# Postdoctoral Fellowships

**Source**: https://www.ugent.be/en/research/funding/national/vlaio/postdoctoralfellowships.htm
**Parent**: https://www.ugent.be/en/research/funding

VLAIO is a Flemish organisation stimulating and supporting **innovation and entrepreneurship**.

VLAIO Postdoctoral Fellowships focus on research with a **strong technology transfer component** and are available to researchers who intend to commercialise their research findings through valorisation agreements with industry or through the creation of a spin-off company.

## Timing

There are two deadlines: one in March, one in September. **\**

## Duration

- Spin-off mandate: max. 24 months
- Fase 1 - Fase 2 mandate: max. 12 months + 24 months
- Fase 2 mandate: max. 24 months

## Who can apply?

- Everyone with a PhD degree
- At least one industrial promoter from a Flemish company
- At least one scientific promoter from a Flemish university or other knowledge center

Researchers from outside Ghent University who wish to apply, first have to find a professor at Ghent University that will accept them as a candidate. You can look for a professor in your research domain through [our research directory](http://research.ugent.be "Research directory").

## How does it work?

Your application can be in English or in Dutch. The rest of the procedure will be in the **language** of your application.

1. Contact Ghent University for help with your **budget**. The only information we need is the number of years of work experience you have. \
   If you will be an employer of the company in Fase 2, they will make your budget.
2. Create an online application at the VLAIO website an **send the link to the online application to us ([vlaams-federaal@ugent.be](mailto:vlaams-federaal@ugent.be)).**
3. Add all the partners and fill in all the necessary information. **The last 2 steps of each form will have to be finalised by the legal representative of each partner. For UGent this is the rector.**
4. A signed **term sheet** or mutual cooperation agreement between Ghent University and the company must be submitted with VLAIO within 4 weeks after the application deadline. Contact our TechTransfer ([Karen.Cure@UGent.be](mailto:Karen.Cure@UGent.be)) office.
5. **Evaluation**. In May or November there will be an **oral defense**. You will have to expound your project and the economic value of the results to a jury of experts.

The granted projects are known at the end of July or December.

## How much funding is involved?

- Salary as a post-doc, depending on the Ghent University wage scales
- Consumables, calculated according to the cost model of VLAIO

## More information

- [www.vlaio.be (Innovation mandates)](https://www.vlaio.be/en/subsidies/innovation-mandates)
- [Information session VLAIO Innovation mandates](https://ugent.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=dc339fbb-5e3c-4ae0-8552-b3e100c58187)
- [Presentation VLAIO Innovation mandates](https://www.ugent.be/nl/onderzoek/financiering/nationaal/vlaio/innovatiemandaten/presentatie-innovatiemandaten.pdf)

## Contact

**Team Flemish, Federal & BOF Projects**

- [vlaams-federaal@ugent.be](mailto:vlaams-federaal@ugent.be)
- Fien Elderweirdt, 09 264 98 44 or [MS Teams](https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=fien.elderweirdt@ugent.be)
- Nina De Wilde, 09 264 32 74

**TechTransfer Office**

- Karen Curé, 09 264 99 64