Funding and Calls

Find current funding opportunities and calls for postdoctoral researchers at Ghent University. Explore grants, fellowships, and programs to support your research and career development.

Funding Opportunities

A general overview of predoctoral and postdoctoral funding is available on Ghent University’s research portal. Please consult this page regularly for the most up-to-date information, including (among others) postdoctoral opportunities and projects and institutional cooperation:


Postdoctoral opportunities	Projects & Institutional cooperation
BOF - Postdoctoral Fellowships	FWO - Medium-scale research infrastructure
FWO - Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship	FWO - Large-scale research infrastructure
FWO - Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship	FWO - SBO (Strategic Basic Research)
FWO - Odysseus initiative	FWO - TBM (Applied Biomedical Research with a Primary Social finality)
FWO - Senior Clinical investigator	FWO - Bilateral Agreements
FWO - Scientific stay in Flanders	FWO - Research networks
VLAIO - Innovation mandates	International Foundation for Science (IFS)
EU - MSCA – Postdoctoral Fellowship	Researchers Networks (COST)
EU - ERC grant at Ghent University	BOF - Interuniversity projects
BAEF: Fellowships for postdoc research of US-citizens in Belgium	Horizon Europe Collaborative projects
Fulbright Scholarship Programme	ENLIGHT
	Erasmus+

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For international and European funding, it is useful to follow the EU team, which shares regular updates on EU-related news.
Contact the Funding Academy Network on Teams. The Funding Academy is supported by a network of central and faculty staff who assist researchers in securing funding for both research and teaching. It serves as a Network for knowledge sharing on acquiring funding. Read more about the annual Funding Academy Day.
More on finding and managing funding can be found on the intranet (employees only).

Mobility

Many researchers spend a considerable time abroad during their postdoc phase. If your destination is well-chosen, it gives you the chance to work in the best environments in the world, to network with key people in your field, to learn new skills and insights and ultimately, to challenge yourself as a person and as a professional.

Interested in mobility? Read more about International mobility during your PhD and/or postdoc.

Overview current other calls

The University of Tartu invites doctoral and early career researchers to explore opportunities to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship with supervisors at the University of Tartu (Estonia).

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent researchers who wish to develop their careers through international mobility and advanced research training. Interested candidates can identify potential supervisors and research topics at the University of Tartu and prepare a joint proposal for the MSCA call, expected to open in April 2026 with a submission deadline in September 2026.

More information about the opportunity and available supervisors can be found here.

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