Opportunities

Deadline: May 03, 2024 befre 17:00 GMT+1

The Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH) in France launched its call for application in order to support international research networks in the human and social sciences. This call aims to support the creation or strengthening of international research networks on societal challenges to enable scientific communities to structure themselves, collaborate and give greater visibility to their work.

• This year's theme is: climate and environment.
• Synergies between human and social sciences (SHS) and life and earth sciences (SVT) are strongly encouraged.
• The call is open to researchers from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, starting from the PhD level, as well as to research centers.
• The coordinator must be associated or affiliated with a French research institution or higher education establishment that will host the project for its duration. The other members of the network may be doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows or researchers without affiliation in France or abroad.
• Financial support is granted for a period of two to three years for a total amount between 5 000€ and 30 000€ over the period. This support is intended to cover expenses related to the network's activities (travel, meetings, workshops, etc.).

Find out more about the eligibility criterias and procedures:

Website of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (GB/FR)

This grant cannot be combined with the PHC Tournesol and post-PHC grants from the French Embassy in Belgium.

Deadline: applications will be processed on a rolling basis until the available funds are exhausted

The Embassy of France in Belgium created a grants program to finance research stays in France in order to accelerate the best projects in hydrogen and artificial intelligence carried out between France and Belgium.

The research stay must be part of the development of a new cooperation between a French laboratory and a Belgian laboratory in the fields of artificial intelligence. It will offer a doctoral student, post-doctoral student or young researcher from the Belgian partner the opportunity of staying between one and three months in the laboratory of the French partner. 

The mission must imperatively end no later than December 31, 2024.

The funding covers a stay of one to three months (€1,704 net/month), access to accommodation at reduced price, health insurance and travel costs between Belgium and France (covered by the French Embassy).

Find out more about the eligibility criterias and procedures:

Website of the French Embassy in Belgium (FR/GB)

This is the PHC with the Flemish community of Belgium, for the PHC with the French community (Wallonia-Brussels federation) click here.

Deadline: March 28, 2024

PHC - TOURNESOL 2025 is a scientific exchange programme supported by FWO and the Embassy of France in Brussels in which travel grants are allocated in the framework of selected scientific mobility projects. The goal of such grants is to further sustain and expand the collaborations between Flanders and France.

Only applications co-submitted by Belgian researchers to the authorities responsible for the programme in FWO will be accepted.

• Duration of projects: 2 years (01/01/2025 – 31/12/2026)
• All scientific disciplines are eligible
• The funding covers travel and accommodation expenses of junior researchers with a maximum of 2.000 euro per project per year (on Flemish side as well as on French side).
• At Flemish side, the exchanges can only be performed by predoctoral researchers or postdoctoral researchers with maximally 12 years postdoctoral seniority.
• At French side, involvement of junior researchers is highly appreciated. The scientific seniority of the French Principal Investigator and the exchanged researchers at French side will be taken into account in the evaluation process.

Find out more about the eligibility criterias and procedures:

Website of the FWO (GB/NL)

In 2020 the University of Kent, Université de Lille, KU Leuven and Ghent University established the Interregional Internationalisation Initiative, the 3i University Network. The main goal of the network is to bring together universities, regional governments and the private sector/civil society to work on challenges common to Flanders, Kent and the Hauts-de-France. By virtue of their proximity, the three regions share challenges in a number of areas, including, but not limited to

• Marine and maritime questions (blue energy, preservation of the coastal environment…)
• Climate and energy (net zero, sustainability, energy security etc)
• Nutrition and health (sustainable, healthy alternative food sources, …)
• Communities and well-being (migration and refugee studies, vulnerability and inclusion of ageing populations and people with disabilities, …).

In order to enhance cooperation between the 3i-partners, the members of the 3i University Network have decided to put out a second call for proposals for collaborative projects. As the first call, this second call aims to support academic staff of the four partners who want to increase their cross-border collaborations with the specific goal of submitting joint project applications for larger grants.

Maximum funding available per project: €10.000 per project of the 3i University Network.

Total budget available for this call is 60.000€.

Deadline: 1st December 2023, 11.00 am, Paris time

Publication of the results: December

Find out more about this call here:

Results

In 2020 the University of Kent, Université de Lille, KU Leuven and Ghent University established the Interregional Internationalisation Initiative, the 3i University Network. The main goal of the network is to bring together universities, regional governments and the private sector/civil society to work on challenges common to Flanders, Kent and the Hauts-de-France. By virtue of their proximity, the three regions share challenges in a number of areas, including, but not limited to

• Marine and maritime questions (blue energy, preservation of the coastal environment…)
• Climate and energy (net zero, sustainability, energy security etc)
• Nutrition and health  (sustainable, healthy alternative food sources,  …)
• Communities and well-being (migration and refugee studies, vulnerability and inclusion of ageing populations and people with disabilities,…).

In order to enhance cooperation between the 3i-partners, the members of the 3i University Network have decided to put out a call for proposals for collaborative projects. This call aims to support academic staff of the four partners who want to set up or increase their cross-border collaborations with the specific goal of submitting joint project applications for larger grants.

Maximum funding available per project: €10.000 for one project per thematic cluster of the 3i University Network.
Total budget available for this call is 40.000€.

Find out more about this call here:

Results