PERMANENT CALL (2025) - BOF SABBATICAL LEAVE

Research

Funding organisation:

Bijzonder OnderzoeksFonds

What?

The BOF programme Sabbatical Leave cofinances outgoing international research stays at international universities and/or research institutions for periods of min. 3 up to max. 12 months (without interruption). This programme aims at facilitating the stay abroad by providing cofinancing of costs for accommodation or travel which cannot be claimed from FWO (detailed information in the internal guidelines). 

NEW 
The costs for replacing the ZAP member in the faculty are not eligible in this programme, but can be requested with the personnel department through FINTRA, provided that this BOF-application was approved and the teaching assignment cannot be covered by other funding. You will be asked to indicate in the application form the volume of the teaching assignment that needs to be covered in your absence. 

Who?

• ZAP member of Hasselt University​ with a minimum employment of 60%;
• applications can be submitted from Associated professor level onwards;
• funding can be granted once in the academic career.

Application?

• Application form + annexes
• The FWO-application should be included as an annex to the BOF-application.​ Approved application for external funding (FWO or other*) is required to release BOF funding;
  *If other external grants (ex. Fulbright, …) are acquired for a sabbatical leave for research purposes, BOF@uhasselt.be can be contacted to evaluate possibilities of cofinancing through BOF.
• The stay must be focused on strengthening the (strategic) basic research within the researcher’s research group/institute/centre.
• ​Please explain your future research ambitions and how this sabbatical leave will add to that.
• The scientific added value of the Sabbatical Leave must be motivated.
• Positive advice from the discipline group (vakgroepraad) and faculty board is required. If affiliated to a research institute/centre, a positive advice of the research institute/centre is required.
• Send to BOF@uhasselt.be

Regulations?

• BOF  Sabbatical leave programme
• Internal guidelines (incl. information on insurances).

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail lieve.tulleneers@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211269041