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Our Focus

2025 Strategy

The Laerdal Foundation supports research projects advancing resuscitation, trauma, and maternal/newborn care. We also fund education research projects at SAFER simulation center in Norway.

Our focus areas
  1. Saving life at birth
  2. Better reporting of data as basis for improved care: Utstein Formula for Survival
  3. Promising hypothesis relating to updating of ILCOR guidelines for Emergency Cardiac Care and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  4. International/multicenter collaborations for improved education and implementation
  5. Implementation of the Global Resuscitation Alliance
  6. Projects at or in collabration with SAFER simulation center in Stavanger

Grant allocation

The Foundation grants up to 40 million NOK annually across four categories, with the expected distribution shown in the figure.