The National Contact Points are support structures established by Member States and Associated Countries (AC) and recognized by the European Commission to help participants to access the different opportunities in the Horizon Europe programme and Digital Europe programme.
NCPs provide on the ground advice to potential applicants and beneficiaries, through the project life cycle, in a manner that would be impossible for the Commission and its Agencies acting alone.
In Belgium NCPs have been established per region. NCP Flanders provides free of charge information and advice to all stakeholders located in Flanders (enterprises, institutes, non-profit-organisations, universities, university colleges,...) and to all Flemish public institutions located anywhere in Belgium. NCP Flanders is a cooperation between the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), and Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO).
NCP Flanders can help to:
Are you a staff member of a university, university of applied science or research organisation based in Flanders?
Several Flemish institutes and organisations offer support services for European funding for research and innovation, also known as European Liaison offices. Your organisation might have such an office in place, which is your first contact point. You can consult a (non-exhaustive) list with the necessary contact information here.
Are you a Belgian stakeholder not located in Flanders?
Since in Belgium NCP services are regionalised, there are 4 other NCP organisations responsible for other stakeholder groups:
Related link: Looking for someone specific? Check the most up-to-date list of European Horizon Europe NCP advisors or of European Digital Europe NCP advisors on the Funding and Tenders Portal of the Commission.
To promote equal and consistent support, the Commission has set out a common reference for NCPs in all participating countries. Find the common reference for NCPs here .
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) European Innovative Training Network “PBNv2 - Next generation Pass-By Noise approaches for new powertrain vehicles” started in May 2017. Their research has the shared objective of investigating the possibilities to decrease pass-by noise of vehicles.
The project is a collaboration between 17 research institutions and companies in the European automotive R&D and provides a learning environment for 14 PhD fellows. The Belgian partner is the Noise and Vibration Research Group of KU Leuven, and this project is one of the many Horizon 2020 MSCA Innovative Training Networks that the KU Leuven research group participates in.