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KOTK – Call psychosocial projects (including seed money)
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
ERDERA – 2025 Call on pre-clinical therapy studies for rare diseases open
The European Partnership on Rare Diseases (ERDERA) has opened its first Joint Transnational Call for Proposals on ‘Pre-clinical therapy studies for rare diseases using small molecules and biologicals – development and validation’.
Deadline: 13 February 2025 (pre-proposal), early May 2025 (full proposal)
FWO – Generet Award for Rare Diseases
On the initiative of the Fund Generet, managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, the prestigious Generet Award will be granted in 2025, for the 8th time, to support a 4-year research project in the field of rare diseases in Belgium.
Budget: 1.000.000 euro
Deadline: pre-proposal 12 May 2025
King Baudouin Foundation – Generet (fund)
A prestigious award of 1 Million euros to encourage groundbreaking research in rare diseases in Belgium for a better quality of life of patients.
Budget: 1.000.000 euro
Deadline: 12 May 2025
King Baudouin Foundation – Fundamental research on the mechanisms of pediatric cancers
The call for fundamental research on the mechanisms of pediatric cancers with clinical translation is launched by the Funds Simon Bauvin, Christian Lispet, Rosa Meynen, Denise Raes and Alice Sepulchre.
The introduced research project aims to improve the understanding of pediatric tumor biology, including (but not limited to) studies on genetic change, signaling pathways and tumor microenvironment. The project should be specific to pediatric cancers and include clear perspectives for applications in medicine.
Collaborations between laboratory scientists and clinicians are strongly encouraged.
Budget: 170.000 euro
Deadline: 22 May 2025
King Baudouin Foundation – John W. Mouton pro retina (fund)
Support for scientific medical research in opthalmology, with special attention to retinal pathologies such as genetic, diabetic or hypertensive retinopathy,…
Deadline: 31 May 2025
BOF – Basic Infrastructure
The Special Research Fund (BOF) has launched a call for the purchase of basic infrastructure.
Through this call Ghent University supports the purchase of basic research infrastructure with a maximum value of € 250.000 (VAT incl.), of which up to a maximum of € 150.000 can be funded through the Special Research Fund. The applicant(s) must demonstrate that the infrastructure is essential for their research (‘basic’) and that a large part of the applicants (and their research groups) will use/rely upon the availability of the infrastructure (‘widely used’).
(Research)Infrastructure is an overarching term that includes equipment, (e-)resources such as databases, archives & software, as well as facilities.
Budget: 250.000 euro
Deadline: 3 June 2025
Geneeskundige Stichting Koningin Elisabeth (G.S.K.E.): oproep voor projecten binnen het gebied van neurowetenschappen en aandoeningen van het zenuwstelsel
De G.S.K.E. zal voor een nieuwe drie jaarlijkse cyclus, 2026–2029, kredieten ter beschikking stellen van:
– Belgische interuniversitaire onderzoeksploegen voor een bedrag van max. € 180.000 gespreid over 3 jaar
– Belgische universitaire onderzoeksploegen voor een bedrag van max. € 120.000 gespreid over 3 jaar
– Jonge Belgische onderzoekers voor een bedrag van max. € 60.000 gespreid over 3 jaar
Deadline: 15 Juni 2025
King Baudouin Foundation – Fund for Scientific Research in Rheumatology
The Fund for scientific research in rheumatology launches a call for research into rheumatic diseases. The research should focus especially on clinical and multidisciplinary or multicenter programs, either in academic or non-academic Belgian institutions, that respond to a clearly identified need of patients and/or caregivers.
Projects that are open to collaborations with other interested centers and which cannot easily be supported through other existing national or international programs are especially invited. For clinical research, the relevance of the project and the potential impact of the results on diagnosis/treatment/quality of care have to be clearly defined.
Seeding money for innovative translational or basic research can also be requested, in a preparative phase for more established funding opportunities.
Budget: 150.000 euro
Deadline: 24 June 2025
King Baudouin Foundation – Fund for Scientific Research in Rheumatology
The Fund for scientific research in rheumatology launches a call for research into rheumatic diseases. The research should focus especially on clinical and multidisciplinary or multicenter programs, either in academic or non-academic Belgian institutions, that respond to a clearly identified need of patients and/or caregivers.
Projects that are open to collaborations with other interested centers and which cannot easily be supported through other existing national or international programs are especially invited. For clinical research, the relevance of the project and the potential impact of the results on diagnosis/treatment/quality of care have to be clearly defined.
Seeding money for innovative translational or basic research can also be requested, in a preparative phase for more established funding opportunities.
Budget: 150.000 euro
Deadline: 24 June 2025
This list is non-exhaustive