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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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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The Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program provides funding to strengthen civic engagement, equal rights for all, and the application of EU values. It supports organizations and governments in protecting fundamental rights, promoting democratic participation, gender equality, non-discrimination, and tackling racism and xenophobia. It is also committed to the rights of children and vulnerable groups.

The European Commission wants to promote inclusion and equality and is launching this project call as part of that effort. Applicants must demonstrate how their project responds to the priorities of this call. Selected projects will be closely monitored, deliver tangible results, and contribute to cooperation and innovation across borders.

Budget: 20.000.000 euro
Deadline: 23 October 2025

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The biannual  call for the iBOF-programme has recently been launched. Within the iBOF programme, excellent, pioneering frontier or blue-sky research is supported that will be carried out in a consortium of at least 3 promoters from at least 2 Flemish universities. An iBOF project brings together top researchers who through such an interuniversity project, will (further) promote Flanders at an international level by deepening or broadening scientific knowledge and increasing capacity building in a sustainable partnership. IBOF projects have a duration of 4 year. Each promoter provides essential expertise for the realization of the proposal. At the same time, the promoters must be complementary to each other and/or mutually reinforcing as they need each other to be able to carry out the project in synergy. The involvement of promising scientifically junior researchers, at least as co-promotor, is highly recommended. Proposals from all domains are possible, both mono- and interdisciplinary project proposals.

Budget: between 450.000 – 900.000 euro
Deadline: 23 October 2025 (declaration of intent); 29 May 2026 (full proposal)

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The main objective of this call for projects is to significantly reduce the use of single-use medical products in Belgian hospitals, within a general framework of sustainability, taking into account the important aspect of safety for healthcare providers and patients. These projects must demonstrate a certain degree of complementarity with existing efforts.

The projects can fall into two categories:

• Direct reduction in the use of disposable products for (at least) one identified type of product/location.
• Strengthening of cross-cutting processes (such as purchasing, logistics, cooperation and data exchange between actors, etc.) to reduce the use of disposable products.

Budget: 600.000 euro (in total for 3 to 6 projects)
Deadline: 27 October 2025

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ITEA is an industry-driven European ecosystem for collaborative R&D projects on software-intensive systems. ITEA projects cover all topics related to software innovation, including:

• Artificial intelligence (e.g. large language models and other generative AI)
• Smart healthcare
• Cybersecurity (digital safety and security)
• Industry 4.0 and smart engineering, including simulation tools, digital twins, robotics and IoT
• Sustainability, including smart mobility and smart cities

Participating countries include Austria, Belgium (Flanders: VLAIO; Brussels: Innoviris; Wallonia: SPW), Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, the United Kingdom, Hungary, South Korea, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and Turkey.

Deadline: 10 November 2025 (concept); 29 May 2026 (full proposal)

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This fourth joint call for proposals is based on the 10 research priorities identified in 2022 by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust*.

*https://www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/research/your-cf-research-priorities.

The call consists of several stages. Stage 1: preproposal & eligibility check: does the research proposal adressess at least one of the defined priorities?

The preselected projects will be invited to introduce a full proposal (stage 2).

Budget: 100.000 – 300.000 euro
Deadline: 13 November 2025

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