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A new WelCHANGE FNRS call will open on April 8th, 2025 !

Funding of projects in human and social sciences with potential societal impacts

WelCHANGE FNRS is a funding program for research projects :

- carried out by a main promoter in human and social sciences,

- with potential societal impacts. 

These projects, which may be single or multi-university, must be led by a principal promoter in Human and Social Sciences, in possible collaboration with co-promoters in Life and Health or Exact and Natural sciences.
In practical terms, the WelCHANGE FNRS program provides financial support over 4 years, including operating, personnel and equipment costs.

The call will open on April 8th, 2025.

All relevant documents are available via the following link.

For questions about the program : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For technical questions about submitting an application : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Préannonce WELCHANGE EN


Info session Weave - 10.02.2025

Weave – Research funding without borders

Jointly organised by the Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS (F.R.S.-FNRS) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

The bottom-up, cross-European initiative called Weave was launched in December 2020 by European research funders to support excellent collaborative research projects across borders. By making proposals go through a single review process, Weave aims to simplify the submission and selection procedures of collaborative research proposals that involve researchers from up to three European countries or regions.

Weave is implemented through existing, bottom up, funding channels for fundamental research (with the corresponding timelines and conditions) in the participating funding agencies. Therefore, there are no additional restrictions on the thematic focus or subject.

The information session aims to reply to the following questions:

What is Weave, how does it work in practice? How can Weave facilitate scientific collaboration between researchers from the French-speaking community and Flanders? Which other bi- and trilateral collaborations are possible within Weave? What are the conditions, procedures and timelines to be followed?

We kindly invite you to the virtual info session on the 10th of February 2025 from 2.00 pm (CET) onwards, during which the FWO and the F.R.S.-FNRS will present the collaboration opportunities within the Weave initiative and answer your questions during a Q&A session.

  • Please register here
  • Please note that you will receive the specific link to the Zoom webinar a few days before the info session. 
  • For more information or questions, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Specific webpages on Weave:

Weave-infosession2024


The Audacious Medical Grant Oncology (AMG-Onco) Call is Open

The Audacious Medical Grant (AMG) is a funding tool financed by private donations and bequests received by the FNRS.

It supports medical or biomedical research projects that are original, audacious, and creative but do not find support in traditional funding channels due to a lack of preliminary data, absence of prior work, or an unconventional methodology.
 
The AMG-ONCO is not a funding instrument dependent on Télévie, but the FNRS uses the expertise of its Scientific Committee to evaluate the submitted projects. Therefore, there is no overlap between the AMG-ONCO 2025 call and the Télévie 2025 call.
 
This call covers all areas of oncology and all approaches (biomedical research, clinical research, epidemiological research, public health…). The submitted project must aim to:
  • Improve the understanding of the mechanisms leading to cancer development, and/or
  • Develop new therapeutic avenues, and/or
  • Improve cancer prevention or detection.
The AMG-ONCO 2025 call is open until February 27, 2025.
 
Mini-guide Audacious Medical Grant – Oncology (AMG-ONCO) 2025 FR / EN
 
AMG-ONCO-2025-EN

Opening of the Télévie 2025 Call

The Télévie 2025 call is now open on e-space.
Closing date for the call : 27/02/2025

« Télévie » Call
  • Standard Télévie - TLV
  • Télévie Research Project – PDR-TLV
  • Grant F.R.S.-FNRS – Télévie Renewal – Grant-REN
  • Clinical Ph.D Renewal – CD-REN
Useful documents :

Televie-appel-2025-EN


Opening of the call for Scientific Missions 2025-2026

The deadline for submitting applications via the Rectorat is Monday March 3, 2025.

More info

ScientificMissions 205_2024_EN


Pierre Auger Observatory: the FNRS reinforces the Belgian presence for a new decade of potentially revolutionary research!

The Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina is the largest cosmic ray detector in the world. Inaugurated in 2008, the Pierre Auger Observatory uses a combination of instruments including 1,600 detectors and 24 telescopes, over an area of 3,000 km². It is currently managed by a team of more than 500 scientists from 17 countries, including Belgium. The international agreement guaranteeing its operation has been extended, and strengthened on the Belgian side: the FNRS is now officially one of the signatories.

The press release

ePierre Auger


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