Health Research Program of the Federal Government (Germany)
The federal government's health research program is a German government program to promote medical research. The program is jointly supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) and financed from the budget of the BMBF. Since 1978 there is updated content every few years and by the Federal Cabinet adopted . The Federal Government's current health research framework program will apply from January 1, 2019 and will define the strategic direction for the next ten years.
For the federal government, the framework program is the basis for funding medical research at universities, university clinics, non-university research institutions and commercial enterprises through financial grants . In addition to pure research projects , innovations and research structures are also funded.
The funds required for this are provided by the Bundestag in the annual budget laws. In the budget of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Section 30), title 685 30 “Health research and health economics” essentially serves to implement the health research framework program. The title has had the following expenditure volume in recent years:
| Budget year | Funding [million €] |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 251 |
| 2013 | 230 |
| 2014 | 210 |
| 2015 | 220 |
| 2016 | 239 |
| 2017 | 275 |
| 2018 | 322 |
| 2019 | 344 (target, as of January 14, 2020) |
| 2020 | 383 (target, as of January 14, 2020) |
The focus of research funding with these funds is currently (2020):
- Common diseases
- Individualized medicine
- Prevention and nutrition
- Health services research
- Health economy
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- ↑ Federal budget 2020, section 30 , pages 82–83. Retrieved January 14, 2020.