National Contact Points (NCPs) provide information and advice to potential applicants and beneficiaries, through the project life cycle. NCP Flanders gives advice to all stakeholders located in Flanders, such as research centres, higher education institutions, SMEs, large companies, government institutions etc. The NCP advisors are located in the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO).

How to find your way on the NCP Flanders website

This website is an important source of information and communication channel with our stakeholders. There is a news section, event calendar and a document and video library which can be searched with key words of your choice.

For each Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and Horizon 2020 programme part a dedicated page offers the latest information on these programmes. Cross-programme subjects are summarised in info sheets.

Flemish stakeholders can create a myHORIZON account to receive regular updates in their mail box.

Outside the Horizon and DIGITAL framework programmes many other EU funding sources on research and innovation exist which can be consulted via the EU other funding page. The EU Funding Overview is an exhaustive overview of EU funding programmes and agencies.

Please take a look around and in case you would have any question do not hesitate to get in touch with us!

Partner search assistance

NCP Flanders will assist you in finding partners for international cooperation and connecting you to different networks, such as the Enterprise Europe Network.

The Enterprise Europe Network helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions. The Network is active in more than 60 countries worldwide. It brings together 3,000 experts from more than 600 member organisations – all renowned for their excellence in business support.

Teams of Network experts in each member organisation offer personalised services to businesses. They know the local business environment and have contacts for business opportunities worldwide. The Network can also offer a targeted approach aimed specifically at your business sector. Its expert groups cover all key economic sectors, from healthcare to agrofood, from intelligent energy to fashion and textile.

 

Testimonial

image of Luciad - Geospatial software for mission-critical operations

Luciad - Geospatial software for mission-critical operations

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