Planned Activities

Planned Activities

This programme is designed to bring together the critical mass of different institutions in Northern Europe who already have complementary high level expertise in today’s highly specialized electrocardiographic AF research. At present, research efforts are dispersed – concentrated in different groups, in different countries, in different disciplines, funded under different systems. By assembling a unique and highly structured group and combining complementary expertise and skills across Northern Europe, this programme aims to more rapidly build up new knowledge in AF patho-mechanisms, and to develop novel technologies and concepts for their diagnosis and subsequently treatment. Shared use of facilities, materials and methods between different institutions, one Nordic survey and joint tasks will allow both more efficient work progress as well as higher level and more specific knowledge gain than what could be achieved in a single institution or with smaller-sized projects.

By its character and activities this programme supports:

• structuring European Research Area (survey, joint projects)
• structuring Higher Education Area in Northern Europe
• fostering trans-European co-operation and European integration
• increasing European competitiveness
• increasing the pool of highly-qualified reserachers and physician-scientists
• increasing awareness in the scientific community and among the general public

The main activity of this programme is directed to educate and train junior researchers in complementary research methods not available to them at their institution through exchange grants, typically covering a one month fellowship. This initiative is further enhanced by short visiting grants for senior researchers (see table for details). The goal of both activities is, on the one hand, transfer of knowledge, on the other hand, they are intended to initiate joint research projects that make use of complementary research methods and foster a Nordic network survey. These grants will be made available through the Steering Committee.

Currently, educational activities (congresses, meetings, workshops etc.) are to the major extent covered by events organized by the European Society of Cardiology, European Heart Rhythm Association, and Nordic Societies of Cardiology. Subsequently, there will be only one additional one-day research symposium per year covering programme specific research activities followed by a Steering Committee meeting both of those adjacent to a major Nordic congress.

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