Table 1.

Description of the BIG subprojects, funding amounts, and transfer costs.

Subproject, funding period, and funding agency		Support provided to communities	Financial support for communities	Recruitment method	Number of sites recruited	Funding amount	Annual costs of scientific support per site	Annual long-term transfer costs
1	BIG 2005–2008 Research sector at national level; health sector at states level	Researchers coordinated and implemented the project	Project implementation funding	Direct address of sites	1	€561,125.00	€160,321.43	€40,080.36
2	BIGff 2008–2009 Health sector at state level	Extensive assistance of local project coordinators	Seed funding for 4 sites	- Project presentation at a conference - Open calls for applications - Direct address of sites	7	€305,410.00	€16,361.25	€37,180.35
	BIGGER(t) 2008–2010 Health sector at national level		Not provided
3	BIG.Manual 2009–2011 Health insurance company	- BIG manual, - Phone and face-to-face counseling	Not provided	Open calls for applications	2	€127,200.00	€29,353.85	€28,266.67
4	BIG.kompetenz 2012–2015 Health sector at state level; health insurance company	- BIG competence center (offering counseling and network-meetings for all local BIG coordinators) - BIG manual	Seed funding (10 h/week local project coordinator)	Open calls for applications	5	€361,023.00	€18,051.15	€124,490.69
5	BIG.Disseminierung 2015–2019 Health insurance company	- Coordinator at state level in Berlin - BIG competence center - BIG manual	Not provided	Open calls for applications in all districts of Berlin	2	€183,203.20	€20,739.98	€122,135.47