Call for projects Belgium 2025

Call for national projects Belux

Biocodex Microbiota Foundation 2025

“Gut microbiota in human health and diseases”

Definition

Biocodex has been involved in research on gut microbiota for many years.

The Biocodex Microbiota Foundation is the ‘organizer’ of a National Research Grant in 2025 for a fundamental or clinical project relating to “Gut Microbiota in Human Health and diseases”.

Price 2025

The total grant amount is 25.000 euro (VAT and potential overhead included).

The award must be paid to an organization (public, research, hospital, association). In their application letter, candidates must specify the way the award is to be paid.

Candidates

The award is open for doctors in medicine and researchers working in the Belux (holder of a Master Degree and/or Ph.D.).

Application form 

It must include the following documents (see ‘download Application Form’ below):

• An Application Letter;
• The Applicant’s cv;
• A letter of recommendation from their Head of Department;
• A detailed presentation of the project: rationale, objective, methodology, expected results, estimated length of time, justification of the allotted financing, opinion of the IRB, if necessary, hospital, publishing strategy (including authorship) and research teams involved in the project;
• A one-page summary (included in the 4-page presentation)

The submission of an application constitutes acceptance of these rules.

Click to download the application form in the doc.

Incomplete application forms will not be considered.

If you have trouble accessing the application, please email bmfbelux@biocodex.be for a copy of the application.

Review process

All projects will be independently reviewed by the 4 members of the scientific committee. Biocodex Benelux won’t be implemented in the reviewing process at any time.

The final decision will be made after a consensus meeting where a full agreement is obtained.

Conflict of interest

Members of the scientific committee will not contribute to the evaluation and ranking of their own projects or any other projects with potential conflict of interest.

The final decision together with a short review report will be returned to every participant.

Candidate engagement

The Applicant agrees to inform the BMF jury and Biocodex Benelux Foundation of any financing that has already been received for this project, or a request for funding to another structure.

The Applicant agrees to submit the results of the research for presentation (oral or poster) at a(n) (inter)national scientific conference.

The Applicant agrees to submit a progress report of research work to the BMF Jury and Biocodex Benelux Foundation after 1 year.

The candidate will mention the support of the Biocodex Microbiota Foundation in all presentations or publications of the research work.

The applicant agrees to be transparent to the BMF on how the budget is spent.

If for any reason a granted project has not started within one year following the attribution, the applicant agrees to promptly communicate this to the BMF Jury and Biocodex Benelux Foundation. The grant then must be returned to the BMF.

Jury

The current composition of the Scientific committee members:

• Prof. Dr. Françoise SMETS (Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Bruxelles, UC Louvain);
• Prof. Dr. Bruno HAUSER (UZ Brussel, VUB);
• Prof. Dr. Hubert LOUIS (Hôpital ERASME Bruxelles, ULB);
• Prof. Dr. Jeroen RAES (VIB, KU Leuven).

The scientific committee’s decision is final, and cannot be contested.

Attribution 2025

The deadline for sending applications (by e-mail) is 31st of March 2025.

The jury will grant 1 project. The decision will be based on quality and originality. The granted project will be announced by May 2025.

The announcement of the winning project and the presentation of the award will take place during a ceremony (place and date to be confirmed).

Ethical approval

The grant will only be attributed upon receiving the ethical approval.

Postponement of the Benelux Award

The jury remains the right to not attribute the grant in case of insufficient scientific quality of the projects.

Applications must be sent to the following address: bmfbelux@biocodex.be

The deadline for sending applications is 31st of March 2025.

If you have any questions or need a copy of the application, please email bmfbelux@biocodex.be