VUB TechTransfer supports the following projects. Click on the project for all recent calls and more information.

Open calls

• LA Projects 2020
• UAB-IOF GEAR 2020
  download the flyer: pdf fileIOF_calls_2020.pdf (390 KB)
• SBO Projects 2020
  download the flyer: pdf fileSBO_call_2020.pdf (406 KB)
• Innovation Mandate
  download the flyer: pdf fileInnovation Mandate (646 KB)
• Baekeland Mandate
  download the flyer: pdf fileBaekeland Mandate (645 KB)

Other calls

• Applied Biomedical Programme (TBM - FWO) NEW DEADLINE: 14 APRIL 2020
• Proof of Concept projects (PoC-IOF)
• Strategic Research Centers (SOCs)
• TETRA Programs (VLAIO)
• VLAIO ICON calls Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity:
  Artificial Intelligence
  Proposed projects are expected to:
  • Either relate to the challenges identified in the research programme Artificial Intelligence (AI) Vlaanderen, and more specifically to:

  o    Data Science – hybrid, automated, trusted and actionable / help to make complex decisions;
  o    Real-time and energy-efficient AI / extract and process information at the edge;
  o    Multi-actor collaborative AI / interact autonomously with other decision-making entities; and/or;
  o    Human-like AI / communicate and collaborate seamlessly with humans.
  •    Or relate to other aspects of Artificial Intelligence, in which the definition of AI according to the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence plays a defining role as to what can be considered AI.
  
  Cybersecurity
  Proposed projects are expected to:
  •    Either relate to the long-term trajectories identified within the research component of the Vlaams Beleidsplan Cybersecurity, and more specifically to:
  o    Safe software and safe applications;
  o    Security services (in terms of critical security components to be integrated in applications and platforms);
  o    System and infrastructure security;
  o    Foundational components amongst which hardware, communication and cryptographic algorithms and protocols.
  •    Or relate to other aspects of Cybersecurity.

  Deadline for submissions for both calls is:
  -    21 April 2020 (noon): stage 1 of the submission (5-page abstract)
  -    7 July 2020 (noon): stage 2 of the submission (full proposal)
  If you are interested in the call, do not hesitate to contact Qing Cai and Anneke Geyzen for more information.