The call Grants and Fellowships 2025 is open on e-space. The following instruments are concerned:

Postdoctoral researcher

• Postdoctoral Researcher - CR
• Postdoctoral Medical Doctor Applicant to an MSc - CSPD
• Postdoctoral Clinical Master Specialist - SPD
• Postdoctoral Clinical Master Specialist renewal – SPD-REN
• Clinical Researcher - CCL
• Clinical Researcher renewal – CCL-REN 
• Research Associate– CQ
• Senior Research Associate – MR
• Research Director – DR
• Ulysse Incentive Grant for Mobility in Scientific Research – MISU
• Ulysse Incentive Grant for Mobility in Scientific Research extension – MISU-PROL

Doctoral researcher

• Research Fellow - ASP
• Research Fellow renewal – ASP-REN
• Special Doctoral Grant - BSD
• Medical Doctor Applicant to an MSc and a Ph.D. - CSD
• Medical Doctor Applicant to an MSc and a Ph.D. renewal – CSD-REN
• Clinical Master Specialist Applicant to a Ph.D. - SD
• Clinical Master Specialist Applicant to a Ph.D. renewal – SD-REN
• Veterinary MD. Ph.D. Student - VETE-CCD
• Veterinary MD. Ph.D. Student renewal – VETE-CCD-REN

See the calendar for the deadlines of each call.

Consult the Rules and the Mini-Guide EN.

More info on the Rules & Guides page.

The Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS and the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) will grant, in 2025, the Prize of the Centre d'études Princesse Joséphine-Charlotte for scientific research against viral infections. 

Main features of the Prize

• The Prize rewards a scientific research achievement in the field of viral infections, in connection with health.
• Amount: 12.500 € for personal use.
• The Prize can reward a scientific research performed by a team. In this case, the Prize money will be divided equally between each member of the team.

Eligible applicants

• Candidates must be of at least postdoctoral level.
• Candidates must be affiliated, at the submission deadline, to a university of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, a university of the Flemish Community, or a Federal or Regional Research Center active in biomedical research.

Call timeline

• Opening of the call: December 4, 2024
• Deadline of the call: March 10, 2025
• Panel meeting: May/June 2025

How to apply?

Applications, written in English, must be sent electronically to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. on March 10, 2025 (midnight Brussels time), at the latest.
 
The requested documents are:

• The application form duly completed and signed.
• A detailled curriculum vitae.
• A complete list of publications.

The complete regulations of the Award are available here. 

The list of the previous laureates is available here.

Questions about the Award should be adressed via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Out of 2,313 applicants, the ERC has selected 328 researchers for this year's Consolidator Grants. 2 of them are permanent FNRS researchers.

🔹 Géraldine Laloux, FNRS Research Associate at de Duve Institute, UCLouvain
➡ Funded project: VAMPIRE: Connecting prey attacks and cell cycle switches in predatory bacteria
This is her second project funded by the ERC. She is Principal Investigator of the PREDATOR project, which is funded by an ERC Starting Grant 2018.

🔹 Viktoria Von Hoffmann, FNRS Research Associate in the Department of Historical Sciences at ULiège
➡ Funded project: PROXISENSES: Entangled Histories of the Proximal Senses (1350-1650): A Mediterranean History of (Subjective) Knowledge

The ERC press release

Eligible candidates

• The PhD thesis must have been publicly defended in 2024 in a university of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels or the Royal Military Academy.
  
• Candidates must be affiliated to a recognized university (within or outside the Federation Wallonia-Brussels) at the deadline of the call (cf. below).
  
• The thesis may not have been previously rewarded, except by an honorary Award.
  
• McKinsey & Company staff are not eligible to the Award.

Call timeline

• Opening of the call: December 2, 2024
• Deadline of the call: March 3, 2025
• Panel meeting: June 2025

How to apply ?

Applications, written in English, must be sent electronically to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. on March 3, 2025 (midnight Brussels time), at the latest.
 
The requested documents are:

• The application form duly completed and signed.
• A detailled curriculum vitae.
• A complete list of publications.
• An electronic version of the thesis.

 
The complete regulations of the Award are available here.

The list of the previous laureates is available here.

Questions about the Award should be adressed via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..