About

Ghent University and Monash University are engaged in a partnership to explore and deepen academic collaborations. This partnership leverages the complementary research strengths in both academic communities to offer sustained and high-impact scientific outcomes. Working on the level of research, both institutions work towards initiating, deepening and widening collaborations with a long-term high-quality collaborations.

To realize these goals, the research board has allocated funds to support both junior and senior researchers who wish to enter such collaborations.

What do we do?

The partnership aims to be an active radar for the initiation of activities that may include:

• Joint research collaborations, or the joint publication of scientific papers and educational materials
• Joint summer courses or graduate and post-doctoral mobility
• Exchange of faculty, trainees and staff
• Participation in, and the co-hosting of meetings, seminars, symposia, exhibitions and conferences
• Joint applications for funding for future or ongoing collaborative projects
• Collaboration in other areas that foster research cooperation

Call for seed funding - open

Purpose

Seed grants serve to broaden and deepen research collaboration between faculty and staff at Ghent University and Monash University.

This seed grant, with funding from the Ghent University Special Research Fund, aims to support new or ongoing research partnerships.
See also the call text for more information on the scope of this call.

Funding

Applicants can apply for up to 5.000€.

Eligibility criteria

Professors and post-doctoral researchers at Ghent University can submit a seed grant. All areas of research are welcome to apply. The beneficiaries can also be PhD students. Beneficiaries should always be UGent staff.

See the application form for all eligibility and priority criteria.

Deadline 

In 2025 there will be 2 calls. Here are the corresponding deadlines:

• Deadline call 1: 25 April, 2025
• Deadline call 2: 1 October, 2025

Applicants can expect the selection outcome per call 3 weeks after the deadline.

Application form

The application form must be sent via email to elise.meerburg@ugent.be before the deadline.

Members

There is a steering group in place at Ghent University for this partnership. Members: Professor Marieke De Craemer (chair), Professor Patrick Bultinck (co-chair) and Professor Kim Calders (co-chair).

Contact

Do you have questions/remarks/ideas/…? Feel free to contact elise.meerburg@ugent.be (coordinator).