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.
FOD Volksgezondheid – Call 2025: submission of new RT, RF & RI-Euphresco project proposals
Every year, the FPS Public Health launches a project call addressed to all Belgian research institutions, which aims to submit project proposals in support of food safety, animal health and plant health policies. The selection procedure is managed by the Contractual Research Cell.
Deadline: 12 April 2024
University Foundation – Looking for funding to publish a book, a journal or an article?
If you are looking for funding to publish a book, a journal or an article, you can apply for a grant from the University Foundation.
There are some conditions attached to the grant. The grant can only be awarded to works that are demonstrably the result of research in a Belgian research unit. Open Access is stimulated. A bonus is that subsidised books can be included in VABB.
Be sure to take the submission dates into account. Every year, there are three periods in which a request for a grant for books can be submitted, namely on 15 September, 15 January and 15 April. A request for a grant in support of scientific journals must be submitted before 15 April. Grant applications for scientific articles can be submitted all year round.
Deadline for books: 15 September, 15 January and 15 April 2024
Koning Boudewijnstichting – Generet Prize 2024
A prestigious award to encourage groundbreaking research in rare diseases in Belgium for a better quality of life of patients.
Budget: € 1.000.000
Deadline: 15 April 2024
Cardiological Princess Lilian Foundation: Call 2024-2025 Princess Lilian Foundation Visiting Professorship
The proposed candidate should have demonstrated excellence in medical sciences as evidenced by breakthroughs in research, vision, opinion leadership as well as didactic capability, including towards young investigators. The topic of his/her expertise is not necessarily restricted to cardiovascular diseases.
Deadline: 15 April 2024
IHI – Call 6: a two-stage call with topics on treatment persistency and the use of real-world data and evidence.
Topics
- Topic 1: Support healthcare system resilience through a focus on persistency in the treatment of chronic diseases
- Topic 2: Development of evidence based practical guidance for sponsors on the use of real-world data / real-world evidence
Deadline: 16 April 2024
IOF – Projects Funding Call of March 2024
IOF project funding can be applied at crucial stages of the development track of valorization-oriented projects to offer valuable support to research results/technology with clear value-adding potential (ConcepTT – StarTT – Advanced – Stepstone) IOF project proposals can be submitted continuously by all AUGent researchers with innovative projects.
However, each calender year 4 submission dates are fixed. This allows us to compile the evaluation of the proposals. New project applications have to be announced to the IOF-project department (iof@ugent.be), after which the application form will be made available.
An intake meeting prior to submission is mandatory. The involved stakeholders (ZAP, IOF and the TechTransfer department) are invited to this meeting. Besides a short introduction on the technology, this meeting serves to check the optimal funding track, and to identify potential issues towards the evaluation.
Deadline ConcepTT/ConnecTT/StarTT: 22 April 2024
Deadline Advanced/Stepstone: 7 March 2024
FWO – TBM projects (Applied Biomedical Research with a Primary Social finality)
In the long term, the TBM programme aims at contributing to the implementation of (new) therapies, diagnostic techniques and preventive methods, which would not make it to the patient without government funding due to a lack of industrial interest.
Budget: € 215.000 – € 850.000 euro (for large or multicentric trials, exceptionally budgets up to 1,275,000 euro are allowed)
Deadline: 22 April 2024
Koning Boudewijnstichting – Hoe kunnen initiatieven voor ziektepreventie en gezondheidspromotie in psychiatrische ziekenhuizen gestimuleerd worden?
Met deze oproep wil het Fonds Van Mulders-Moonens:
1) de belemmeringen en hefbomen voor het ontwikkelen van een preventie- en gezondheidspromotiesbeleid in psychiatrische ziekenhuizen in kaart brengen;
2) een reeks aanbevelingen formuleren om de implementatie van concrete preventie- en gezondheidsbevorderende initiatieven in psychiatrische ziekenhuizen te ondersteunen.
Budget: up to € 190.000
Deadline: 13 May 2024
IHI – Call 7: a single-stage call with topics on heart disease, the healthcare workforce, and biomarker validation.
Topics
- Topic 1: Improving clinical management of heart disease from early detection to treatment
- Topic 2: User-centric technologies and optimised hospital workflows for a sustainable healthcare workforce
- Topic 3: Clinical validation of biomarkers for diagnosis, monitoring disease progression and treatment response
Deadline: 22 May 2024
This list is non-exhaustive