Pre-proposal : 12/05/2026
Dépôt sur E-space : 19/05/2026
Full-proposal : 18/11/2026
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M-ERA.NET Call 2026
Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS)
Sciences exactes et appliquées
The Call 2026 includes the following thematic areas:
Materials for energy storage and distribution systems:
The scope covers innovative materials, devices and systems that store and distribute any kind of energy (electrical, chemical, mechanical, thermal energy, among others).
Materials for energy conversion: This topic supports the development and deployment of advanced materials and processes that accelerate the energy transition across generation, conversion and mobility.
Innovative surfaces, coatings and interfaces: Surface and coating technologies are key enablers for new solutions across numerous industrial sectors worldwide.
Innovative functional materials with defined architectures: The scope of topic 4 covers the development of materials and material systems with defined architectures that provide specific properties and desired functionalities.
Materials addressing environmental challenges: The reduction of resources and waste and increased materials recyclability, in accordance with a sustainable development, is becoming a necessity related to decarbonization and circular economy.
Next generation materials for electronics: The topic supports proposals on materials research and its application, with special focus on specific properties for electronics.
Financement
Each partner is funded separately by the national/regional funding organisation they are applying to. They must fulfil the conditions of their funding organisation.
FRS-FNRS:
The maximum amount of requested funding per project is 300.000 EUR for a total period of thee years. If the project involves the recruitment of a PhD student, the project duration of the F.R.S.-FNRS sub-project could be up to four years.
Eligible costs items
Personnel costs: 80,000€ EUR per year on average for the duration of the project. The usual duration of ERA-NET research programmes is three years. However, when the project involves a PhD student, the principal investigator can apply for an additional one year funding in order to complete the four years PhD programme. Since this programme is NOT co-funded by the European Commission, this final year should be included in the budget submitted to this call.
Equipment: can be eligible up to 20% of the total budget of the project
Running costs: travel expenses; organisation of small scientific events in Belgium; consumables and the following support costs: consumables Publication Designing (conception d’ouvrage) Dictionary Production (réalisation de dictionnaire) Purchase of Books Encoding Software Access Rights Congress Registration Fees Purchase of Computer Scanning Travel costs Visa costs Open Access publication of an article up until 500 euros (see F.R.S-FNRS Open Access policy).
“Overhead”
For “overhead” costs:
Operating expenses: up to 1% within the granted budget. This percentage should be included in the requested operating budget.
Personnel: up to 2% outside of the granted budget. This percentage will be paid upon reimbursement of expenses to institutions by the F.R.S.-FNRS.
SPW-EER:
SPW Funding commitment: 1.000.000 € (for 3-4 projects).
Pour postuler
Transnational level
The M-ERA.NET application and evaluation process is implemented as a 2-step procedure: Pre-Proposal and Full-Proposal.
In both stages, the electronic submission (accessible via the M-ERA.NET homepage) has to be done on project level (by the coordinator) and on partner level (by each project partner) via M-ERA.NET submission tool until the respective submission deadline. In the M-ERA.NET submission tool information is requested on two levels:
National/regional level
FRS-FNRS
Applicants must provide basic administrative data by submitting an administrative application on e-space within 5 working days after the general deadline of the call to be eligible. Please select the “PINT-MULTI” funding instrument when creating the administrative application.
SPW-EER
Applicants for SPW funding must fill in an additional application form on ON TIME for the same deadline than that of the M-ERA.NET secretariat.
See SPW website for more information : Soutenir et améliorer la coordination des budgets régionaux et nationaux et les efforts de recherche - M-ERA.Net 3 (research and innovation on materials and battery technologies, supporting the European Green Deal) - MERANET
Deadlines
Deadline for short proposal submission is 12 May 2026, 12:00 noon CET.
Deadline for submission to FNRS is 19 May 2026, 14h CET.
Deadline for full proposal submission is 18 November 2026, 12:00 noon CET.
Requis d'admission
Eligibility of the consortia
General conditions for application
The duration of the (transnational collaborative) projects is maximum 36 months.
Funding is provided and granted by funding organisations participating in the Call 2026. Each project partners requesting funding has to apply individually for national/regional funding, and is subjected to the rules of the respective national/regional programme. This means that - depending on the respective national/regional funding rules - some project partners may have to submit additional proposals or information on national/regional level.
To obtain detailed information on the specific funding rules and programme priorities we strongly recommend contacting the respective national/regional funding organisations (contact details see Annex 3; first overview on the selected topics and provided funding; details on national / regional funding rules see Call 2026 website).
The total effort of one single applicant cannot exceed 60% of the total project efforts (measured in person months) in the proposal.
The total effort of applicants from one country cannot exceed 70% of the total project efforts (measured in person months) in the proposal.
Project consortia must consist of at least 3 partners (all requesting funding from a funding organisation listed in Annex 3) from at least 3 different countries (at least 2 EU member state or associated countries) participating in the M-ERA.NET Call.
Proposers (SMEs, large companies, academic research groups, universities, public research organisations or other research organisations) must be eligible for funding according to their national/regional regulations (to be checked with funding organisations listed in Annex 3). If one or more partner(s) responsible for more than 15% of the total project efforts (measured in persons month) is/are deemed ineligible, the project will not be invited for Pre- or Full-Proposal evaluation.
See more details in the call text.
National elgigibility conditions:
Eligibility for belgian partners (F.R.S. - FNRS)
Applicants requesting funding from F.R.S. FNRS must comply with the following rules.
The applicant must be affiliated to a university from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB).
At the closure of the call, the applicant should also:
- Be a permanent researcher of F.R.S-FNRS (Chercheur qualifié, maître de recherches ou Directeur de recherche) or;
- Hold a tenure track position (or an assimilated position including pending tenure track) with a research institution from the FWB
After the submission of applications, the F.R.S.-FNRS and the research institutions are required to verify the eligibility of the candidates. The F.R.S.-FNRS reserves the right to refuse those whose eligibility criteria would not comply with the Regulation. In order the check the compliance with these eligibility criteria, please contact your contact person at ULB-TTO (see details below). The complete F.R.S-FNRS rules for international research projects is available at the following link: https://www.frs-fnrs.be/docs/Reglement-et-documents/International/FRS-FNRS_PINT-Multi.pdf
SPW-EER:
For SPW applicant, at least one Walloon SME must be in the consortium.
Type of research eligible for funding: eligible TRL range 3 -6
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