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NCP Flanders is conducting a short satisfaction survey to gather valuable feedback and suggestions on the NCP services. The survey is organised into three sections: NCP Flanders assistance, info sessions, and NCP Flanders website & LinkedIn. If you are not familiar with one of these sections, the survey will automatically guide you to the next section. The survey is fully anonymous and will remain open until 24 July 2026. The NCP Flanders team would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill in the survey and provide your opinion via this link. If you would like to get in touch NCP Flanders, please mail to info@ncpflanders.be
The results of the 2025 European Research Council (ERC) Advancd Grant call (call deadline 28 August 2025) were published. Advanced Grants are open to active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements. The Principal Investigators (PIs) should be exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions. Proposals are evaluated in 28 evaluation panels in three research domains (Physical Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities and Life Sciences) composed of top scientists and scholars coming from all over the world and in addition by remote referees with necessary specialised expertise (usually two to five per proposal). Of the 3329 submitted proposals (>31% increase compared to last year’s Advanced Grant call) 319 researchers with 33 different nationalities received an ERC Advanced Grant: 96 in Life Sciences, 124 in Physical Sciences and Engineering and 99 in Social Sciences and Humanities. Beside the list of selected researchers in the ERCEA news articles more background on the evaluation results, call statistics, and several project examples are highlighted. Since the launch of the Choose Europe initiative, which aims to attract and retain scientific talent in Europe, the ERC has opened three grant competitions in which researchers applying from outside Europe have been able to request up to an additional €2 million to support the costs of establishing a new laboratory or research team in Europe. This ERC Advanced Grants competition is the first of these three calls for which the results have been announced. Thirteen researchers currently based outside Europe (four percent of all winners) were selected for funding. Last year, four researchers based outside Europe won Advanced Grants (1.4% of successful applicants). Seven of these thirteen successful applicants made use of the special provision for researchers relocating to Europe under the Choose Europe for Science initiative and requested additional funding to establish a new laboratory and research team in Europe. Among the 319 selected researchers are ten based at Flemish host institutions. The projects of these ten Principal Investigators (PIs) are presented in the news articles of Universiteit Gent and KU Leuven. Maaheen AHMED, Universiteit Gent, COPRINTS - A History of Color Through Illustrated Magazines (1890s-1950s), panel Social Sciences and Humanities 5 Guy BOECKXSTAENS, KU Leuven, MACPAIN - Dorsal root ganglion macrophages as novel target for the treatment of chronic visceral pain, panel Life Sciences 7 Leen DECIN, KU Leuven, SOPHIA - Shoulders of Gaints: Unveiling the Interaction Physics of Giant Binary Stars, panel Physical Sciences and Engineering 9 Ilse DERLUYN, Universiteit Gent, TransParent - Bridging migration and family studies through the lens of transnational parenting, panel Social Sciences and Humanities 3 Raf DEWIL, KU Leuven, STELLAR - Sense-Capture-Destroy-Regenerate: A multi-stimuli molecular strategy for autonomous removal of emerging micropollutants from wastewater, panel Physical Sciences and Engineering 8 Judith GRUBER, KU Leuven, RECUR - Beyond Innocence, Towards Recursivity. Developing a Critical Political Theology of Coloniality, panel Social Sciences and Humanities 8 Simon KUHN, KU Leuven, CrystalControl - Decoupling Primary and Secondary Nucleation for Pharmaceutical Crystallization, panel Physical Sciences and Engineering 8 Johan NEYTS, KU Leuven, ANTIVIRMAP - Discovery of druggable antiviral targets across viral families through chemical probing, panel Life Sciences 6 Geert VAN CALSTER, KU Leuven, CONJURERS - In search of a sustainable and just legal framework for divestment of toxic business activities and -assets., panel Social Sciences and Humanities 2 Tom VAN DOORSSELAERE, KU Leuven, WHiSKi - Wave Heating in the Solar corona with Kink waves, panel Physical Sciences and Engineering 9
The SHIELD pre-commercial procurement has been opened by the ministries of interior of France, Spain and Slovakia together with the French national railway company. It aims to procure the development, testing and field validation of innovative solutions for protecting public spaces against security threats related to crowd management. Interested bidders are invited to submit offers by 25 August 2026. The source text does not provide further details on eligibility, budget, procurement phases or where tender documents can be accessed. More information: https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/363743-2026
The European Rare Diseases Research Alliance (ERDERA) will launch a Clinical Trial Call 2026 (ECTC) on 1 July 2026, supporting multinational, Good Clinical Practice (GCP)-compliant Phase I, Phase I/II and Phase II interventional clinical trials in rare diseases. Priority areas: paediatric rare diseases; rapidly progressive rare diseases; and rare diseases with no approved therapeutic options or with substantial residual unmet medical need despite existing treatments. How it works: A multi‑stage process with a mandatory Expression of Interest. Stage 0 – Expression of Interest: Deadline 10 September 2026 Stage 1 – Short Proposal Stage: Deadline 29 October 2026 Stage 2 – Support Stage: January – July 2027 Stage 3 – Full Proposal Stage: July – September 2027 Funding Decisions: February 2028 An information webinar for prospective applicants will be held on 6 July 2026 and will provide an overview of the call objectives, eligibility requirements, evaluation process and indicative timeline.More information in the pre-announcement and on the ERDERA website (incl. draft Call text).
NCP Flanders is conducting a short satisfaction survey to gather valuable feedback and suggestions to further improve its services. The survey is organised into three sections: NCP Flanders assistance, info sessions, and NCP Flanders website & LinkedIn. If you are not familiar with one of these sections, the survey will automatically guide you to the next section. The survey is fully anonymous and will remain open until 24 July 2026. The NCP Flanders team would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill in the survey and provide your opinion via this link. If you would like to get in touch NCP Flanders, please mail to info@ncpflanders.be
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Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.
NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic.
