Please contact us at least 3 weeks before the submission deadline.
This enables us to provide qualitative advice and support.
The open calls are sorted by submission deadline.
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
FIKO: Type I Call 2025
Voor UZ Gent medewerkers die betrokken zijn bij de patiëntenzorg in de brede zin, die wetenschappelijk onderzoek willen verrichten, en die binnen de projectduur van maximaal vier jaar een doctoraat in de medische wetenschappen willen afronden.
Deadline: Intake HIRUZ: vóór 18 juli; Indiening project: uiterlijk op 01 augustus om 17u
King Baudouin Foundation – Springboard Grant for Applied Research in Primary Care
Springboard grant to help talented postdoctoral researchers in applied research in primary care to launch their research career.
Budget: 88.000 euro
Deadline: 13 August 2025
Foundation against Cancer (StK): Grants Cancer Prevention 2025
In 2025, the Foundation against Cancer makes a total budget of 2 million euros available to support Cancer Prevention through its Grants Cancer Prevention. Next to research projects regarding cancer prevention, operational projects linked to the 12 known recommendations of the European Code
Against Cancer can be submitted in this type of Grant.
There are 2 types of projects:
- Grants Cancer prevention – Research: between 100.000 euros and 400.000 euros
- Grants Cancer Prevention – Operational Projects: between 10.000 euros and 50.000 euros
Applications must be submitted online no later than 1 pm on August 19, 2025.
For more information about this call for projects, please visit our webpage https://www.kanker.be/preventie-projectoproep (Dutch) or https://www.cancer.be/appel-a-projets-prevention (French).
Deadline: 19 August 2025 (13h)
King Baudouin Foundation – Fund Abefradoc-Benevermedex – Assure your future
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
King Baudouin Foundation – Belgian Heart Fund – Basic research in cardiology
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
King Baudouin Foundation – Belgian Heart Fund – Clinical research in cardiology
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
King Baudouin Foundation – Belgian Heart Fund – Multicentre Randomised Clinical Trials in cardiology
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
King Baudouin Foundation – Belgian Heart Fund – Prize Dr. Léon Dumont
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
FWO – Call 2025 – Medium-scale and large-scale research infrastructure
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
This list is non-exhaustive