EHA Bilateral Collaborative Grant

The next call for applications will open on 9 June, 2025, at 12:00 (CEST).   

The EHA Bilateral Collaborative Grant supports collaboration between two independent research groups: 

  • With complementarity of expertise 
  • Showing a mutual need to answer a specific research question 

The grant: 

  • Lasts for a period of two years 
  • Provides an annual financial award of at €160,000 to be divided equally between the two research groups 

Eligibility

  • Both principal investigators (PIs) must be EHA members. 
  • Both PIs must be basic and/or translational researchers.  
  • Both PIs must be independent researchers or group leaders and have full appointments at academic institutes or proven equivalents. 
  • The PIs must conduct their research in two different countries in Europe.  
  • At least one of the PIs must be a junior independent group leader, within five years of conducting independent research.  
  • If an applicant is a physician scientist, at least 50% of their time should be dedicated to lab research.    

Unfortunately, you are not eligible if your proposal relates to:  

  • Purely clinical research projects 
  • Projects in health economics 
  • Other non-lab-based research

What an EHA Bilateral Collaborative Grant covers

You can use your grant for: 

  • Personnel costs, including the applicant or the costs of hiring other research staff to work directly on the project 
  • Lab consumables 
  • Small equipment  
  • Miscellaneous expenses, such as publication of your project’s results 

You must use some of your grant to pay for:  

  • Attendance at the EHA Congress whilst your project is active (maximum €2,000 per PI per year)  
  • A final audit of your project’s financial costs (maximum €2,000 per PI)  

You cannot use your grant to cover: 

  • Overhead costs  
  • Excessive travel costs 
  • Costs that are covered by another fund, even if new funding is acquired during the project, that make all or part of the grant redundant 

If you acquire additional funding, you must email us [link to grants@ehaweb.org] about this within 30 days of its awarding. You must also tell us how you’ll use the grants together.   

Topic-In-Focus Bilateral Collaborative Grant

If your research focuses on precision hematology, you can apply for a version of this grant known as a Topic-In-Focus Bilateral Collaborative Grant.   

Ensuring our whole community benefits

We’ve earmarked one grant for a collaboration that involves a country on our extending the reach of EHA Bilateral Collaborative Grants page.  

 

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