Baekeland mandates offer researchers the opportunity to carry out a PhD in close collaboration with a company, with a project that has clear economic objectives. Mobility is encouraged, not only between the academic and industrial world, but also internationally. The Baekeland programme is open to candidates from all scientific fields, all nationalities and all ages.
Intake meetings
VLAIO organises intake meetings on 5 and 24 February 2026 for different scientific domains. Please register using this form.
VLAIO expects a short summary of the project and the questions you have (max. 1 page). Every intake takes about 1 hour.
Submit with Ghent Univesity?
Take a look on our website to see what to do for the budget, the collaboration agreement, the provisional acceptance for a PhD and the online applicaiton procedure from VLAIO.
We ask you to register your application as early as possible to vlaams-federaal@ugent.be, so we can guide you through the administration. Not all project information has to be known already.