How can we assist you
National Contact Points (NCPs) provide information and advice to potential applicants and beneficiaries, through the project life cycle. NCP Flanders gives advice to all stakeholders located in Flanders, such as research centres, higher education institutions, SMEs, large companies, government institutions etc. The NCP advisors are located in the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO).
How to find your way on the NCP Flanders website
This website is an important source of information and communication channel with our stakeholders. There is a news section, event calendar and a document and video library which can be searched with key words of your choice.
For each Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and Horizon 2020 programme part a dedicated page offers the latest information on these programmes. Cross-programme subjects are summarised in info sheets.
Flemish stakeholders can create a myHORIZON account to receive regular updates in their mail box.
Outside the Horizon and DIGITAL framework programmes many other EU funding sources on research and innovation exist which can be consulted via the EU other funding page. The EU Funding Overview is an exhaustive overview of EU funding programmes and agencies.
Please take a look around and in case you would have any question do not hesitate to get in touch with us!
Partner search assistance
NCP Flanders will assist you in finding partners for international cooperation and connecting you to different networks, such as the Enterprise Europe Network.
The Enterprise Europe Network helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions. The Network is active in more than 60 countries worldwide. It brings together 3,000 experts from more than 600 member organisations – all renowned for their excellence in business support.
Teams of Network experts in each member organisation offer personalised services to businesses. They know the local business environment and have contacts for business opportunities worldwide. The Network can also offer a targeted approach aimed specifically at your business sector. Its expert groups cover all key economic sectors, from healthcare to agrofood, from intelligent energy to fashion and textile.
Information sessions
NCP Flanders organises information sessions on specific topics and promotes sessions and events organised by the European Commission.
Consult the event calendar for upcoming events and/or browse past events for useful training materials.
Need a helping hand?
NCP Flanders guides stakeholders located in Flanders during the whole process of planning of and application to a DIGITAL call topic.
Opportunities and strategy: identification of DIGITAL funding opportunities that match your project ideas and long-term strategy.
Concept validation: optimisation of your project ideas to fit identified DIGITAL opportunities.
The NCP advisor in your field is open to receive your questions from the complete proposal and project cycle about the call topics of the programme of your interest. Get the right contact details of whom to turn to via Contact in the menu on top of the page.
If you are interested in the strategic dimension
The various work programmes with calls for proposals are drafted by a Programme Committee consisting of delegates of the participating countries in Digital Europe.
A representative from EWI (Department of Economy, Science and Innovation) informs on the drafting process and collects input from stakeholders located in Flanders to bring it on the Belgian and European level, which results in a concrete work programme. You can contact the Digital Europe programme committee delegate from Flanders to provide input such as suggestions for new topics, requests for adaptations on scale, content of proposed projects or feedback on former participants.
Testimonial
Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe
The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.
