Assist, Train & Advise
NCP Flanders has a wide range of services to offer on assitance, training and advise
TRAIN
NCP Flanders offers, in collaboration with other partners, different types of trainings throughout the year.
- Training workshops for applicants: Organisation of targeted workshops for prospective Horizon Europe applicants on specific themes, with presentation of success stories.
- Training seminars for multipliers: Organisation of seminars for EU projects advisors from RTOs, Universities; SME innovation departments, clusters’ representatives, etc.
- Master classes: Organisation of training seminars involving the participation of foreign experts with significant experience in the Framework Programme.
- Information and training courses: training on topics such as successful proposal writing, European funding for SMEs, intellectual property rights, etc.
Consult the event calendar for upcoming events and/or browse past events for useful training materials.
ASSIST
NCP Flanders will assist you in finding partners for international cooperation and connecting you to different networks.
Attention: if you are not located in Flanders, please check here who can help you.
If you are new to Horizon Europe
Please consult the dedicated Horizon Europe for beginners video series (including hand-outs of the presentations).
If you are an academic researcher
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.
If you are interested in the strategic dimension
The various work programmes with calls for proposals are drafted by several Programme Committees consisting of delegates of the participating countries in Horizon Europe.
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 Europe programme committee delegate from Flanders of the programme of your interest.
If you want to be connected to international partners
Directly look for partners from abroad on our dedicated partner searches page.
Find more information on our partner search services and other possibilities, including the services of the Enterprise Europe Network here.
Please find a summary of these main connection services in these slides
ADVISE
NCP offers advice to potential applicants and beneficiaries.
Support for proposal writers
NCP Flanders guides stakeholders located in Flanders during the whole process of planning of and application to a Horizon call topic.
Any Flanders-based organisation – research centres, universities, companies, etc. – can request advice from the NCP.
Opportunities and strategy: identification of Horizon funding opportunities that match your project ideas and long-term strategy
Concept validation: optimisation of your project ideas to fit identified Horizon opportunities
Planning of the project: Tips and tricks are elaborated in this video series on Proposal Writing under Horizon Europe.
Writing process: The steps of the evaluation process are elaborated in detail also in this video series, which provides you with tips and tricks to write a good proposal.
Critical proposal review: proposal writing follow-up to increase the quality and chances of success of your proposal
Project management advice
Support to on-going projects with project and financial reporting, contract amendments and other legal and financial issues. Administrative, legal and financial issues are elaborated on the Support for Legal and Financial issues page.
Need a helping hand?
The NCP advisor in your field is open to receive your questions from the complete proposal and project cycle about the call topics of the programme of your interest. Get the right contact details of whom to turn to under each Horizon Europe programme section or via contact in the menu on top of the page.
Testimonial
Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe
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.
