FAQs
FAQs
What is the NUM?
The Network University Medicine (NUM) is a national network in which all 36 German university medical centres participate.
Originally established to deal with the Covid 19 pandemic, the NUM focuses on building a national and sustainable research infrastructure for medical research. With a focus on clinical research and healthcare research, the NUM aims to secure and support patient care, research and teaching in the current, but also in future crisis situations.
Why should I get involved in the NUM?
1. Development and establishment of infrastructures for clinical research (nationally and locally)
2. Third-party funding for conductin scientific projects
→ high approval rate of the scientific proposals
3. Networking
→ researchers have the opportunity to build a nation-wide network with renowned (medical) researchers
4. Publications
→ Authorship on paper by contributing research expertise or collected and provided data
I am interested and would like to get involved in the NUM. How do I become part of the NUM?
There are several ways to get involved in the NUM:
- Scientific research projects
This website provides information on all ongoing sub-projects of the NUM with the participation of the UMO. If you are interested in participating as a collaboration partner, please us.
- Discipline- and Organ-specific Working Groups (FOSA)
The FOSAs have the intention to support and promote the (inter-)disciplinary exchange between researchers from different disciplines and medical fields. In addition, FOSA members can actively participate in shaping the NUM. If you are interested in joining or founding a FOSA, please us. You can find more information here.
What are the Local Coordintion Units (LCU)?
The Local Coordination Unit (LCU) supports the researchers by coordinating the NUM scientific projects. They are the link between Oldenburg and all its NUM members and associates and the Central Coordination Unit (CCU) in Berlin.
If you are interested in participating in the NUM or need support with an NUM project, please us.
What is the difference between a national task force, coordination centre and local staff unit?
All three are part of the organisational structure of the NUM.
National Task Force (NTF)
The National Task Force is set up to manage the network.
Its members are representatives of selected university medical centres (e.g. deans), the BMBF and the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).
The members of the National Task Force are appointed by the BMBF for the duration of the research project.
Coordination centre (KS)
A nationwide coordination centre has been set up at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The Charité acts as a hub between the NTF, non-university stakeholders, the BMBF, the project organiser (DLR-PT) and the participating locations.
Local staff units (LokS)
The LokS are local organisational units at the respective participating locations and coordinate the projects and concerns of the NUM at and for the respective location.
How can the LCU support me and my project?
One of the main tasks of the LokS is to support local researchers. We are happy to assist you in your NUM research project with the following tasks:
- Budgetmanagement
Support with research applications, budget management. Joint preparation of all relevant documents for the proposals.
Ensuring funding requirements - Preparation of projects
Support with ethics and data protection issues and preparation of the relevant forms, documents and applications - Personnel management
Support with recruitment of project personnel - Coordination of the projects
Support in the communication with project, CCU or with (external) partners locally/nationally
What is the NUM Hub and how do I get access to it?
The NUM Hub is an internal area on the NUM website and provides information about NUM in general, the individual sub-projects and access to the NUM Cloud.
If you are part of University Medicine Oldenburg, you can register for the NUM Hub here .
If not, the local staff unit can help you further. Please feel free to us!
