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International and Inter-federal Coordination
Belgian Science Policy
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Return grants for researchers working abroad
In a nutshell...
The Back to Belgium Grants of the federal Science Policy are intended to foster the return to Belgium of talented researchers doing R&D in a foreign research centre. Each year, the jury meets in May and proposes to the Minister in charge a list of candidates considered apt to receive a 24 months funding. The selection criteria are mainly based on the scientific level of the candidate, the quality and the feasibility of the research proposal, the post-doc expertise acquired abroad and its possible use and its contribution to the host unit as well as the career perspectives in Belgium.
In order to palliate any defection, a reserve list is also foreseen. The jury is constituted of Belgian and foreign experts. Its composition takes into account the diversity of the proposals.
To this day, the Back to Belgium Grants have benefited to nearly 100 researchers.
Call for proposals
The call for proposals for the selection 2013 is closed.
The selection procedure is started. The candidates will be informed personally about the future developments. Please contact us for more information.
Documents
- Information note for the selection 2013
- FAQs
- Check- list for the eligibility of the application
- Application document
Beneficiaries
| Beneficiaries 2011 | |
|---|---|
| BERGER Emmanuel | The Criminal Jury in France and England in the 18th and 19th Centuries. A comparative Study of Popular Justice (UCL - Prof. Xavier Rousseaux) |
| DE BRABANDERE Loreto | Nitrate Transformation Processes in the Schelde under Reduced Sewage Inputs (NITRAPS) (VUB - Prof. Willy Baeyens) |
| DEROUAUX Adeline | Interactions and dynamic of the main E. coli divisome proteins in membranes (ULg - Prof. Bernard Joris) |
| GOFFAUX Valérie | Orientation tuning of face identity coding in the brain, a pattern-analysis fMRI approach (KUL - Prof. Hans op de Beek) |
| GUILLIAMS Martin | Study of the functional role of the distinct lung and liver antigen presenting cell subsets in vivo (UGent - Prof. Bart Lambrecht) |
| JANKY Rekin's | Discovery and prioritization of gene regulatory modules driving oncogenesis (KUL - Prof. Stein Aerts) |
| LAMBERT Olivier | Fossil sperm whales and their prey: evolution of physeteroid feeding strategies (KBIN-IRSNB - Prof. Etienne Steurbaut) |
| NELISSEN Koen | The role of visual and motor systems in action understanding (KUL - Prof. Wim Vanduffel) |
| VERHAEGHE Jeroen | Novel motion correction techniques for PET imaging of awake animals (UA - Prof. Steven Staelens) |
| Beneficiaries 2010 | |
|---|---|
| COPPIETERS Ken | NKT cell-mediated modulation of Th1/Th17 balances and its consequences on osteoclastogenesis in autoimmune arthritis (UZ Gent - Prof. Dirk Elewaut) |
| DE VOS Dirk | Multiscale mathematical modeling of root growth in Arabidopsis thaliana (UA - Prof. Dr. Kris Vissenberg) |
| FANIEL Sébastien | Electronic and spin properties of one-dimensional semiconductor systems (UCL - Dr. Sorin Melinte) |
| JOCQUE Merlijn | Metacommunity dynamics of Ostracoda (Crustacea) in South and Central American bromeliads (Bromeliacea) (KBIN-IRSNB - Prof. Boudewijn Goddeeris & Koen Martens) |
| KNIPPENBERG Stefan | Conjugated molecules as optical probes for biomembranes and DNA: Theoretical insights (UMONS - Prof. Roberto Lazzaroni) |
| MERLA Laura | Transnational care-giving in the Belgian context: an analysis of the interplay between intrafamilial dynamics and the exchange of care between adult migrants and their parents (UCL - Prof. Isabel Yépez del Castillo) |
| ROLAND Jérémie | Computational aspects of quantum information processing : study of adiabatic quantum computation, quantum algorithms based on quantum walks, and distributed computation with quantum resources (ULB - Prof. Nicolas Cerf) |
| VAN DOORSSELAERE Tom | Forward modeling : revolutionising coronal seismology (K.U.Leuven - Prof. Rony Keppens) |
 The return grants are supported by the European Commission within the framework of a COFUND (FP7-PEOPLE-COFUND-2008, n°246540) |