Prevention Programme 7 (Preventieprogramma 7)

Alcohol Prevention: Strengthening Practice (Alcoholpreventie: versterken van de praktijk)

Funds Dutch organizations to implement evidence-based alcohol prevention knowledge in practical public health programs and community settings.

Alcoholpreventie: versterken van de praktijk is a grant call under ZonMw's Preventieprogramma 7, administered by ZonMw — the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development — and funded by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The call's stated aim is the broader application and implementation of evidence-based knowledge about alcohol prevention in Dutch public health practice (bredere toepassing of implementatie van kennis over alcoholpreventie). It is one of two concurrent calls launched under Preventieprogramma 7 on 27 May 2026, alongside the Preventieambassadeur in actie strand, which focuses on disseminating results from across the prevention programme more broadly.

The call opened on 27 May 2026 at 12:00 and closes on 10 August 2026 at 14:00 Netherlands time. Eligible applicants include Dutch universities, non-profit research organisations, and public health practice organisations; for-profit entities and individual researchers are not eligible as main applicants. Specific award amounts per project are not published on the index page and must be retrieved from the individual call page on Mijn ZonMw. The implementation and application framing indicates that funded projects are expected to take existing evidence and translate it into scalable practice interventions rather than generate new primary research.

Applications are submitted in Dutch via Mijn ZonMw. Preventieprogramma 7 sits within ZonMw's broader prevention portfolio, which addresses lifestyle factors and their population-level health impacts. Strong proposals for this strand should identify specific evidence-based interventions or knowledge bodies already established by prior research and articulate a concrete implementation plan for reaching target populations or professional practice settings in the Netherlands, with clear outcomes that can be measured and reported.