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NFOG FUND: An overview of Reports and grants given by the NFOG FUND

Below is the reports from people who have received grants from the NFOG fund. Get inspired.....			Go to Application view earlier reports from the discontinued Visitor programme and other grants
The list can be sorted. by clicking on the table column headings. (Amount and cover is not sorted correctly)
Categories (§): 1: Clinical or scientific visits outside country of residence with the purpose of improving skills and/or developing and sharing expertise. (n = Nordic, o= World) 2: Voluntary or project work in developing countries. 3: Courses outside the applicant´s country of residence. (n = Nordic, o= World) 4: Collaborative clinical or scientific projects between members of the national societies of NFOG. 5: Each national society can apply once per year for the coverage of expenses to bring one lecturer from another Nordic country to speak at one annual meeting arranged by the society.

Grant year	Category	Applicant(s)	Country	Purpose	Granted amount	Grant to cover:
2010	§3	Anne Veddeng	Norge	Masterstudies in advanced gynecological endoscopy, England	34000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§3	Katja Kero	Finland	Colposcopy course, England	7000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§1	Lotte Herling	Sweden	Research fellowship fetal ultrasound King’s College Hospital, London	10000	Travel expenses, accommadation 1 month
2010	§3	Hulda Hjartardóttir	Iceland	Sandbjerg meeting Denmark	9000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§1	Ligita Paskeviute Fröding	Denmark	Subspecialty training program in gynecological oncology, Lund, Sweden	3000	Travel expenses 1 month
2010	§4	Ulla Britt Wennerholm and co workers	Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark	CoNARTAS -Nordic database on ART and safety	73000	Travel expenses, accommadation and meeting expenses
2010	§5	Ali Shokouh-Amiri, DSOG	Denmark	Speaker at DSOG annual meeting, Anton Langebrekke from Norway	8300	Expenses to bring Anton Langebrekke to DSOG meeting
2010	§3	Anette Kjærbye-Thygesen	Denmark	Course: Active management of labour, Dublin	7000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§1	Antti Perheentupa	Finland	Study visit to learn technique micro-dissection testicular sperm extraction (MD-TESE), Japan	16000	Transport, accommadation
2010	§1	Titta Kristiina Joutsiniemi	Finland	Study visit clinical oncology, Lund, Sweden	9000	Travel expenses, accommadation
2010	§3	Gitte Bennich	Denmark	Course: Active management of labour, Dublin	7000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§3	Thea Lousen	Denmark	Course: Active management of labour, Dublin	7000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§3	Kathrine Birch	Denmark	Course: Active management of labour, Dublin	7000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§1	Maria Bohe	Sweden	Study visit, KK Womens and Childrens Hospital, Singapore	10000	Travel expenses, accommodation.
2010	§4	Birgit Bødker and co workers	Denmark; all-Nordic countries	Nordic Maternal Mortality Collaboration	56000	Travel expenses, accommadation and meeting expenses
2010	§3	Anke Zbikowski	Sweden	Course in Child-and Adolescent Gynecology, Germany	7000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§2	Karolina Velautham	Sweden	Voluntary Maternity project Kilinochchi District hospital, Sri Lanka	20000	Traveling expenses: accommodation.
