The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)

Funding details

Call : Call for transnational, collaborative, inter-/transdisciplinary research projects on ICT-enabled agri-food systems

Country specific: Funding is restricted to organisations from Belgium

Funding: €700,000

Conditions full:

Eligibility criteria:

Minimum and/or maximum project duration:

Projects may last up to 36 months, which implies the funding has to be budgeted and spent accordingly. Extensions are not allowed in this phase.

Minimum and/or maximum funding per project:

The maximum requested budget per partner amounts to 350.000 EUR (incl. overhead).

Beware, the funding rules differ per FWO funding channel (FO and SBO):

- FO: a 6% structural overhead should be calculated on the direct costs. E.g.: the sum of all costs (personnel, consumables, travel, etc.) amount to 300.000 EUR, then the overhead will amount to 18.000 EUR (6% of 300.000 EUR) and the total requested cost 318.000 EUR. This total requested cost may never exceed 350.000 EUR.

(for additional information see chapters 7 and 8 in the project regulations)

- SBO: The SBO cost model applies.

Who can be eligible for FWO funding?

The eligibility of institutions and its researchers can be verified in the relevant regulations:

à For Fundamental research, see articles 10-12

à For Strategic Basic Research, see articles 4-8

 

Additional conditions for FWO funding:

1. When the Flemish sub proposal has a strategic orientation, and thus the strategic basic research channel would be the appropriate choice of funding, we ask researchers to provide us with a ‘valorisation plan’ before the pre-proposal submission deadline. There is no fixed format and one A4 page should suffice. What the FWO wants to know is how the valorisation within Flanders - and potentially internationally – will take place and which Flemish actors are involved in this. This information can be submitted to the general eranet@fwo.be email address.
2. Researchers have to inform their central research coordination units, at their host institutions, about their participation.

One and the same researcher can only participate in 2 different research projects/consortia when applying for FWO funding, within the same call. Double funding is not allowed.

 

National/regional topic priorities:

The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) funds research projects within all topics of the call. There are not thematic restrictions as long as the projects fit into the SBO or FO funding channels scope. .

However, valorisation – with an economic and/or societal finality - is an essential feature for the SBO programme.

 

More details in the national/regional call announcement:

Call page for European programmes (ERA-NET)
https://www.fwo.be/nl/mandaten-financiering/europese-programmas/era-net/oproepen/

SBO programme
https://www.fwo.be/nl/mandaten-financiering/onderzoeksprojecten/sbo-projecten/

FO programmehttps://www.fwo.be/nl/mandaten-financiering/onderzoeksprojecten/junior-en-senior-onderzoeksproject/

Contact person(s):
Toon Monbaliu