Scientific prizes
FWO Excellence Prizes
The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) will award the following prizes for the period 2016-2020 to prominent researchers from the scientific community in Flanders.
» Read moreScientific Award AstraZeneca Foundation – Disruptive approaches exploiting cellular genetic defects in cancer 2022
Rewards innovative scientific research leading to novel insights on disruptive approaches exploiting cellular genetic defects in cancer.
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Scientific Award AstraZeneca Foundation – Innovative approaches to promote prevention in public health and clinical care 2022
Rewards innovative scientific research leading to novel insights on innovative approaches to promote prevention in public health and clinical care.
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Scientific Award AstraZeneca Foundation – Psycho-social vulnerability during the pandemic 2022
Rewards innovative scientific research leading to novel insights on psycho-social vulnerability during the pandemic.
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Baillet Latour Grant for Medical Research (GMR)
This grant will be awarded to a young independent investigator of any nationality to conduct medical research in Belgium.
» Read moreBaillet Latour Biomedical Award 2023
The Baillet Latour Biomedical Award - Supporting Research Careers in Belgium is conceived as an incentive for the career development of young talented scientists. This award is intended to help them pursue or consolidate their innovative and groundbreaking research projects in Belgium.
» Read moreBiR&D Cross-Disciplinary PhD Award
In recognition of a PhD thesis with societal relevance that presents an original and cross-disciplinary contribution with potential industrial valorisation.
» Read moreScientific Prize Gustave SofinaBoël Fellowships
Thanks to the help of the King Baudouin Foundation, acting on behalf of the SofinaBoël Fund for Education and Talent, FWO and F.R.S.-FNRS may grant the SofinaBoël Fellowships to talented PhD students for a research and/or training stay abroad.
» Read moreIBM Innovation Award
In recognition of an outstanding PhD thesis that presents an original contribution to informatics or its applications.
» Read morePhD Fellowships L’Oréal – UNESCO
The cooperation protocol between L’Oréal Belgilux, the Belgian Regional Commissions for UNESCO, the F.R.S-FNRS (National Fund for Scientific Research) and the FWO (Reseach Foundation - Flanders) offers three young women the opportunity to participate in a scientific research once every two years.
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