International

ULB researchers take part in various international programmes, as coordinators or partners in research projects or as experts. 

These programmes are in addition to those of the European Commission.

 

European Space Agency (ESA)

Official website of ESA

Ongoing projects: 

Lieven Clarisse Sciences	FORUM L2: Minutes of Forum L2 Spectral Fluxes (L2-SF) Breadboard Processor (2024-2025) GMVAD World-Emission (2022-2024) DINAR (2022-2024)
Sébastien Clesse Sciences	BESE: Belgium Euclid Science Exploitation (2024-2026)
Pierre-François Coheur Sciences	HIRS2 (2024-2026) EVAPORATION (2024-2025) LOLIPOP: CCI+ OTHER LONG-LIVED GREENHOUSE GASES ECV (2023-2025) Ozone CCI+ (2019-2024)
Pierre Colinet Polytechnique	EVAPORATION (2024-2025) OSIP Electrolysis (2023-2025)
Pierre Gaspard Sciences	Crystallo: Influence of mass transport and surface growth processes on protein crystal perfection (2021-2024)
Patrick Hendrick Polytechnique	HYGUANE: Development & Qualification of a H2 electricity generator and its related test benches (2023-2026)
Carlo Iorio Polytechnique	Evaporation (2022-2025) 3DBio (2023-2025) Heat Transfer (2024-2025) OSIP: In Space demonstration of 3D bio-printed vascularisation techniques/Passive Protective Shields (2021-2025)
Alain Jorissen Sciences	GAIA: Gaia mission Belgian consolidation (2023-2025)
Benoît Scheid Polytechnique	TAMTAM (2023-2024)
Karine Van Doninck Sciences	Rise II: Bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga: a new eukaryotic extremophile model organism to study the impact of radiation and micro-gravity on biological processes (2024-2025)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Official website of NIH

Ongoing projects: 

Decio Eirizik Médecine	Implications of Changes in Islet Exosomal Cargo in Type 1 Diabetes (2022-2026) Generation of new anti-FXYD2a probes and preclinical validation for human beta cell imaging (2022-2025) The rector and visitors of the University of Virginia (2022-2025)
Arnaud Marchant Médecine	MADI: Maternal determinants of infant immunity (2019-2026)
Carine Truyens Médecine	Development of Improved Serological Diagnostic and Parasite Genotyping Tools for Congeni (2022-2025)
Carine Van Lint Médecine	Erase-HIV (2022-2025)

Foundations

Ongoing projects:

Jean-Paul Belgrado Sciences de la Motricité humaine	Lipedema  "Batolisa" (2022-2025)
Axel Cleeremans Psychologie	Templeton World Charity  "HOTTEST": Empirical tests of higher-order therories of consciousness (2023-2026)
Miriam Cnop Médecine	Helmsley Charitable Trust  "Studying the selective β cell sensitivity to a homozygous PD-L1 mutation in neonatal diabetes" (2024-2025)
Decio Eizirik Médecine	Helmsley Charitable Trust  "Generation of new anti-FXYD2γa probes and preclinical validation for human beta cell imaging" (2022-2025) Breaththrough T1D (anciennement JDRF) "Benaroya" (2024-2026) "LRH-1/NR5A2-mediated immune coupled islet remodelling: A wound healing disease modifying therapeutic approach for type 1 diabetes mellitus" (2023-2025) "The central role for NLRC5 in the dialog between β-cells and the immune system in type 1 diabetes" (2022-2025)
Cédric Govaerts Sciences	Cystic Fibrosis "The CFTR Folding and Function SRC" (2021-2025)
Esteban Gurzov Médecine	Breaththrough T1D (anciennement JDRF) "Oxidative stress-induced dysregulation of protein tyrosine phosphatases contributes to beta cell demise in type 1 diabetes" (2019-2025)  "Smart Islets" (2024-2026) EFSD "Inhibition of receptor protein tyrosine phosphatases provides a novel strategy for the treatment of diabetes" (2024-2026)
Mariana Igoillo-Esteve Médecine	FFRD "Étude de l’impact de la fragmentation des ARNt et la diminution en la méthylation m6A induite par une carence en TRMT10A sur pathogenèse du diabète de type 1" (2021-2025) EFSD  "Impact de la fragmentation des ARNt" (2022-2025)
Ognyan Oreshkov Polytechnique	John Templeton "QISS 2" (2022-2025)
David Zarka Sciences de la Motricité humaine	Mind & Life Europe Impact of mindfulness on sensorimotor control and learning: does meditation practice improve the integration of proprioceptive information? (2024-2027)

Others

Ongoing projects: 

Manon Bayat Sciences	Antarctic Science Bursaries (2024-2025)
Fabienne Chetail Psychologie, Sciences de l’Education et Logopédie	DFG Klinikum Munchen (2023-2026)
Stéphane Clemmen Sciences	BeQnNet (2022-2026)
Miriam Cnop Médecine	BeCoop (2024-2026)
Jean-Louis Deneubourg Sciences	ESCAPE (2022-2028)
David Domingo Lettres, Traduction et Communication	MCDA 4: Media Councils in the Digital Age (2023-2025)
Denis Fournier Sciences	Forest Research (2024-2026)
François Fripiat Sciences	Trapped in ice (2024-2027)
Marius Gilbert Médecine	USAID Stop Spillover Project (2021-2025)
Cédric Govaerts Sciences	The CFTR Folding and Function SRC (2021-2025)
Jean-Claude Grégoire Sciences	Forest Research (2024-2026)
Olivier Hardy Sciences	Key Biodiveresity Areas-Establishing a blueprint for 30x30 (2023-2025)
Arnaud Marchant Médecine	MUSICC (2024-2029)
Frank Pattyn Sciences	HIRISE (2020-2025) Dome Fuji NFR (2021-2026)
Julien Pieret Droit et criminologie	LEXIS (2024-2029)
Nicolo Pini Philosophie et Sciences sociales	Living in Late Antique rural Sicily, between Byzantium and Islam: Archaeological investigations at Terravecchia di Caltavuturo (Palermo, Italy) (2024-2025)
Bram Vanhoutte Santé publique	ESRC (2011-2025)

You are a researcher at ULB and would like to learn more about European and global programmes for research funding? Please contact the "Europe research unit"  of the Research Department:

ulb-europe@ulb.be