Michael L. Boninger, M.D., director of the University of Pittsburgh Model System on Spinal Cord Injury, will serve as keynote speaker at the 2015 Rehab Week Valencia about the research prize for the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation on the field of neuro-rehabilitation. The prize is awarded for current scientific research work in the field of neurological rehabilitation of people with acquired damage to the nervous system. The focus of the work should be on post-clinical long-term rehabilitation, and we are particularly interested in interdisciplinary rehabilitation strategies and methods, as well as the examination of scientific effectiveness and efficiency (outcome research), and how these developments meet the special needs of rehabilitation providers, funding bodies and political institutions (socio-economic effects). Learn more about the prize below.
The Board of Trustees of the Fürst Donnersmarck-Foundation Berlin, which is dedicated to the rehabilitation of people with physical and multiple disabilities, awards a research prize for neuro-rehabilitation.The prize money of EUR 30,000 can be distributed between more than one winner. An additional five commendations may also be awarded in the amount of EUR 3,000.
The prize is awarded for current scientific research work in the field of neurological rehabilitation of people with acquired damage to the nervous system. The focus of the work should be on post-clinical long-term rehabilitation, and we are particularly interested in interdisciplinary rehabilitation strategies and methods, as well as the examination of scientific effectiveness and efficiency (outcome research), and how these developments meet the special needs of rehabilitation providers, funding bodies and political institutions (socio-economic effects).
You may submit academic dissertations and theses, published project reports, book publications and specialist journal articles which have been completed within the past two years. The prize will be awarded by the Board of Trustees of the foundation on the basis of the recommendation of a jury made up of scientists and doctors working in the field of rehabilitation.
In your application, please enclose the following documents as pdf-files:
1. The scientific paper(s) or dissertation, with a summary
2. A justification for the submission in terms of the goals of the prize
3. Curriculum vitae with scientific career
The decision of the trustees is final and cannot be contested.
Applications must be submitted by 30 June 2015 to: forschungspreis@fdst.de
For further information please click on www.fdst.de/researchprize-2015-the-announcement/
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