Timeline

History of the NUM Study Network

08/2025 Receipt of the grant notification for the Specialty Network Infectious Diseases in the framework of NUM 3.0 for the implementation phase and second funding period (07/2025-06/2030).

05/2025 Receipt of the grant notification for the NUM Study Network in the framework of NUM 3.0 for the implementation phase and second funding period 07/2025–06/2030. Ten more study sites join the NUM Study Network. Preparations for the initiation of the Specialty Networks Critical Care and Stroke are ongoing.

10/2024 First submission of a proposal for the continuation of the Specialty Network Infectious Diseases as part of the NUM Study Network in the framework of NUM 3.0

10/2024 First submission of a proposal for the continuation of the NUM Study Network in the framework of NUM 3.0 – including support for the development of the Specialty Networks Critical Care and Stroke.

07/2024–06/2025 Development and piloting phase of the NUM Study Network and the Specialty Network Infectious Diseases with fifteen study sites.

11/2024 Receipt of the grant notification for the piloting phase of the NUM Study Network and the Specialty Network Infectious Diseases

05/2024 First submission of a proposal for a NUM Study Network including a Specialty Network Infectious Diseases

01/2024 NUM Convention 2024: Further discussions on a national recruitment infrastructure within the framework of “Grand Challenge 3: A German one-stop shop for clinical studies and clinical epidemiology”

09/2023 Feedback received on concept paper for a national study network

07/2023 Concept paper for a national study network – “Konzeptpapier Nationales Studiennetzwerk”

History of the National Pandemic Cohort Network NAPKON (precursor infrastructure of the NUM Study Network)

Since 01/2025 Continuation of the NAPKON Use-and-Access procedure

12/2024 End of patient follow-up in all three cohorts of NAPKON

12/2023 Last patient recruited in the cross-sectoral platform (NAPKON-SUEP)

05/2023 Last patient recruited in the population-based platform (NAPKON-POP)

03/2023 Last patient recruited in the high-resolution based platform (NAPKON-HAP)

05/2023 NAPKON.vention: Recapitulation of experience and needs analysis for further planning of a sustainable recruitment infrastructure

01/2022-12/2024 NAPKON.v2

• Spin-off of the methodological cores and the research data infrastructure as an independent project of the NUM infrastructure line: NUKLEUS (NUM Clinical Epidemiology and Study Platform)
• Spin-off of the FOSA as a permanent component of the NUM
• Continuation of NAPKON.v2 as a recruitment network and prospective cohort study on COVID-19

11/2020 First patient recruited in NAPKON

08/2020-12/2021 NAPKON.v1

• NAPKON consisting of governance, cohort structure, and methodological cores: Interaction Core Unit (ICU), Biosample Core Unit (BCU), Epidemiological Core Unit (ECU), IGCU (Integration Core Unit).

• Collaboration with the research data infrastructure of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung, DZHK)

• Establishment of subject- and organ-specific working groups (Fach- und Organspezifische Arbeitsgruppen, FOSAs)