Grants
EMDR Europe Funding for Scientific Research
The EMDR Europe Association is committed to advancing the field of EMDR through funding for research programs.
Each year, EMDR Europe awards grants to support research, with a current focus on pilot randomized controlled trials for the treatment of psychological trauma and other co-occurring psychological disorders.
Apply for a Research Grant
- Application Deadline: March 30 of each year.
- Submission Email: m.hase@emdr-lemen.de
- Eligibility: Only proposals submitted by the deadline and from researchers based in Europe will be considered.
- Grant Amount: Maximum of €15,000 per project
- Project Duration: Maximum of 2 years
Important Information
- Notification of Grant Approval: Notifications will be sent out in July of each year. The Research Committee assess the different projects received according to defined criteria, then proposes to the Board of EMDR Europe to grant a certain number of research projects. Finally The Board of EMDR Europe, at its June meetings, makes the final decision. The applicants are notified of the decision in July of each year.
- Feedback Policy: EMDR Europe doesn’t provide feedback on applications beyond the funding notification.
- Ethics Guidance: Research projects not affiliated with academic institutions of health authorities may receive guidance from the EMDR Europe Research Ethics Committees.
Apply now to contribute to the growing body of knowledge in EMDR therapy and help improve treatments for psychological trauma and psychiatric disorders.
Specific research topics
At the Board meeting of November 3rd, 2024, the Board of EMDR Europe accepted the following priorities in the funding of research, as proposed by the Research Committee:
- Children & adolescents
- Early intervention
- Combat related PTSD
- Unipolar depression
- Personality disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Cost effectiveness
Downloadable Documents for Research Grants
To assist you in the application and reporting process, we have provided the following essential documents. Please download and review them carefully.
Grants Awarded by EMDR Europe
2024 - Dublin
Total Awarded: €60,000
- Francesco Oliva
Memory Anew: A randomized clinical trial assessing the clinical and neurobiological effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) on prolonged grief disorder of bereaved relatives of cancer patients.
Awarded: €15,000 - Longarzo Mariachiara
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) versus Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E) in the treatment of eating disorders RCT.
Awarded: €15,000 - Cavalera Cesare
A combined EMDR Integrative Group Protocol and EMDR Individual Treatment for Clients with Cancer: A Pilot Study.
Awarded: €10,000 - Ferro Mattia
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): Toward an Effective Integrated Approach for the Treatment of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder.
Awarded: €10,000 - Di Filippo Gloria
The better you feel the better you learn: EMDR as a psychological intervention for individuals with specific learning disabilities.
Awarded: €10,000
2023 - Bologna
Total Awarded: €54,000
- Luca Ostacoli:
Study: Neurobiological effects of EMDR as compared to CBT for the treatment of depression: emotional processing and autonomic response evaluation.
Awarded: €15,000 - Alessandra Minelli:
Study: Effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for borderline personality disorder: a single-blind randomized controlled trial in a real-world clinical setting of care.
Awarded: €11,000 - Sara Bertelli:
Study: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) versus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: randomized clinical trial.
Awarded: €15,000 - Matteo Panero:
Study: EMDR Psychotherapy in an Eating Disorder Center. A RCT in comparison with Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
Awarded: €13,000
2022 - Valencia
Total Awarded: €43,000
- Jonathan Lee:
Study: A model of bilateral alternating stimulation of traumatic memory reprocessing in rats.
Awarded: €10,000 - Laia Miquel de Montagut:
Study: What works and why? Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as a potential treatment for Substance Use Disorders.
Awarded: €9,000 - Anna Torres Giménez:
Study: Effectiveness of an EMDR intervention for the prevention of post-traumatic symptoms in perinatal loss.
Awarded: €7,500 - Maria Chiara Oprandi:
Study: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Integrative Group Treatment Proto- col (EMDR-IGTP) Applied to Caregivers of Children With Pediatric Brain Tumor: a Feasibility study and a Pilot Randomized Group Treatment Trial.
Awarded: €9,000 - Raquel Correia:
Study: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Integrative Group Treatment Proto- col (EMDR-IGTP) Applied to Caregivers of Children With Pediatric Brain Tumor: a Feasibility study and a Pilot Randomized Group Treatment Trial.
