Call 2025 for new RT, RF and RI-Euphresco project proposals
Each year, the FPS Health launches a call for projects addressed to all Belgian research institutions, with the aim of submitting project proposals to support policy in the areas of food safety, animal health and plant health. The selection procedure is managed by the Contract Research unit.
The timetable for the 2026 call and the selection procedure for these new projects are detailed in the applicants’ guide. The selection procedure was explained at an information session on Tuesday 25 February. You can download the presentation here.
On 21 March 2025, the topic descriptions of the RI projects (Euphresco - plant health) were updated in the applicants’ guide and in Annex 1.
| STEP 1 Pre-proposal |
Call launch | 14 February 2025 |
| Information session (webinar) | 25 February 2025, 13:30-15:30 | |
| Deadline for submitting | 11 April 2025, 12 :00 | |
| STEP 2 Full proposal |
Invitation for step 2 | end of June / early July 2025 |
| Deadline for submitting | 12 September 2025, 12:00 | |
| Grant | Communication of results RT&RF | at the latest mid-February 2026 |
| Communication of results RI | mid November 2025 |
Document
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applicant_s_guide_call_2026_update_20250321.pdf PDF document - 1.57 MB
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annex_1_reseach_topics_update_20250321.pdf PDF document - 461.21 KB
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Frequency tables FCS2014 ZIP document - 1.55 MB
Form
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Annex 2 Template RT pre-proposal (step 1) DOCX document - 69.64 KB
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Annex 3 Template RT full proposal (step 2) DOCX document - 78.9 KB
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Annex 4 Template RF pre-proposal (step 1) DOCX document - 69.3 KB
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Annex 5 Template RF full proposal (step 2) DOCX document - 74.34 KB
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Annex 6 Template RI Expression of Interest (step 1) DOCX document - 64 KB
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Annex 7 Template RI full proposal (step 2) DOCX document - 84.69 KB
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Annex 8 Template budgetary tables XLSX document - 23.29 KB
Contact information
Contractual Research
FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
7th floor
1210 Brussels
02 524 90 92 (Ria Nouwen)
02 524 90 94 (Valérie Van Merris)
02 524 90 35 (Lena Vlaminck)
02 524 99 75 (Stephanie Laroy)
02 524 72 58 (Dominique Toussaint)
contractual.research@health.fgov.be
ria.nouwen@health.fgov.be
valerie.vanmerris@health.fgov.be
lena.vlaminck@health.fgov.be
stephanie.laroy@health.fgov.be
dominique.toussaint@health.fgov.be