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Opening of the call for applications for the Princess Joséphine-Charlotte Study Centre 2025 Prize

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..

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2 ERC Consolidator Grants for Géraldine Laloux and Viktoria Von Hoffmann

 

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

ERCCoG 2024

 

 

Opening of the Antonella Karlson Award 2025 call

Every two years since 2011, the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS grants the Antonella Karlson Award in memory of Antonella Karlson, a Bulgarian-born physicist living in Belgium.

Antonella Karlson Award 2025

  • Rewards a doctoral thesis in Physics and/or Mathematics.
  • Amount: 5.000 € for personal use.

 Eligible candidates

  • The doctoral thesis must have been publicly defended between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024 in a University of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation or at the Royal Military Academy.
  • The thesis may not have been previously rewarded, except by an honorary Award.

Call timeline

  • Opening of the call: December 3, 2024
  • Deadline of the call : March 3, 2025
  • Panel meeting : May 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.
  • A letter of recommendation from the promoter.
  • An electronic version of the thesis.

 

The complete regulations of the Award is 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..

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Opening of the McKinsey & Company Scientific Award 2025 call

Thanks to the patronage of McKinsey & Company, the FNRS will grant, in 2025, the McKinsey & Company Scientific Award to a researcher who can demonstrate the societal and economic relevance OR the practical applicability of his/her doctoral thesis.

 

McKinsey & Company Scientific Award 2025

The doctoral thesis must pertain to one of the following fields:

  • Exact sciences
  • Applied sciences
  • Social, economic or management sciences
  • Biomedical sciences

Amount: 5.000 € for personal use.

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..

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Opening of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Award (EDMA) 2025 call

Thanks to the generous patronage of a private donator, the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) will grant in 2025 an Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Award.

EDMA 2025

  • Rewards a particularly deserving researcher for an original fundamental or translational contribution in the fields of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism or Nutrition. 
  • The research can be based on any model or experimental approach (functional, morphological, genetic, pharmacological, epidemiological) but cannot pertain to cancerous pathologies.
  • The Award amounts to 30.000€. Half of this amount will be allocated to the laureate personally; the other half will be attributed to the laureate's laboratory.
  • Joint application are not allowed.

Eligible candidates

  • Be affiliated to a Belgian university or university hospital and currently conduct a research project in the field of the Award.
  • Hold a PhD in a medical or biomedical field.
  • Have a scientific seniority of minimum PhD +6 years and maximum PhD +16 years at the deadline of the call.
  • Have worked in a medical/biomedical context in Belgium at least 5 years in total, including the 3 years directly preceding the deadline of the call.
  • Not have received an Award of an amount equal or superior to 20.000€ for the work submitted in the last 3 years (prior to the deadline of the call).
  • Previous laureates of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Award are not eligible.

Call timeline

  • Opening of the call: December 2nd, 2024
  • Deadline of the call: March 3rd, 2025
  • Panel meeting: End of 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 3rd, 2025 (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 full 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..

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Benoit Vanhollebeke (ULB), laureate of the 6th Pierre & Simone Clerdent Foundation Triennial Award

Prof. Benoit Vanhollebeke, Director of the Neurovascular Signaling Laboratory at ULB and Investigator at the WEL Research Institute, is the 2024 laureate of the Pierre & Simone Clerdent Foundation Triennial Award, awarded by the FNRS.

The Award, worth 400,000 euros, provides three years' support for a medical research project in the field of human neurology carried out by a university team based in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

The research carried out by Prof. Benoit Vanhollebeke and his team focuses on the brain's blood vessels, which form the blood-brain barrier that protects the brain from toxic blood components. This barrier, which is established during embryonic development, plays an important role in the progression of many neurological diseases.

The Simone & Pierre Clerdent Fondation Award 2024 will be awarded to Pr Benoit Vanhollebeke on Thursday November 14, 2024.

The press release in PDF format

Clerdent EN

 

 

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