2010	§4	Isis Amer-Wåhlin, Tore Henriksen and co-workers	Sweden, Norway	Nordic fetal monitoring collaboration project	80000	Travel expenses, accommadation and meeting expenses
2010	§1	Ebba Margrét Magnúsdóttir	Iceland	Study visit Pediatric Sexual Abuse Forensic examiner skills, San Diego, USA	15000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§4	Kevin Oppegaard and co-workers	Norway, Sweden, Finland, Austria	Nordic abortion collaboration study	50000	Travel expenses, accommadation and meeting expenses
2010	§3	Katarina Tunón	Sweden	Course: Fetal heart and perinatal management, Istanbul	6000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§3	Eva Spetz	Sweden	Course: Fetal heart and perinatal management, Istanbul	6000	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§1	Birgitte Baldur-Felskov	Denmark	Study visit and course Active management of labour, Dublin	10500	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2010	§1	Lars Henning Pedersen	Denmark	Clinical and research stay, fetal ultrasound, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.	17000	Travel expenses, accommodation
2010	§2	Vibeke Rasch	Denmark	Research, extent and consequences of unsafe abortion in Ethiopia.	19000	Travel expenses, accommodation
2010	§1	Isabella Freiling	Sweden	Study visit fetal ultrasound King’s College Hospital, London	10000	Travel expenses and accommodation 1 month
2011	§1	Eeva Ekholm	Finland	Essential Fetal Echocardiography course and 2 weeks clinical visit at Evelina Children´s Hospital London	16490	Travel expenses, accommodation.Course fee
2011	§1	Kaarin Makikallio	Finland	Research / clinical collaboration visit to The Hospital for Sick Children / Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. Placental insuffiency and aortic isthmus flow.	29165	Travel expenses, accommodation for one month.
2011	§2	Sophie Graner and Ingrid Mogren	Sweden	Research collaboration visit to Vietnam and report the findings of the thesis: Reproductive outcome in Vietnam. Perspectives and experiences by pregnant women and health care professionals on pregnancy promotion and maternal health care.	30000	Travel expenses, accommodation.
2011	§2	Gith Eng	Norway	Work at Haydom Lutheran Hospital Tanzania	8100	Accommodation, Nortalk, vaccination, resident permit and work permit.
2011	§2	Pekka Olavi Lahteenmaki, Finland. Teija Kulmala, Helen Laasonen, Merja Metsa-Heikkila, Juhani Toivonen and Arimo Vallasto	Finland	Introduction of levonorgestrel intrauterine system for public sector in Kenya.	4935	Travel expenses, accommodation
2011	§2	Paivi Lindvall Kannisto, Helen Strevens, Nana Wiberg, and Thomas Bossmar	Sweden	GMO project in Rwanda. A. Postgraduate education in deepened gynecological management of pelvic tumors. B. Preventive health care in pregnancy.	32000	Travel expenses accommodation.
2011	§2	Magnus Holmgren, Eva Wiberg-Itzel and Elisaeth Darj	Sweden	A prospective observational study of dysfunctional labor at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.	15000	Travel expenses, accommodation
2011	§2	Meseret Mengistu, Annika Lindström, Marta Sillber and Margaretha Pipper	Sweden	Knowledge transfer: Cervical transfer prevention, diagnosis and treatment in Ethiopia. An international work shop.	40000	Travel expenses accommodation
2011	§3	Ingvil Krarup Sörbye	Norway	Scientific seminar in Uppsala Sweden. Maternal Near Miss(svár maternal sjuklighet) – metodologiska utmaningar in lag- respective högresursomráden.	6200	Travel expenses accommodation
2011	§3	Charlotte Mumm Ring	Denmark	Course: Active management of labour, Dublin, Ireland	5000	Travel expenses accommodation, course fee.
2011	§3	Ragnheiður Baldursdóttir	Iceland	Course: Active management of labour, Dublin, Ireland	7000	Travel expenses accommodation,course fee.
2011	§3	Anne Veddeng	Norway	Master studies in advanced Gynecological Endoscopy, University of Surrey, UK.	14000	Travel expenses, accommodation,course fee.
2011	§3	Ritva Nissi	Finland	Course: Advanced course in colposcopy supervised by professor Albert Singer, London.	7000	Travel expenses, accommodation,course fee.
2011	§4	Lene Drasbek Huusom, Niels Jörgen Secher, Tom Weber, Morten Hedegaard, Jannie Dalby Salvig, Björn Backe and Per Olufsson	Norway, Sweden, Denmark	Administration of antenatal magnesium sulphate for prevention of cerebral palsy in preterm infants.	16800	One year: Travel expenses, accommodation, Travel expenses for primary investigators to visit involved departments.Meeting expenses.
