Junior and Senior Research Project
Funds Flemish research projects by universities in foundational science and engineering.
FWO's Junior and Senior Research Projects programme is the Research Foundation Flanders' flagship annual grant for curiosity-driven fundamental research across all scientific disciplines. Researchers at Flemish institutions propose their own topics entirely bottom-up, with no imposed themes. The programme runs on an annual cycle: the call opens in January, closes in April, and results are announce…
All scientific disciplines — fully bottom-up, curiosity-driven fundamental research.
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