Support programmes
With our financial resources we support individual researchers and research teams with personal fellowships and project funding.
All about support programmes
On 7 January 2025 a sixth joint transnational call for research projects has been launched within the framework of the Horizon Europe ERA4Health partnership. This partnership on health sciences will constitute a hub for public health research, in a broad sense. Up to date, the following thematic areas will be addressed in this partnership: prevention, social health inequalities and nutrition, nanomedicine and cardiovascular diseases.
ERA4Health has its origin in different previous H2020 ERA-NETs (ERA-CVD, EuroNanoMed, ERA-HDHL, HDHL-INTIMIC), and initiates a range of activities, of which calls for research projects form the most important part. The FWO, in its capacity as research funder, will try to engage itself within the research calls of this partnership, in order to support the research institutes from Flanders.
InterHeart call 2025
This specific transnational call is focussed on cardiovascular research and wishes to address the following aspects:
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Deadline for pre-proposal submission AND national pre-application via the FWO e-loket
7 March 2025, 12.00 CET (Brussels)
Both the national/regional FWO fundamental (FO) and Strategic Basic Research (SBO) funding channels are integrated within this multilateral call. The type and scope of the proposed research project will determine the choice of funding channel for the research performed within Flanders (e.g. more fundamental in nature, or more aimed at economical/societal valorisation). Non-compliance with the specific requirements per funding channel might lead to non-eligibility.
Please note, this is only an FWO requirement: European and/or international partners within the project consortium can choose their type of research freely, according to their own national regulations.
For the fundamental funding channel the respective regulations apply. For the SBO channel the SBO regulations have to be taken into account: these imply projects with a primarily economic and/or societal finality, for which ‘valorisation’ is a key - and mandatory - aspect.
Project proposals have to be submitted by European and international consortia through the ‘InterHeart’ call secretariat, by making use of the designated pre-proposal template and submission platform, according to the applicable procedures and eligibility criteria included in the call documents and regulations mentioned above.
In case the consortium includes more than one partner requesting funding from FWO, a single online form should be submitted containing all relevant information from the different Flemish partners.
The deadline to submit the administrative application to the FWO is the same as the deadline of the joint transnational call (pre-proposal stage). To ensure the eligibility of the proposal, it is recommended to consult the FWO administration at least one week in advance.
Mandatory FWO administrative pre-registration
The FWO is able to support two projects for a 36 months duration, with an available maximum budget of 350.000 EUR (overhead included) per project/consortium. The FWO budgetary rules, which differ per funding channel, are also clarified in the call text (from p. 28 onwards).
Some key points and deviations from the ‘regular’ FWO participatory framework to consider:
Researchers are strongly advised to contact the FWO before submission regarding the eligibility criteria. This to avoid the ineligibility of a researcher individually, and the project consortium as a whole.
For additional information FWO participation, please contact:
Toon Monbaliu (General and ‘FO’)
+32 (02)2 550 15 70
+32 (0)2 550 15 95