ACENDIO provides  pilot grant funding to support small international research teams that will conduct research to promote the visibility of nursing

• One grant is offered every two years.
• Funding is up to € 4.500 for two years.
• Only one ACENDIO Grant can be awarded per research group  

• The team must include members from at least 2 different countries

ACENDIO research agenda includes:

• Multi-centre studies exploring specific research topics on the development, use and evaluation of SNLs and eHealth
• Implementation of nursing diagnosis, intervention and outcome classifications in different specialty settings (e.g., psychiatric nursing, intensive care units, home health care)
• Access to patient data, collecting and using big nursing data
• Exploration of ethical issues (e.g., the common good versus privacy and the individual)
• The relationship, if any, between using nursing data and quality of care
• Documentation models, evaluation of standards-implementation (e.g., clinical decision support standard)

• User-perspectives on eHealth (e.g., competencies, informatics literacy, attitudes)
• Citizens-user studies, including eHealth-supported aging (e.g., assistive devices, ethical issues, informatics literacy)
• Education and nursing informatics competencies projects