FWO - Scientific Mobility projects South Korea 2025

Research, Internationalization

Funding organisation:

Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen

What?

To promote scientific collaboration between South Korea and Flanders, the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) organizes the program 'Joint Scientific Mobility projects with South Korea' in cooperation with the Korean National Research Foundation (NRF). This program focuses on collaboration between the two countries and the exchange of junior researchers.
In each cooperation project on the Flemish side, at least one junior scientist with no more than 12 years of postdoctoral experience should perform an exchange towards South Korea.

Within these joint cooperation projects, FWO and NRF cover the travel, accommodation, and living expenses of their own researchers:

• FWO offers researchers from Flanders: a daily living allowance of € 66 (max. € 1,650/month) and covers the travel expenses towards/from South Korea (to be booked via OMNIA Travel).
• NRF pays the South Korean researchers an amount per year (about € 12.400) to cover their travel and living expenses.

Who?

Projects must be submitted by a Flemish and a South Korean Principal Investigator. All PI's are required to have a PhD degree and hold throughout the entire period of the project an appointment of at least 50% at UHasselt. 
It is essential to update your E-loket profile before submitting your application. 

Application?

Proposals must be submitted simultaneously to FWO and NRF.

NEW: For FWO you submit your application through the FWO E-portal by using the specific digital application form under ‘International collaboration / Mobility projects’. Please also check the "Specific points of attention FWO application" you can find in the "Guide for applicants call 2025" on the FWO webpage.

Deadline of submission: June 27^th, 2025 (at FWO:17:00 Belgian time).

NEW: From 2025 onwards, the online FWO application form will contain a specific tab, 'Research Security'. Applicants are required, based on the topic of their research proposal, involved countries and foreign partners, to complete a set of questions regarding unwanted knowledge transfer, misuse of research results and/or interference. If as a result of this, your project proposal needs a research security approval, please contact the dedicated contact persons at UHasselt immediately via rri@uhasselt.be, preferably before the submission of your proposal.
  

More information?

You can find the necessary documents and the regulations on the FWO website.

Please always contact research@uhasselt.be if you want to apply.

Deadline

27.06.2025

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail ilse.das@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211268098