The Covid19 pandemic is leading to major changes in society, healthcare and the economy worldwide and poses major challenges for all of us. To coordinate Covid 19 research & disseminate best practices, the "Network of University Medicine (NUM)", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), was founded in early 2020.

Goals

The network bundles the expertise of the 36 participating university medical centres in Germany. This enables a quality-assured and rapid response to the Covid-19 pandemic and future crises, and creates new reasearch finding, which help to improve crisis management and patient care.

The focus of NUM is placed on clinical and health care research and on the development of guidelines and best practices. The aim is to provide patients with optimal care and to create a Germany-wide infrastructure for clinical research and studies.

Funding phases and projects

In the first funding phase (ended December 31^st 2021), scientists from all over Germany worked together in a total of 13 nationwide cross-clinic research projects (FKZ: 01KX2021). The first funding period was funded with 150 million € by the BMBF. The second funding period started on January 1^st 2022 and runs until June 2025. The six basic infrastructure projects, twelve research line projects and three ad-hoc projects will receive a total of €240 million in funding from the BMBF over this period of time (FKZ: 01KX2121). Further information on the projects in which Oldenburg University Medicine is involved can be found here.

Further information on the University Medicine Network and all current projects can be found here.