Ghent university - Special Research Fund
Calls Special Research Fund 2024-2025
Flemish universities can - within the framework of the legislation on higher education in the Flemish Community - draw up their own research policy. To this end, they receive annual funding from the minister responsible for science for their Special Research Funds (BOF). The government contribution to the Special Research Funds is legally regulated at a high level in the W&I decree and more concretely in the BOF decree. Distribution between universities is based on an allocation key. The Research Council considers all applications for funding and advises the board for the allocation of various mandates and projects.
Scholarships & academic positions
- Cofunding for Chinese CSC preference scholarship students (deadline 12/12/2024)
- Doctoral scholarships for candidates from the Global South (deadline 19/2/2025)
- Postdoctoral fellowships - deadline via FWO
- PhD grants with UNU-CRIS, GUGC or Blue Growth label (deadline 21/5/2025)
- Exceptional extension of a PhD trajectory that was delayed due to COVID-19 (no deadline, permanent call)
Projects
- Basic Research Funding (on invitation)
- Starting Grants (on invitation)
- Societal Value Creation Fund (deadline spring 18/3/2025; deadline autumn 14/10/2025)
- Interuniversity BOF projects (IBOF) (deadline intention 26/10/2023; deadline elaborated application 31/5/2024)
- Core Facilities co-funding
- Renewal International Thematic Networks (no call in 2024-2025)
- Methusalem (no call in 2024-2025)
Results
The results of BOF applications are published on the website. Applicants can contact the University Services for feedback via bof@ugent.be.
Contact
- email: BOF@UGent.be