Most rare pediatric diseases are chronic and entail severe impairment to a person’s health. Strong medication of different kinds, frequent visits to varying physicians as well as days or weeks in hospital have become a part of most patients and their families. The few specialists are often far away. Thus appropriate therapies and cures are left wanting. These are the reasons why Kindness for Kids launched the health care award, endowed with 40,000 Euro. By tertiary prevention, including medical and paramedical therapies, the award aims to minimize side effects and relapses and hence improve the quality of life for children with rare diseases.
Eligibility criteria
The Kindness for Kids Health Care Award is funding projects which aim to help improve the care situation for children with rare diseases sustainably, either through structural changes or new nursing, physiotherapeutic and psychosocial approaches. A scientific study ought to evaluate the concept and be published after project closure.
Applicable projects should meet the following criteria:
Innovative approach
Sustainable project concept
Dissemination of the project
Local, national and international networking
Scientific approach
Involvement of patient organizations
What won’t be funded?
Literature research
Basic research
Clinical research
Co-financing (unless funded project is clearly defined and delimited)
Symposia, meetings and conferences
Who can apply?
Students (of natural sciences), medical and paramedical staff, medical doctors and researchers from universities, hospitals, research institutes and NGOs from within Europe
How to apply
All applications are evaluated by our advisory board. The prize will be awarded on the annual conference of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine. Please contact us for further questions.
Click here to get to the application.
Advisory board
Prof. Dr. Georg Hoffmann – Direktor Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
Karl-Heinz Klingebiel - Ehrenvorsitzender Bundesverband Kleinwüchsige Menschen und ihre Familien e.V.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lang - Chefarzt Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Leiter der Neonatologie im Perinatalzentrum, Klinikum Starnberg
Prof. Dr. Jochen Peters - Chefarzt Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Klinikum Dritter Orden München