PERMANENT CALL (2025) - BOF SABBATICAL LIGHT
Research
Funding organisation:
Bijzonder OnderzoeksFonds
What?
The BOF Sabbatical Light programme (co)finances outgoing international research stays at international universities and/or research institutions for periods of min. 14 weeks to max. 24 weeks to be realised within a time span of 12 months. This way the stay can be planned in a non-consecutive way while still spending a substantial period abroad (min. 2 stays of 7 consecutive weeks with the same academic partner or at least 1 stay of 14 consecutive weeks with the same academic partner). Stays can be planned in periods in which the teaching assignment is less demanding or in which this has less impact on the family and/or when family members can travel along.
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
- Application for external funding (FWO or other*) is required
*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 light 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 light programme
- Internal guidelines (incl. information on insurances).
Contact Hasselt University?
E-mail lieve.tulleneers@uhasselt.be
Tel. +3211269041