Support programmes
With our financial resources we support individual researchers and research teams with personal fellowships and project funding.
All about support programmes

To reward completed research that contributes to the understanding, the causes, the prevention, the diagnosis, and/or the treatment of tumours of the musculoskeletal system.
In collaboration with the South-African funder NRF the FWO supports 3-year joint research projects between researchers from Flanders and South-Africa.
This Prize funds a 4-year research project in the field of rare diseases.
This programme supports the exchange of researchers between Flanders and Taiwan (NSTC) through two-year joint mobility projects.




Aslihan Babayigit (Hasselt University), Ilias Semmouri (Ghent University), and Harry Zekollari (VUB) are the three laureates of the 2026 FWO Scientific Awards for Climate Research.