Research Foundation Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen) – FWO

The Research Foundation Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen) – FWO was funded as the National Fund for Scientific Research in 1928 as an institution of public utility for the support of scientific research, at the initiative of King Albert I. It is an integrated research funding agency supporting research in the Flemish community of Belgium. The FWO -Vlaanderen's activities are aimed at a push back of the frontiers of knowledge in all disciplines, stimulating and funding fundamental academic research at the universities in the Flemish Community and at scientific research institutes. FWO - Vlaanderen is Flanders' instrument for supporting and stimulating fundamental research and advancing the scientific quality on the basis of academic, inter-university competition. It is the basis for new knowledge and its associated human capital opens ways for the goal-oriented, applied, technological, strategic research.

Contact

Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Vlaanderen (FWO)

Egmontstraat 5

BE-1000 Brussels

Belgium

E-mail: post@fwo.be