The FNRS Board has just formalized the awards for the following grants and fellowships:

• Aspirants - Aspirantes / Research Fellows
• Aspirants - Aspirantes Renouvellement / Research Fellows Renewal
• Bourses spéciales de Doctorat / Special Doctoral Grants
• Candidats Spécialistes Doctorants - Candidates Spécialistes Doctorantes / Medical Doctor Applicants to an MSc and a Ph.D.
• Candidats Spécialistes Doctorants - Candidates Spécialistes Doctorantes Renouvellement / Medical Doctor Applicants to an MSc and a Ph.D. Renewal
• Candidats Spécialistes Doctorants - Candidates Spécialistes Doctorantes 2^ème Renouvellement / Medical Doctor Applicants to an MSc and a Ph.D. 2nd Renewal
• SpécialistesDoctorants - SpécialistesDoctorantes / Clinical Master Specialist Applicants to a Ph.D.
• Spécialistes Doctorants – Spécialistes Doctorantes Renouvellement / Clinical Master Specialist Applicants to a Ph.D. Renewal
• Vétérinaires Cliniciens-Chercheurs Doctorants - Vétérinaires Cliniciennes-Chercheuses Doctorantes / Veterinary MD. Ph.D. Students
• Vétérinaires Cliniciens-Chercheurs Doctorants - Vétérinaires Cliniciennes-Chercheuses Doctorantes Renouvellement / Veterinary MD. Ph.D. Students Renewal
• Chargés de recherches - Chargées de recherches (3 ans) / Postdoctoral Researchers 3 years
• Spécialistes Postdoctorants – Spécialistes Postdoctorantes / Post-doctorate Clinical Master Specialists
• Spécialistes Postdoctorants – Spécialistes Postdoctorantes Renouvellement / Post-doctorate Clinical Master Specialists Renewal
• Spécialistes Postdoctorants – Spécialistes Postdoctorantes 2ème Renouvellement / Post-doctorate Clinical Master Specialists 2nd Renewal
• Chercheurs cliniciens - Chercheuses cliniciennes / Clinical Researchers
• Mandats d'Impulsion Scientifique – Mobilité Ulysse / Ulysse Incentive Grants for Mobility in Scientific Research
• Mandats d'Impulsion Scientifique – Mobilité Ulysse Prolongation / Ulysse Incentive Grants for Mobility in Scientific Research Extension
• Chercheurs qualifiés - Chercheuses qualifiées / Research Associates
• Collaborateurs scientifiques - Collaboratrices scientifiques (1 an) / Scientific Collaborators (1 year)
• Maîtres de recherches / Senior Research Associates
• Directeurs de recherches - Directrices de recherches / Research Directors

Candidates selected by the F.R.S.-FNRS Board of Directors at its meeting of June 22, 2021. Amended version of June 29, 2021 including the names of the beneficiaries of a one-year Scientific Collaborator mandate.

The FNRS opens the call for applications PDR-Thema 2021 which funds research projects in the field of cardiovascular diseases.

• Funding of research projects with a duration of 3 years.
• In the field of cardiovascular diseases in a very broad sense. The FNRS does not impose any additional thematic constraint and the jury will, if necessary, have to decide on the eligibility of a project whose subject seems to deviate from this framework.
• All scientific approaches are eligible: molecular biology, public health, modeling, clinical and preclinical studies, medical engineering, etc.
• The participation of co-sponsors is authorized, including outside the French Community of Belgium (FBC).

Eligible expenses and financial terms

• Maximum 450.000 € per project.
• There are three types of eligible expenses: personnel, operating and equipment.
  Equipment costs are authorized up to 30% of the total budget requested.
• The use of subcontractors is allowed up to 20% of the total budget requested.
• A budget can be requested for institutions outside the WMC up to 20% of the total budget requested. For these institutions, eligible costs are limited to personnel and operating costs.

Practical details

Applications must be submitted via the e-space platform before Friday, July 2, 2021 at 2:00 pm.

The rules of the call are available here.

The mini-guide of the call is available here. 

The call Credits & Projects which concerns the instruments CDR, PDR, EQP and MIS is open on e-space this 18/05/2021 and will close on 08/07/2021.

The documents useful for the preparation of your 2021 proposal are available below and a brief description of these instruments is also available here. 

• Mini-guide Call 2021 EN
• Questionnaire Project IISN

Rules and regulations of the instruments

• Research Credit CDR
• Research Project PDR
• Equipment EQP
• Incentive Grant for Scientific Research MIS
• Credits of the Interuniversity Institute of Nuclear Sciences IISN

The call is open on e-space this 18/05/2021 and will close on 02/07/2021. 

The documents useful for the preparation of your 2021 proposal are available below and a brief description of these instruments is also available here.

• Mini-guide Call 2021 EN
• Regulations EN

The FNRS and the FWO will grant in 2021 the Scientific Awards AstraZeneca Foundation which reward established investigators in 3 different topics in Life & Health Sciences.

One Award will be attributed in each of the following topics:

• Gene editing as a therapeutic approach.
• Understanding the heterogeneity of the human immune response to infectious agents.
• New strategies in regenerative medicine.

Amount : 25.000 €/Award. Half of the amount is allocated personally to the laureate, the other half is allocated to the laureate's laboratory.

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