SA-Flanders (FWO) Collaborative Research Projects
Funds South African and Flemish university teams to run multi-year fundamental research in any domain through shared governance.
The SA-Flanders (FWO) Collaborative Research Projects call is a biennial bilateral funding programme jointly administered by South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). It finances three-year fundamental research projects conducted by paired teams — one principal investigator based at a South African institution and one at a Flemish institution — a…
Any scientific domain; fundamental scientific research only. No applied or commercial focus.
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