Open calls for funding

KOTK funds psychosocial research and implementation projects that introduce something new in the care of (ex-)cancer patients or substantially improve existing care. Funding can be in the form of seed money or project money.

Deadlines: 13 January 2025, 10 March 2025, 26 May 2025, 25 August 2025, 9 October 2025

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Support for scientific research in the field of insurance medicine and medical expertise within the framework of private insurance.

Budget: 45.000 euro
Deadline: 26 August 2025

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This call concerns non-commercial projects for basic research in the field of cardiovascular research. This research encompasses scientific disciplines such as biochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology and their interplay and involves laboratory studies with cell cultures, animal studies or physiological experiments. Patients are not in the centre of the study but biological samples (e.g. blood) can be used for this purpose. 

It is a joint call by the Belgian Heart Fund, the Fund Walckiers-Van Dessel and the Fund Fernand Léonard.

Budget: 20.000 euro
Deadline: 08 September 2025

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The call concerns non-commercial projects for clinical research in the field of cardiovascular pathology. The research must be centered on the patients and aimed to determine the role of medication, intervention, diagnosis, symptoms or prevention in the physiological or pathological processes of the cardiovascular system.

This is a joint call by the Belgian Heart Fund and the Fund Fernand Léonard.

Budget: 20.000 euro
Deadline: 8 September 2025

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The call concerns non-commercial projects for multicentre randomised clinical research in the field of cardiovascular research. The research must be centred on the patients and aimed to explore the benefit of interventions (medical or non-medical) in patients with cardiovascular disease. The research should have a multicentre study design with randomisation between intervention and control. The research has to be carried out in 2, or more Belgian institutions.

Budget: 100.000 euro

Deadline: 8 September 2025

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The Prize Dr. Léon Dumont is a legacy offered to the Belgian Society of cardiology to award research excellence.

This Prize concerns basic or clinical research in the field of cardiovascular pathologies.

It is is intended as a recognition for realized research in cardiology and an encouragement to continue research in this field. 

Budget: 40.000 euro
Deadline: 08 September 2025

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Large-scale: Research infrastructure comprises all facilities and sources that promote the performance of cross-border and strategic basic research across all scientific disciplines. Besides scientific infrastructure, this includes collections, natural habitats, corpora and databases (including digital opening up).

Large-scale research infrastructure is defined as research infrastructure with a total subsidy cost excl. co-financing of at least EUR 1,000,000 (including the non-refundable portion of VAT).

Medium-Scale: Research infrastructure comprises all facilities and sources that promote the performance of cross-border and strategic basic research across all scientific disciplines. Besides scientific infrastructure, this includes collections, natural habitats, corpora and databases (including digital opening up).

Medium scale research infrastructure is defined as research infrastructure with a total subsidy cost excl. co-funding of at least EUR 150,000 and at most EUR 1,000,000 (including VAT).

Budget: medium-scale – 150.000 up to 1.000.000 euro / large-scale – > 1.000.000 euro
Deadline: 18 September 2025

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KCE Trials 2025 investigator-led call (deadline for submission 23^rd September 2025)
For more information: https://kce.fgov.be/en/kce-trials/future-calls/2025-kce-trials-2025-investigator-led-call 

What and for who?
The KCE Trials programme focuses on pragmatic and practice-oriented clinical studies which show comparative effectiveness and clear value for money by a potential return on investment. Those studies compare two treatment options (with ‘no treatment’ being one of the possible treatment options) that are already in use in clinical practice in a given indication, but are not yet sufficiently directly compared (i.e. which of the two treatment options work best in daily practice). Accepted study interventions are not limited to drugs or medical devices but also include a broad range of interventions, such as psychotherapy, diet, diagnostic tests, surgery or ways to deliver health care.

Infosession (online)

An online information session will be organised on Thursday the 5th of June 2025, 10:00-12:00. For more information, please contact trials@kce.fgov.be.

Support of HIRUZ
Investigators from U(Z)Gent with a research proposal will have the support of the Clinical Trial Unit (CTU) of Health, Innovation and Research Institute (HIRUZ) to submit and perform the proposed clinical trial. For more information and support, please contact HIRUZ CTU via hiruz.ctu@uzgent.be or 09/332.09.08 (Joke Tommelein).

Deadline: 23 September 2025

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IHI call 11 is a two-stage call with topics on brain dysfunction, the link between infections and non-communicable diseases, pharmacovigilance, type 1 diabetes, and ambulatory surgical centres.

Deadline: 9 October 2025 (short proposal); 29 April 2026 (full proposal)

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The Open Call Action proposal submission, evaluation, selection and approval (SESA) procedure is fully science and technology-driven and will ensure a simple, transparent and competitive proposal evaluation and selection process, reflecting the bottom-up, open and inclusive principles of COST.

Deadline: 21 October 2025 at noon

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