Awarded: €7,500
2021
Total Awarded: €50,000
- Ana Moreno-Alcázar (Spain)
Study: Research on the neural mechanisms underlying HPA axis regulation and the anxiety-reducing effects of EMDR using an animal model of maternal deprivation.
Award: €12,500 - Carlijn de Roos (The Netherlands)
Study: The effectiveness of EMDR in young children (1,5 to 8 years) with PTSD.
Award: €12,500 - Corine Paauw (The Netherlands)
Study: Conducting a multi-site randomised controlled trial of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing for adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder.
Award: €12,500 - Karin Slotema (The Netherlands)
Study:Cost-effectiveness of trauma-focused EMDR for patients with personality disorder.
Award: €12,500
2020
Total Awarded: €39,000
- Prof. Gianluca Castelnuovo (Italy)
Study: The EMDR for EATING DISORDERS (BED) study (BEmDR study): a large scale randomized controlled clinical trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR in patients with obesity and binge-eating disorder referred to a residential nutritional rehabilitation.
Award: €12,500 - Dr. Rinaldo Livio Perri (Italy)
Study: COVID-19, isolation, quarantine: a RCT study on the internet-based EMDR as the earliest aid for the ongoing trauma.
Award: €7,000 - Dr. Joaquim Soler (Spain)
Study: A pilot randomized-controlled study of dialectical behavior skills training plus EMDR for borderline personality disorder and trauma.
Award: €17,000
2019 - Krakow
Total Awarded: €75,000
- Dr. Sjacko Sobckaz (The Netherlands)
Study: Trauma and Dementia (TRADE)
Award: €20,000 - Dr. Francesco Pagnini (Italy)
A Pilot Study: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for Clients with Multiple Sclerosis in comorbidity with Depression.
Award: €20,000 - Ana Morena-Alcàzar (Spain)
Study: A phase II rater-blinded randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing therapy versus treatment as usual in patients with severe mental disorder and comorbidity of substance use disorder, and history of psychological trauma.
Award: €20,000 - Prof. Christoph Müller-Pfeiffer (Switzerland)
Study: EMDR Treatment in PTSD Following Acute Coronary Syndromes.
Award: €15,000
2018 - Strasbourg
Total Awarded: €75,000
- Ana Morena-Alcàzar (Spain)
Study: Pilot single blind, randomized controlled study of EMDR versus TAU in inpatients with severe mental disorders and psychological trauma.
Award: €15,000 - Alessandra Minelli (Italy)
Study: Transcriptional and miRNA signatures associated to the efficacy of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) in-patients.
Award: €15,000 - Marianne Littel (The Netherlands)
Study: Improving addiction-focused EMDR: a reconsolidation-based approach.
Award: €15,000 - Sara Carletto (Italy)
Study: Early psychotherapeutic intervention after childbirth trauma: comparison between EMDR and Supportive Expressive Dynamic Psychotherapy.
Award: €15,000 - Benedikt Amann (Spain)
Study: Prevalence of psychological trauma in patients with a recent diagnosis of HIV and the efficacy of EMDR therapy versus TAU in a pilot RCT in clinical symptoms and biological markers of HIV.
Award: €15,000
2017 - Barcelona
Total Awarded: €69,200
- Farell Derek (UK)
Study: Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Trauma Focus) versus EMDR Therapy (GTEP) Group Intervention in Adult Trauma Populations in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq: A Randomised Control Study.
Award: €10,000 - Fumagalli Monica (Italy)
Study: Taking care of the primary attachment relationship in a maternity ward: the EMDR intervention with acute childbirth trauma.
Award: €7,000 - Khalfa Stephanie (France)
Study: Effects of REM sleep modulation by EMDR therapy on cerebral metabolism.
Award: €7,000 - Passoni Serena (Italy)
Study: Effectiveness and applicability of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Integrative Group Treatment Protocol (EMDR-IGTP) for the reduction of psychological distress in caregiver of patients with dementia. A single-blind, randomized controlled trial.
Award: €10,200 - Ruggeri Mirella (Italy)
Study: Efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (emdr) plus broad form of enhanced cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-eb) in patients with eating disorders. a randomized controlled trial.
