ORGIMP Organising impact

Health research plays a crucial role in improving quality of life and medical treatments, but the way research projects are organised and managed can significantly influence their impact. Organising Impact is a project investigating how health research funding organisations can follow up their projects to influence their later societal benefits.

In collaboration with the Norwegian Cancer Society, the Dam Foundation and the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health authority, we analyse data from annual reports, project descriptions, and interviews to explore how different approaches to funding, collaboration, and project management affect research outcomes. The project also follows selected research initiatives over a three-year period to understand how research processes evolve over time.

The goal of Organising Impact is to provide practical recommendations for research funders and policymakers on how to better support research that not only produces academic results but leads to tangible improvements in healthcare and society. We also seek to gain new fundamental insights into the process of doing externally funded medical research - what we may call "impact in the making".