Project procedures
Procedures for setting up new
projects
The Fund can invite certain researchers or research
institutes to draw up proposals and submit them for financing.
Researchers can also contact the Fund and submit a proposal
themselves. In both cases, a phase of broad orientation will take
place before an elaborated proposal can be drawn up and submitted.
During the orientation phase it is explored whether the idea is
viable enough to be turned into a project and whether there are
possibilities for financing, perhaps together with another –
potentially larger – fund.
Assessment
After they have been submitted, proposals are
presented to two experts in the field in question. These experts
assess the scientific value of the proposal if it is a research
proposal, and the possible effects if it is a project with a more
practical purpose. The experts give their opinion anonymously. They
report to the Fund with a copy of their anonymous report provided to
the party submitting the proposal. Their opinion may lie anywhere between immediate
acceptance and rejection, and it may contain suggestions for
improving the proposal.
The experts are recruited during the deliberations which the
Foundation organises in relation to its scientific plan. With their
permission, the experts’ names will be listed as part of the
Foundation’s Group of Advisors.
Decisions
After the assessment by two experts, and perhaps after improvements
by the party submitting the proposal, the Board of the Foundation
decides whether funding can be provided for the proposal. It takes this decision, in part, on the basis of
the assessment and also on the basis of what the Foundation sees as
important social priorities. The objective of the Fund for
Scientific Research of Sexuality is to make scientific research
financially possible. The primary aim is improving the
sexual-emotional health of children and young people and learning
about development processes in children and young people leading to
sexual-emotional health.
Updated: 09.02.2011
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