2011	§4	Viveca Söderström-Anttila, Kristiina Aittomaki, Anna Hagman, Ulla-Britt Wennerholm, Christina Bergh, KG Nygren, Anne Loft, Anja Pinborg, Johan Hazekamp and Liv Bent Romundstad	Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark	Delivery outcome and health risks after oocyte donation in Turner women – A Nordic study.	50000	Travel expenses, accommodation, meeting expenses.
2011	§5	Ove Axelsson on the behalf of SFOG	Sweden	Plenary lecturer, Merete Mazzarella, Finland at SFOG veckan in Karlstad 31.8.2011.	6000	Expenses of bringing Merete Mazzarella from Finland to SFOG –veckan in August.
2011	§5	Antti Valpas on the behalf of SGY	Finland	Sören Brostöm, to speak at the SGY annual meeting in Kuopio 17-18.11.2011	7000	Expenses of bringing Sören Bröstöm from Denmark to the SGY annual meeting in Kuopio in November 2011.
2011	§5	Toril Kolás on the behalf of NGF	Norway	Carl Nilsson to speak at the NGF´s annual general meeting in Álesund 9.9.2011.	7500	Expenses of bringing Prof Carl Nilsson from Finland to the NGF annual general meeting in Álesund September 2011
2011	§1 o	Algirdas Markauskas	Denmark	Expert training in gynecological oncology, Birmingham, UK	10000	Travel expenses and accommodation up to 1 month
2011	§1 o	Susanne Greisen	Denmark	Clinical visit to Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Deutchland. Urogynecology	8000	Travel expenses and accommodation up to 1 month
2011	§1 o	Kresten Rubeck Petersen	Denmark	Clinical visit to Portland Hospital, London and a RCOG course in paediatric and adolescent gynaecology.	11245	Course fee, travel expenses and accommodation
2011	§1 n	Kristiina Tertti	Finland	Clinical visit to Dept of Obst & Gyn of University Hospital in Trondheim, fetal ultrasound	12000	Transportation and accommodation.
2011	§1 n	Pia Suvitie	Finland	Clinical visit to the National Endometriosis Center in Uppsala, Sweden	3700	Transportation and accommodation
2011	§1 n	Carita Edgren	Finland	Clinical visit to the National Endometriosis Center in Uppsala, Sweden	3700	Transportation and accommodation
2011	§1 n	Antti Perheentupa	Finland	Clinical visit to the National Endometriosis Center in Uppsala, Sweden	3700	Transportation and accommodation
2011	§1 n	Juha Mäkinen	Finland	Clinical visit to the National Endometriosis Center in Uppsala, Sweden	3700	Transportation and accommodation
2011	§1 n	Kaisa Kurkijärvi	Finland	Clinical visit to the National Endometriosis Center in Uppsala, Sweden	3700	Transportation and accommodation
2011	§1 n	Riikka Aaltonen	Finland	Clinical visit to the National Endometriosis Center in Uppsala, Sweden	3700 Grant not used	Transportation and accommodation
2011	§1 o	Rolf S. Kirschner	Norway	Visit to recognised centres in vulva suregery, London and Israel	18000	Travel expenses, local transportation and accommodation
2011	§1 o	Tórur Dalsgaard	Denmark	Subspecialty training in robotic surgery in USA	9350	1 month of accommodation
2011	§2	Margit Endler	Sweden	Voluntary work Obstetrics Cape Town, South Africa	19000	Transportation and accommodation. Clinical visit, not a 3. world project.
2011	§3 o	Elina Vuori-Holopainen	Finland	Course “Training day and advances in paediatric and adolescent gynaecology” RCOG London	7000	Registration fee / travel expenses / accommodation 1 month.
2011	§3 o	Jan Palmø	Denmark	Course in Advanced Techniques in Operative Gynecological Endoscopy, IRCAD	7000	Registration fee / travel expenses / accommodation 1 month.
