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Research Programmes and infrastructures

BELSPO's Research Programme and infrastructures Department provides funding for research activities in support of federal competencies and international commitments made by the federal authorities. In this context, the Department prepares and manages a portfolio of funding actions including various research programmes, research infrastructures and science-policy interfaces, and participates in national and international cooperation initiatives.

Research Programmes

Research Programmes

  • Ongoing research programmes:
    Aeronautics • BRAIN-be • DIGIT • Drugs • FED-tWIN • Impulse Actions • P4Science-S4Policy • POST-COVID
  • Ended research programmes:
  • Agora • BePoles • IUAP • NorthSea • SSD • TA
Research Infrastructures

Research Infrastructures

  • BCCM • RV Belgica • Biodiversity • Princess Elisabeth Station
National and international co-operation

National and international co-operation

  • BELSPO participation in European projects • Scientific diving • DEFRA research programme (Defence-related Research Action) • ESFRI-FED (Structural programme in support of federal components of ESFRI research infrastructures) • ERA-NETs • JPI and and Partnerships

our websites

  • Belspo-EUprojects - BELSPO participation in European projects
  • BCCM - Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms
  • Biodiversity.be - Belgian Biodiversity Platform
  • BRAIN-be | BRAIN-be 2.0 - Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks
  • Citizen Science (CS)  - CS-initiatives of the Federal Scientific Institutes (FSI)
  • DEFRA - DEFRA research programme (Defence-related Research Action)
  • Drugs - Research programme in support of the federal drugs policy document
  • ESFRI-FED - Structural programme in support of federal components of ESFRI research infrastructures
  • FED-tWIN
  • Impuls - Impulse Actions
  • P4Science-S4Policy - The research programmes "Policy for Science” (P4Science) & “Science for Policy” (S4Policy).
  • POST-COVID - Building an evidence base and lessons learned for future preparedness
  • RV Belgica - The federal research vessel "Belgica"