Award: €25,000 - Ten Hoor Nina (The Netherlands)
Study: EMDR and Exhibitionism: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Reducing Deviant Sexual Arousal.
Award: €10,000
2016 - Den Haag
Total Awarded: €26,000
- Minelli Alessandra (Italy)
Study: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) in-patients: clinical and biomarkers efficacy.
Award: €9,000 - Minelli Alessandra (Italy)
Study: Neurobiological processing of emotions in Major Depression: comparing the effects of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Anti-Depressant Medication.
Award: €10,000 - Pawils Silke (Germany)
Study: Feasibility and Effectiveness of EMDR group therapy for traumatized refugee preschoolers – a cluster randomized Before-and-after study to assess practicability and pre-post changes in PTSD symptoms of the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment protocol adapted to the kindergarten setting.
Award: €7,000
2015 - Milan
Total Awarded: €37,000
- Thomas Borsato (Milan, Italy)
Study: Changes in brain connectivity and plasticity during and after EMDR treatment: a TMS-EEG, tDCS and fMRI study.
Award: €4,000 - Nicolas Cazenave (Toulouse, France)
Study: Recovering autobiographical memory in soldiers suffering from PTSD: applicability and effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing (EMDR).
Award: €3,000 - Alessandra Minella (Brescia, Italy)
Study: EMDR Therapy in Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) in-patients: clinical and biomarker efficacy.
Award: €8,000 - Christoph Mueller-Pfeiffer (Zurich, Switzerland)
Study:Blocking Memory Reconsolidation by EMDR.
Award: €9,000 - Serena Passoni (Milan, Italy)
Study:Effectiveness and applicability of EMDR-Integrative Group Treatment Protocol (EMDR-IGTP) for the reduction of psychological distress in care giver of patient with dementia A single-blind randomized control trial.
Award: €7,000 - Cristina Trentini (Rome, Italy)
Study:EMDR affects neural processing of emotions in children with complex trauma; An hdEEG study.
Award: €6,000
2014 - Edinburgh
Total Awarded: €31,000
- Emilia Kaczvinszky (Hungary)
Study: Early intervention for traumatically injured patients in traumatological hospital: A prospective controlled trial.
Award: €10,000 - Trudy Mooren(The Netherlands)
Study: A randomized comparison of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and waiting list in traumatized refugee children.
Award: €5,000 - Benedikt Amann, Ramon Landin Romero (Spain)
Study:Comparison of a novel EMDR bipolar protocol/supportive therapy: A multicenter single blind randomized controlled trial.
Award: €6,000 - Stephanie Khalfa (France)
Study:Role of bilateral alternate stimulations in EMDR treatment: an fMRI experiment.
Award: €7,000 - Thomas Borsato (Italy)
Study:Changes in brain connectivity and plasticity during and after EMDR treatment: a TMS-EEG and fMRI study.
Award: €3,000
2013 - Geneva
Total Awarded: €23,300
- Iva Bicanic (The Netherlands)
Study: Early EMDR Intervention to prevent PTSD in rape victims; a randomized control trial.
Award: €20,000 - Derek Farell (UK)
Study: Effectiveness of bilateral stimulations in EMDR phase 2 “safe place exercise”, in relation to vividness, emotionality and heart rate variability: Randomized controlled trial.
Award: €1,200 - Zoï Kapoula (France)
Publication cost of a paper “EMDR and Neurophysiological mechanisms
Award: €2,000
2012 - Madrid
Total Awarded: €11,000
- Trudy Mooren and Carljin de Roos (The Netherlands)
Study: EMDR treatment of refugee children.
Award: €7,000 - Claire Chailleux and Stephanie Kahlfa (France)
Study: Brain mechanisms of EMDR.
Award: €4,000
2011 - Vienna
Total Awarded: €8,000
- Benedikt Amann and Patricia Novo (Spain)
Study: BET-study of EMDR in bipolar patients.
Award: €5,000 - Zoï Kapoula et Stephanie Hanoteau (France)
Study: EMDR and eye movement working neurophysiological mechanisms;.
Award: €3,000