2011	§3 o	Susanna Jaakkola	Finland	Advanced Colposcopy Course in London	7000	Registration fee / travel expenses / accommodation.
2011	§3 o	Mette Holm Ibsen	Denmark	Active Management of Labour course in Dublin	7000	Registration fee / travel expenses / accommodation.
2011	§3 n	Eva Glud	Denmark	5.th Nordic Specialist Course in Palliative Medicine	32077	Registration fee, transportation and accommodation for 3 modules in 2012.
2011	§3 o	Riikka Aaltonen	Finland	IRCAD course in advanced prolapse surgery	7000	Registration fee / travel expenses / accommodation.
2011	§4	Kevin Sunde Oppegaard et al	Norway, Finland, Sweden	Nordic abortion collaborative study	16650	Travel expenses, accommodation, meeting expenses
2011	§4	Lotte Berdiin Colmorn et al	Denmark and all nordic countries	NOSS – Nordic Obstetric Surveillance Study	26900	Travel expenses accommodation. For two meetings
2011	§4	Mette Haase Moen and Per Olof Janson	Norway, Sweden	Clinical practice guideline about caretaking of gynecological patients with genital malformations or endocrine disorders	50000	Travel expenses accommodation, meeting expenses
2011	§5	Pernille Steiner for DSOG	Denmark	Nordic speaker at the annual meeting for Young Obstetrics and Gynaecologists in Denmark (FYGO).	5000	Travel expenses accommodation, speakers fee.
2011	§1 o	Satu Tarjanne	Finland	Clinical visit Sydney and learn new methods in endometriosis diagnosis	20836	Travel expenses, accommodation,
2011	§1 n	Helga Medek	Iceland	Study visist Malmø and Copenhagen	10000	Travel expenses, accommodation,
2012	§1	Ritva Hurskainen	Finland	Clinical visit to Lund, dept of ultrasound.	15000	Travel expenses, accommodation
2012	§1	Liv Cecilie Vestrheim Thomsen	Norway	Research stay in Perth Australia as a part of PhD project in the genetic background of preeclampsia, cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndrome.	25000	Travel expenses, accommodation for one month
2012	§2	Annette Aronsson	Sweden	Study on PPH and aorta compression in Uganda	16400	Travel expenses accommodation, meeting expenses.
2012	§3	Rama Saha	Sweden	Course: Twin analysis course in Denmark.	10000	Travel expenses accommodation, course fee.
2012	§3	Claudia Bruss	Sweden	Course in medical ethics Imperial College London.	13380	Travel expenses, accommodation, course fee.
2012	§3	Sami Saarelainen	Finland	Course: 3D Ultrasound course in Nottingham England	7000	Course fee.
2012	§4	Ulla-Britt Wennerholm, Mika Gissler, Anja Pinborg, Liv Bente Romundstad	Swedwn, Finland, Denmark, Norway	CoNARTAS: Committee on Nordic ART and safety.	74800	Travel expenses, accommodation, meeting expenses.Two meetings in 2012, NFOG members only.
2012	§4	Martin Rudnicki et al	Denmark, Norway, Sweden.	One year outcome using the Ajust system for treatment of urinary stress incontinence.	51000	Travel expenses, accommodation, meeting expenses. 2 meetings in 2012
2012	§5	Anette Tönnes Pedersen on the behalf of DSOG	Denmark	Eszter Vanky, to speak at the DSOG annual meeting in Middlefart 20-21 April 2012	14274	Expenses of bringing Eszter Vanky from Trondheim to Denmark to the DSOG annual meeting in Middlefart in April 2012.
