National Fund for Scientific Research

The National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR) (Dutch: NFWO, French: FNRS) is a government institution in Belgium for supporting scientific research. Nowadays it has been split into two organizations, the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) in Flanders and the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) in the French-speaking community (Wallonia and Brussels-Capital Region).

The task of the FWO and FNRS is to stimulate the development of new knowledge in all scientific disciplines. The means to achieve this, is to finance excellent scientists and research projects after an inter-University competition and with an evaluation by foreign experts. The criterion for support is the scientific quality of the scientist and the research proposal, irrespective of scientific discipline.

History

The National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR) was founded on 2 June 1928 after a call by king Albert I of Belgium for more resources for scientific research. On 1 October 1927, in a speech at Cockerill in Seraing, King Albert I strongly emphasized the importance of scientific research to the economic development of Belgium. He repeated his appeal for more resources, on 26 November 1927, in a speech to the Academy. This led to the creation within the University Foundation of the National Fund for Scientific Research on 2 June 1928. The new institute was led by Emile Francqui.

The NFSR was the first Belgian organization to finance fundamental scientific research. Among the earliest projects funded were the stratosphere flights of professor Auguste Piccard. The FNRS-1 was a balloon that set a world altitude record. The NFSR also funded the FNRS-2, which was the first ever bathyscaphe built.

See also

• Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
• Science and technology in Belgium
• Science and technology in the Brussels-Capital Region
• Science and technology in Flanders
• Science and technology in Wallonia
• Belgian Interdisciplinary Platform for Industrial Biotechnology
• Institute for the promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT)
• Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences (BACAS)
• Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (VIB)
• Flemish institute for technological research (VITO)
• European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)
• Francqui Foundation
• Francqui Prize
• InBev-Baillet Latour Fund
• Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation

External links

• Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO)
• Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
• History
• Beyond Academic Science: Hoover and Francqui’s Legacy in Post-War Belgium (MS Word)

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