The RCF's funding for clinical research boosts clinical research and promotes clinical research careers.
The funded clinical research projects are built around scientifically high-quality and ambitious research plans that are implemented by a consortium of three or more research teams.
The aim of the funding is to increase cooperation between researchers working in wellbeing services counties and researchers at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences.
The funding contributes to producing new research-based knowledge to support social welfare and healthcare, disease treatment, diagnostics and prevention, or business activity. The funding also improves clinical research skills across a wide range of specialties by encouraging physicians or other healthcare professionals engaged in clinical patient work to do part-time (20–50% of working hours) research.
The four-year funding may cover salary costs and other research costs.
The principal investigator of the entire consortium and the subprojects of the clinical research project must also have other significant scientific merits in addition to a doctoral degree. An exception is a consortium or subproject PI engaged in part-time clinical patient work, who must be a physician or other healthcare professional who has completed a doctorate.
