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Grants Office

Grants Office Team

Our success stories

Research at VIB strongly relies on national and international funding. This funding allows our researchers to verify their great scientific ideas.

  • >100 grant opportunities identified
  • 3 in-depth grant writing workshops a year for junior scientists
  • 15 individual ERC brainstorm sessions on a yearly basis
  • Overall appreciation of 8 on 10 on the Grants Office activities 
  • Total number of running grants – 287
  • Total budget lined to running grants – 233.8Mio euro

RC grants running – successrate ERC
Running ERC proof of concept grants
MSCA grants running

Average success rate of 28% for MSCA and ERC at VIB

Number of funding agencies we receive funding from: 38

Funding Agencies

Researchers strongly rely on funding from national and international funding agencies. Identifying the best matching opportunity and writing a winning grant application is a difficult and very time-consuming task for many researchers. The centrally organized and specialized International Grants Office of VIB assists its researchers in all aspects of this process. Together with experts in each of the VIB centers, the Grants Office provides support at each and every step of the grant application process and running grant.

The team members proactively scout for funding opportunities for the researchers in their lab, they assist them in putting together the strongest possible application, and they support researchers to navigate through the – sometimes - complex administrative processes.

Funding Your Postdoc

Funding your postdoc at VIB

This booklet contains details on all available grants for postdocs, their eligibility requirements, and their deadlines.

How To Write a Winning Grant

Tips & Tricks – How to write a winning grant?

The Grants Office has drafted guidelines with detailed tips & tricks on how to write a winning grant application, including tips on how to write an abstract, and get reviewers excited.

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GrantsQuest

Every step in the grant application process is supported via GrantsQuest. This platform provides a detailed list of all funding opportunities (only available for VIB scientists).

Our tool provides

  • VIB researchers
    • >100 funding opportunities
    • Easy and uniform grant info on one-pagers
    • Centralised portal for funding communication and support
    • Easy overview of funding activities (in preparation/submitted/granted)
  • VIB researchers
    • Instant overview of funding details
    • Overview of due dates of reports