Research Projects JEZ!

The youth collective JEZ! strives to place young people back in the heart of society, to connect them and to give them a voice and a face. The JEZ! fund was set up at the King Baudouin Foundation to manage the proceeds of the fundraising in the context of JEZ!. In the context of JEZ!, the FWO provides up to € 896,226 (excluding overhead) to support two-year research projects on “development of young people on a physical, artistic or psychosocial level". Project proposals are preferably aimed at generating new knowledge that can contribute to the development of tools to enable teachers, sports clubs, cultural associations or youth workers to optimally support the development of young people. Within JEZ! research projects, young people or their representatives should be involved as stakeholders, both during the project genesis and during the implementation of the project.

Requirements

  • The research must be carried out at an eligible Flemish main host institution, and may involve collaboration with other Flemish and/or federal research institutions (see FWO regulations, art. 7).
  • The research project must be conducted under the supervision of a supervisor, and the optional further collaboration of one or more co-supervisors (see FWO regulations, art. 10 and 11). Emeriti with 10% paid appointment can only act as co-supervisor.
  • Project duration: 2 years
  • All material acquired through operational or equipment funds from the FWO becomes the property of the university.
  • The host institution is the employer of staff paid through research projects.
  • No remuneration or cumulation with a remuneration may be granted to (co-)supervisors in the context of a research project.
  • NOTE: the humanitarian research projects, such as these in the scope of JEZ!, differ in some substantial aspects from the fundamental research projects of FWO; e.g.:
    ° These projects will NOT distinguish between a junior or a senior project type;
    ° These projects will NOT be taken into account for calculating the maximum of 2 projects for which one can be (co)-supervisor at a given time;
    ° A specific jury of scientific experts composed by FWO will evaluate your application; it is not necessary to select a panel yourself from the regular FWO expert panels.

Budget

General information: The success rate of a project is not influenced by the requested budget. There is no advantage for the applicant in requesting a smaller budget. Make sure the proposed budget will suffice to cover the project costs.

Staff

    • • If the name of the person who will fill the position is known, or if you want to hire someone with more seniority than in the table below, please contact the front officer of your department or vlaams-federaal@ugent.be for an estimation (based on seniority). Round the numbers to the next 500 or 1000..
    • • If that is not the case, please use the numbers below.

  Functie/Appointment

   %

  Anciënniteit/Seniority

Per budgetjaar/Budget year

 Bursaal/Bursary

   100   0   57.500

 WP/Scientific staff,
 0 years of seniority

   100   0

  92.000

 WP/Scientific staff,
 0 years of seniority

     50   0

  46.000

 Postdoc/Postdoctoral researcher,
 4 years of seniority

   100   4

  121.500

 Postdoc/Postdoctoral researcher,
 4 years of seniority

     50   4

  61.000
 ATP (4.1)/Technical staff,
 6 years of seniority		   100   6

  69.000
 ATP (4.1)/Technical staff,
 6 years of seniority		     50   6

  34.500

Staff + Consumables

    • •  On a project level (all institutions combined) an amount of minimum 50,000 euro per project year must be applied for.
    • •  Each Flemish or federal host institution can apply for an amount up to maximum 145,000 euro per project year.
    • •  A non-Flemish research institution (and non-federal scientific institution) can share for a maximum of 10% of the research budget.

Equipment

    • • All equipment from 20,000 euros to a maximum of 150,000 euros (per project).

Submission info for Ghent University researchers

You can find the online application form in the FWO e-portal (registration required) from mid-January on. Please use the FWO templates for the (English) project application, CV and consent form (if necessary). Tip: You can highlight the most important elements in your cv. Please make sure that your publication list is up to date. If you have questions about the publication list, contact biblio@ugent.be.

Given that Team National Funding checks each project proposal against a number of eligibility criteria, the internal deadline for submission is 15 March 2024 (17:00). Please submit your proposal via the FWO e-portal (“submit"). We will revise the following elements of your proposal:

    • • Eligibility (co-) supervisor Ghent University
    • • Eligibility project budget
    • • We will check if the documents below have been uploaded, but we do not revise the content/form:
    • o CV (co-)supervisor(s)
    • o Consent form (if necessary)
    • o Publication list supervisor

If you want to continue working on your proposal after 15 March, please inform us via vlaams-federaal@ugent.be. We will reopen your proposal in the e-portal.
Please submit before 15 March, to allow our team to check if your proposal is eligible for funding.

FWO deadline: 2 April 2024 – 17:00 (via FWO e-portal “submit”). Note: As a researcher you CANNOT submit directly to the FWO. The actual submission to the FWO is done by Team National Funding, for which the deadline is April 2, 17:00.

After our submission to FWO, the supervisor-spokesperson receives a confirmation email from FWO. If you did not receive this email before 2 April 17:00, please contact vlaams-federaal@ugent.be.

To support you in advance as well, there is a preregistration (link: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/4a812ed5-ec1f-447a-a03c-bea52934dbf9). If you inform us before Tuesday 19 February – 17:00 that you are planning to submit a research project, we can guarantee a proactive follow-up:

    • • We send you an overview of the eligibility criteria and changes in the regulations as compared to last year by e-mail.
    • • We inform our colleagues from the Biblio team that you will submit a proposal. This allows them to check your records in Biblio and offer support with the export of publications to the FWO e-portal.
    • • We immediately check the eligibility as a (co-)promotor and warn you if there is a problem.

Result

    • • Announcement: 19 December 2024 (via the FWO website).
    • • The project starts on January 1 of the year following the application.
    • • Success rate 2023: 14,5 %

More Information

You can find the regulations and more information on the FWO website

Contact

Research Coordination Office - Team National Funding