Young@Heart: empowering the next generation of cardiovascular researchers
Hoes, M F; Te Riele, A S J M; Gladka, M M; Westenbrink, B D; van Hout, G P J; van den Hoogenhof, M M G; Ghigo, A; Bollini, S; Purcell, N H; Sohaib, S M A; Kardys, I; Kuster, D W D
(2020) Netherlands Heart Journal, volume 28, issue Suppl 1, pp. S25 - S30
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Abstract
In recognition of the increasing health burden of cardiovascular disease, the Dutch CardioVascular Alliance (DCVA) was founded with the ambition to lower the cardiovascular disease burden by 25% in 2030. To achieve this, the DCVA is a platform for all stakeholders in the cardiovascular field to align policies, agendas and
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research. An important goal of the DCVA is to guide and encourage young researchers at an early stage of their careers in order to help them overcome challenges and reach their full potential. Young@Heart is part of the DCVA that supports the young cardiovascular research community. This article illustrates the challenges and opportunities encountered by young cardiovascular researchers in the Netherlands and highlights Young@Heart's vision to benefit from these opportunities and optimise collaborations to contribute to lowering the cardiovascular disease burden together as soon as possible.
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Keywords: Cardiovascular research, Dutch CardioVascular Alliance, Early career researchers, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Review, Journal Article
ISSN: 1568-5888
Publisher: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Note: Funding Information: In the Netherlands, cardiovascular research is mainly funded by the government through the Dutch Research Council (NWO, all disciplines) and the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), as well as the Dutch Heart Foundation. These parties have formulated priorities in an agenda to direct current and future research. Their support consists of opening various funding opportunities and by hosting courses, workshops and events. Various recurring grants are awarded to support research at levels ranging from individual researchers to multicentre national consortia. To further expand this approach, the Dutch Heart Foundation and NWO/ZonMW, together with the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) collectively launched the Netherlands Cardiovascular Research Initiative (CVON) in 2010. This program was aimed at forming multicentre national consortia in a collaborative effort to enable excellent translational research and valorisation within preselected themes over 5 years. The CVON initiative was later expanded with additional partners to officially form the Dutch CardioVascular Alliance (DCVA) in 2018. Today, these partners include all universities, patient organisations, physician associations, and funding partners ( https://DCVAlliance.nl/ ). The DCVA will continue to support ongoing CVON consortia and new DCVA consortia will be launched. Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge Daphne Bloemkolk (Dutch Heart Foundation) for her careful reading and helpful suggestions. Publisher Copyright: © 2020, The Author(s).
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