Description
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS, Bruxelles(Belgique)
This research council, was established in 1928. Its founding principle is the promotion of basic scientific research in the French-speaking Community of Belgium. The organisation has four associated funds: Medical Research, Nuclear Science, Collective Basic Research and Agro-Industrial Research. As the organisation does not harbour laboratories in its premises, all the research is carried out in universities. The organisation supports individual researchers. It awards temporary grants to fund doctoral students and grants for qualified researchers, scientific research workers and research managers. The resources available to the F.R.S.-FNRS and its associated funds consist mainly of subsidies granted to them by the French Community and the Federal State of Belgium. Also, the Fonds receives private funds to be spread within the scientific community on the sole basis of scientific excellence. The applicants are selected via peer-review evaluation. The evaluation is done by 32 scientific committees, whose members are leading national and international scientists in their respective field. The Fonds works on a bottom-up approach, which means that there are no targeted approach calls but exclusively proposals freely created by the interested researchers or researchers-to-be. All scientific areas are covered and scientific excellence is the only criterion. The organisation funds Belgian researchers who will coordinate or participate in a FP7 project.
Invited expert reviewer
| Period | 4 Jul 2011 → 4 Jul 2025 |
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| Held at | Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS, Expert reviewer |
| Degree of Recognition | International |