process:
Proposals will be evaluated by a Selection Committee including three members of the EHPS Executive Committee and a SYNERGY member.

Selection criteria are:

• coherence with the aim of the Networking Grants
• interest for the EHPS
• scientific quality of the proposal
• adequacy of the resources

Results of the selection process will be communicated not later than December 24th, 2011.

Application procedure:
EHPS members from any country may apply. There is no limit on the number of partners involved, although partners from at least 3 different countries are required, with one of them acting as coordinator.
Applicants should submit a project proposal of 2 pages (single spaced, 12 font), including theoretical rationale and aims, design, method, participants, partners involved, available resources, budget and research timeline. If the research will be part of a larger project, applicants should provide a brief description of the larger project, and a more detailed description of the specific study for which they are applying for the Grant. Since Networking Grants are conceived as partial start-up for research initiatives, applicants are expected to find additional funding to carry out the project.
Application materials include: a 150 words abstract,  the project proposal and the CV of the partners involved (Coordinator and Co-investigators referents of the other groups).
Topics of projects should be of interest to the Society and consistent with the EHPS aims.

Report:
Recipients of the grants will be asked to write a final report on the outcomes of their project, describing how the EHPS Grant has contributed, and send an article to the European Health Psychologist. Recipients are expected to acknowledge the financial contribution of the EHPS on the publications emanating from the research.