2012	§5	Kevin Sunde Oppegaard on the behalf of NGF	Norway	Reynir Tómas geirsson to speak at the NGF´s general annual general meeting in Tromsö 26.10.2012.	7500	Expenses of bringing Prof Reynir T Geirsson from Iceland to the NGF annual general meeting in Tromsö October 2011
2012	1 n	Sariola Anna-Paula	Finland	Clinical visit to Haukeland University Hospital Bergen, Norway.	10.400	travel accommadation
2012	1 n	Christian Moberg, Ragnheidur Árnadóttir	Sweden	Clinical visit to University Hospital, Turku, Finland	5.500	travel accommadation
2012	1 o	Johanna Hynninen	Finland	Clinical visit to Chárite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany	12.000	travel accommadation
2012	1 o	Isa Niemann	Denmark	Clinical visit, subspecialist training in Groningen, Holland	9.750	travel accommadation.
2012	1 o	Lars Henning Pedersen	Denmark	Ultrasound estimation of the foetal heart function. Research fellowship Sydney, Australia.	25.000	travel and accommadation upto 4 weeks
2012	1 o,3 o	Ligita Paskeviciute Frøding	Denmark	Advanced Upper Abdominal and Bowel Cadaver Surgery Workshop and clinical visit to Department of Gynecological oncology at St. Louis University Hospital, Missouri	18.000	Travel, accommodation and course fee
2012	2	Pernille Tine Jensen	Denmark	A three-week educational training course in gynaecological cancer surgery at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Tanzania.	15.070	travel and accommadation
2012	3 n	Alexander Kr Smárason	Iceland	Severe complications at delivery, Epidemiology, management and cases, Nordic Advanced Course for Obstetricians, Copenhagen.	5.115	travel and accommadation
2012	3 o	Peter Secher	Denmark	AAGL course: Workshop on video assisted and robotic laparoscopy and hysterectomy	3.500	For partly covering course fee
2012	3 o	Solveig Brixen Larsen	Denmark	Laparoscopic gynaecological Surgery, advanced course with training on live tissue, 3-day course in Strasbourg.	7.000	To cover registration fee / travel expenses / accomodation.
2012	3 o	Riikka Aaltonen	Finland	EUGA course in perineal ultrasound	7.000	accomodation.
2012	3 o	Kasper Pihl	Denmark	Active Management of Labour	7.000	registration fee / travel expenses / accomodation.
2012	1 o	Jone Trovik	Norway	Research stay at Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong. Individualized therapy based on molecular alterations in gynaecologic cancer.	7.500	travel expenses
2012	1 o	Juha Mäkinen	Finland	Research and clinical visit to Endometriosis Centre in University of Sydney, Australia	20.000	travel and accommadation
2012	4	Ulla-Britt Wennerholm	Sweden Denmark Finland Norway	CoNARTaS: Committee on Nordic ART and Safety	60.000	Two meetings in 2013, accomodation, travel and meeting expenses.
2012	4	Kevin Sunde Oppegaard	Norway Sweden Finland	Nordic abortion collaborative study	51.000	Two meetings, accomodation, travel and meeting expenses.
2012	4	Lotte Berdiin Colmorn	Nordic	NOSS – Nordic Obstetric Surveillance Study	49.000	Three meetings of the collaboration group. Accomodation, travel and meeting expenses
2012	4	Eszter Vanky	Norway Iceland Sweden	Metformin treatment of pregnant PCOS women and prevention of preterm birth “The PregMet 2 study”	20.000	Three meetings of the collaboration group. Accomodation, travel and meeting expenses
2012	4	Thomas Bergholt	Nordic	“Nordic Robson Collaboration Group”	60.000	Two meetings, accomodation, travel and meeting expenses.
2012	4	Lone Krebs	Denmark Norway	Perinatal outcome in term breech delivery in Norway and Denmark – a comparison between two countries, with different rates of intended vaginal delivery	9.200	To cover accomodation and travel expenses.
2012	4	Henriette Svarre Nielsen	Denmark Finland	Sex of prior children and subsequent miscarriages and obstetric complications	20.000	To cover accomodation and travel expenses plus meeting expenses
2012	5	Sigrún Hjartardóttir for FIFK	Iceland	Professor Harald Moi from Oslo to speak at the annual meeting of FÍFK: Review of Venerology in Scandinavia today, what’s new?	8.500	To cover accommodation, travel expenses and fees.