The Agora 3.0 innovation grant creates an annual opportunity for excellent health technology research proposals to use the Agora 3.0 infrastructure and services for free. Our team initiates its innovation grant for excellent early career stage researchers and scientists.
Each call will be announced at the beginning of September of each year, with a deadline for submission at the end of December. The Agora 3.0 faculty will select two projects based on scientific excellence, innovative potential and compliance to the Agora 3.0 and the Cypriot Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) philosophy using pre-defined reviewer templates. The two projects will start at the beginning of March of the respective next year and will last 6-12 months. Technology transfer, help with legal issues and exploitation and dissemination of the results will be guaranteed upon successful termination of the projects.
The Agora3.0 (https://www.agora3.com.cy) is a research project funded by the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) of Cyprus. As part of the Agora3.0, there is the opportunity to host two researchers with an innovative research idea at the German Medical Institute (GMI). Two projects will be selected based on its scientific merit, its innovative potential and its ethical compliance to the Agora 3.0 and RIF philosophy.
There will be two grant application calls, each with different criteria. The first call concerns those who completed their undergraduate/graduate and/or within the first year of doctoral studies. The second call concerns those who completed their doctoral studies. The current call is the first out of the two calls and is open to candidates who meet the following criteria:
1. Completed their undergraduate/graduate or within the first year of PhD degree in any of the following fields: artificial intelligence in health care, healthtechnology, prospective clinical trials, clinical data management, biomarkerresearch, or other related field.
2. Are under the age of 40.
3. Can work for a duration (full or part-time) of 6 months on the winning project.
The Innovation Grant provides the opportunity for the selected young and early-career researcher to gain access to the GMI facilities, knowledge/expertise, data and/or use of equipment. The grant will further enable the researcher to co-author collaborative work,as well as collaborate with researchers and staff at GMI and partners of Agora3.0 on their project and future research endeavours.
Application process
Interested candidates need to develop a 2-page long project proposal which has thefollowing mandatory structure:
1. Title of the project.
2. Full name of the applicant and personal information including affiliation, email address and telephone number.
3. Short synopsis of the work (350 words maximum).
4. Main hypothesis and/or objectives of the project.
5. Methodology to be used.
6. Budget calculation and timeline.
7. Reference to important literature (please highlight your own work, if applicable).
Please send your application to research@goc.com.cy addressed to the GMI Research Office with Agora3.0 Innovation Grant Application followed by your full name on the email title.
If you have any questions, please contact research@goc.com.cy addressed to the GMI Research Office and with Agora3.0 Innovation Grant Query on the email title.
The application’s deadline is 27th of April 2025.
Selected candidates will be invited for an interview discussing their proposals, and a total of two grants will be awarded. Each selected candidate is expected to commence their project in June 2025, or by September 2025 depending on circumstances.
The project is co-funded by the EU within the framework of the Cohesion Policy Programme “THALIA 2021-2027”.
