The FNRS is launching a brand new call: an Audacious Medical Grant call in the field of paediatric diseases. This funding is made possible by private sponsorship.

Description of the instrument

• AMG-Pediatrics funding is intended for a single, eligible promoter from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles to carry out a medical or biomedical research project that is original and daring in nature, but which does not find support in traditional funding channels due to a lack of preliminary data, the absence of previous work or an unusual methodology (inter-university projects will not be supported under this call).
• Duration of funding: 24 months maximum.
• Amount of funding: maximum 120,000 euros.
• Eligible costs: personnel, operating costs, equipment (flexibility will be allowed between these different categories of costs). 

Scientific scope

• The scientific scope will take into consideration all pathologies affecting paediatric or foetal patients/subjects, including infectious diseases and vaccinology, immune deficiencies, cardiovascular, respiratory and metabolic diseases, congenital, developmental, neurological and psychiatric disorders, cancers, etc.
• All approaches will be eligible (biomedical research, clinical research, translational research, epidemiological research, public health, modelling, etc.).
• The projects presented should lead to:
  • a better understanding of a paediatric disease,
  • and/or the development of new therapeutic approaches/tools/techniques,
  • and/or improved prevention or detection of paediatric diseases.

Closure of the call : Thursday 10th July at 2 p.m.

See the mini-guide.

The FNRS is launching a new Audacious Medical Grant call for proposals in the field of neuroscience. 

Description of the instrument

• AMG-Neuro funding is intended for a single, eligible promoter from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles to carry out a medical or biomedical research project that is original and daring in nature but that does not find support in traditional funding channels due to a lack of preliminary data, the absence of previous work or an unusual methodology (inter-university projects will not be supported under this AMG-Neuro 2025 call).
• Duration of funding: 24 months maximum.
• Amount of funding: maximum 120,000 euros.
• Eligible costs: personnel, operating costs, equipment (flexibility will be allowed between these different categories of costs).

Scientific scope

• The AMG-Neuro 2025 call will focus on neuroscience: development of the nervous system, homeostasis and ageing, function and dysfunction of the nervous system, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive and behavioural processes, neurological and mental disorders.
• All approaches will be eligible (biomedical research, clinical research, translational research, epidemiological research, public health, modelling, etc.).
• The project submitted should lead to:
  • a better understanding of the nervous system and its pathologies,  
  • and/or the development of new therapeutic approaches,
  • and/or improved prevention or detection of nervous system pathologies.

Closure of the call : Thursday 10th July at 2 p.m.

See the mini-guide

The call Credits & Projects which concerns the instruments CDR, PDR, EQP, MIS and IISN is open on e-space  and will close on July 10^th, 2025 at 2 pm (Brussels local time).

The documents useful for the preparation of your 2025 proposal are available below.

• Mini-guide Credits and Projects Call 2025
• Cumulative rules

Rules and Regulations of the instruments of the Credits and Projects Call

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

An interuniversity team of 40 Belgian scientists has begun production of these parts, which will be incorporated into the new version of CMS, one of CERN's two major particle detectors. Its mission is a major one: to build 1,600 high-precision modules in 2 years!

In a clean room at the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies (IIHE-ULB/VUB) in Brussels, the first modules have already seen the light of day. They are the fruit of collaboration between researchers, physicists and engineers from ULB, VUB, UCLouvain, UGent and UAntwerpen. These Belgian universities have been asked to design and build one of the components of the new trajectograph that will be integrated into the new-generation CMS and will be capable of detecting the trajectories of thousands of particles produced by collision, 40 million times per second. 

In addition to this mission, the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) have provided substantial support, allocating a total of over €12 million to upgrade the CMS experiment.

See the press release...

The State visit to Vietnam was an opportunity for the FNRS, represented by its Secretary General Véronique Halloin, to sign a letter of intent with the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST): the two parties undertake to discuss the implementation of an agreement aimed at strengthening cooperation between Vietnam and the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in the field of research. 

This agreement could lead to the funding of bilateral mobility projects aimed at supporting the mobility of Vietnamese and FWB researchers and the organisation of scientific activities.