FWO - Research Projects JEZ!

Research

Funding organisation:

Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen

What?

JEZ! is the new youth collective of VTM, Qmusic, HLN and Belfius. The youth collective JEZ! strives to place young people back in the heart of society, to connect them and to give them a voice and a face. The JEZ! fund was set up at the King Baudouin Foundation to manage the proceeds of the fundraising in the context of JEZ!.

With this call, JEZ!, together with the FWO, wants to support fundamental scientific research on the physical, artistic or psychosocial development of young people.

For this call, the FWO provides up to € 1,035,523 (excluding overhead) to support two-year research projects on “development of young people on a physical, artistic or psychosocial level". Project proposals are preferably aimed at generating new knowledge that can contribute to the development of tools to enable teachers, sports clubs, cultural associations or youth workers to optimally support the development of young people. Within JEZ! research projects, young people or their representatives should be involved as stakeholders, both during the project genesis and during the project implementation.

Features

• Period: 2 years

• Staff and consumables: at least €50,000 per year for the entire project (including all partners) and at most €145,000 per year per participating institution, with the exception of the non-Flemish partners, who may receive up to 10% of the total budget for the project.
• Equipment: maximum €150,000 per project

• Theme: development of young people on a physical, artistic or psychosocial level
  
  
• NOTE: the humanitarian research projects, such as these in the scope of JEZ!, differ in some substantial aspects from the fundamental research projects of FWO; e.g.:
• These projects will NOT distinguish between a junior or a senior project type;
• These projects will NOT be taken into account for calculating the maximum of 2 projects for which one can be (co)-supervisor at a given time.
• A specific panel of scientific experts composed by FWO will evaluate your application; it is not necessary to select a panel yourself from the regular FWO expert panels.
  
  
• Deadline: 3 April 2023, 17:00
• Announcement of results: 13 December 2023
• Start of project: 1 January 2024

Who?

• As a team of researchers you need funding for consumables, equipment and/or personnel.
• Your research will be carried out at an eligible Flemish main host institution, possibly in collaboration with other Flemish and/or federal research institutions (Article 7); a non-Flemish research institution may participate for 10 percent of the budget
• Your research will be carried out under the supervision of a supervisor-spokesperson, possibly in collaboration with other (co-)supervisors (Article 10 - 12).
• Emeriti with a 10% paid appointment can only act as co-supervisor.
• All material acquired with a grant for consumables/equipment of the FWO shall become the university's property. If you want to use core facilities during the execution of your project, do make sure that the fees for that use are budgeted correctly in the consumables expenditure category.
• The host institution is the employer of staff remunerated on research projects.
• Supervisors and co-supervisors are not allowed any remuneration or accumulation with remuneration on a research project.
• The actual cost is used when the name(s) of the researcher(s) is (are) already known. When the name(s) of the researcher(s) is (are) not yet known, indicative amounts may be used.
• You agree with the Research Integrity Clause

Application?

Application procedure

• You submit your proposal online
• For the collaboration between institutions, consent is given in one of three ways:
  • Partners who can also be main host institution: their consent is sent directly to FWO.
  • Flemish partners who cannot be main host institution: the supervisor-spokesperson collects the signed consent forms from all these partners. With this declaration those institutions commit themselves to act as host institutions for the project and more specifically with respect to the research work that will be performed by their researchers in the project. The declarations from these institutions have to be uploaded as an attachment to the application form. Download the template for this declaration.
  • Non-Flemish partners: a collaboration agreement has to be made at latest 9 months after the start of the project and is stored by the Flemish main host institution.

• Each (co-)supervisor(-spokesperson) has to upload a CV. Please do use the template provided in the form.
• Your application is submitted to a number of external referees for evaluation.
• Rebuttal: You will be given the opportunity to react on the comments of the external referees and internal (members FWO expert panels) evaluation reports between September 8 and 19 2023. The supervisor-spokesperson of the application receives at the beginning of the rebuttal phase an invitation on the (primary) e-mail address as filled out in the FWO e-portal – this is the e-mail address by which the application is submitted to the supervisor-spokesperson’s main host institution. An invitation will be sent to this email address. Please also check your spam folder to make sure you do not miss this important message. If you have not received a message from FWO by 8 September 2023, the FWO should be informed as soon as possible.
• A dedicated jury of scientific experts evaluates your application.
• The jury reports to the board of trustees.
• The board of trustees takes the final decision.
• Afterwards you will receive feedback on your application.

More information?

You can find more information about this call, the guidelines and Regulations on the FWO website.

Deadline intern

20.03.2023, 03.04.2023

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail sarah.szyr@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211269052