National Contact Point Flanders (NCP Flanders) fulfils its services towards stakeholders located in Flanders.
Since in Belgium NCP services are regionalised, there are 4 other NCP organisations responsible for other stakeholder groups:
- NCP Brussels for enterprises and international organisations located in Brussels
- NCP FNRS for universities of the French speaking community
- NCP Federal, for the federal institutes
- NCP Wallonie for the enterprises of the Walloon region.
Related link: Looking for someone specific? Check the most up-to-date list of European NCP advisors on the Funding and Tenders Portal of the EC.
If you are a staff member of a university, university college or research organisation… Most of these organisations located in Flanders, have installed a European Funding Support Office which is your first contact point.
The various work programmes are drafted by sixteen Programme Committees consisting of delegates of the participating countries in Horizon 2020.
Representatives from EWI (Department of Economy, Science and Innovation) inform on the drafting process and collect input from stakeholders located in Flanders to bring it on the Belgian and European level, which results in a concrete work programme. This input can typically consist of suggestions for new topics, requests for adaptations on scale, content of proposed projects or feedback on former participants.
You can contact the Horizon 2020 programme committee delegate from Flanders of the programme of your interest.
As soon as the committees for Horizon EU will be composed, we'll add the information.
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Enterprise Europe Network Vlaanderen
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The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.