Postdoctoral Fellowships
VLAIO is a Flemish organisation stimulating and supporting innovation and entrepreneurship.
VLAIO Postdoctoral Fellowships focus on research with a strong technology transfer component and are available to researchers who intend to commercialise their research findings through valorisation agreements with industry or through the creation of a spin-off company.
Timing
There are two deadlines: one in March, one in September.
Duration
- Spin-off mandate: max. 24 months
- Fase 1 - Fase 2 mandate: max. 12 months + 24 months
- Fase 2 mandate: max. 24 months
Who can apply?
- Everyone with a PhD degree
- At least one industrial promoter from a Flemish company
- At least one scientific promoter from a Flemish university or other knowledge center
Researchers from outside Ghent University who wish to apply, first have to find a professor at Ghent University that will accept them as a candidate. You can look for a professor in your research domain through our research directory.
How does it work?
Your application can be in English or in Dutch. The rest of the procedure will be in the language of your application.
- Contact Ghent University for help with your budget. The only information we need is the number of years of work experience you have.
If you will be an employer of the company in Fase 2, they will make your budget. - Create an online application at the VLAIO website an send the link to the online application to us (vlaams-federaal@ugent.be).
- Add all the partners and fill in all the necessary information. The last 2 steps of each form will have to be finalised by the legal representative of each partner. For UGent this is the rector.
- A signed term sheet or mutual cooperation agreement between Ghent University and the company must be submitted with VLAIO within 4 weeks after the application deadline. Contact our TechTransfer (Karen.Cure@UGent.be) office.
- Evaluation. In May or November there will be an oral defense. You will have to expound your project and the economic value of the results to a jury of experts.
The granted projects are known at the end of July or December.
How much funding is involved?
- Salary as a post-doc, depending on the Ghent University wage scales
- Consumables, calculated according to the cost model of VLAIO
More information
- www.vlaio.be (Innovation mandates)
- Information session VLAIO Innovation mandates 2022
- Presentation UGent Baekeland mandates en Innovation mandates
- Presentation Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen Innovation mandates