1. Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by
Science and Technology in Flanders
IWT Baekeland Programme
May 12, 2009
Carine Lucas

2. Content
Baekeland-programme
General principles IWT-funding programmes
Support for (post)-doctoral training:
- PhD scholarships
- Post-Doc
- NEW! Baekeland programme
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3. General principles IWT-funding programmes
Baekeland-programme
• Open calls for direct support R&D and post-doc
fellowships
• Closed calls with priority ranking for other
programmes (collective, strategic, scholarships,
translational..)
• No thematic priorities
• Bottom up
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4. Pre- and post doctoral positions
Baekeland-programme
Pre-doctoral grants:
- Granted for 2 years + 2 years
- 200/year (one call)
- In the past: limited to master degrees in -sciences; from
september 2009 open for all master degrees, but only for
projects with a strategic (economical) objective
Post-doctoral fellowships:
- in cooperation with an industrial promotor
• type 1: creation of a Spin-off
• type 2: transfer of research from the research
institute to the industry
• type 3: valorisation within the research
institute
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5. Industrial R&D-projects
Baekeland-programme
- Submitted by companies
- Research and development projects
- Mainly focused on short and mid-term developments
- Project duration = maximum 3 years
- Often in collaboration with universities and research
institutes
- In some cases coupled with a PhD-project, but is not
trivial
- IP-rights for the company
- In case of success, a minimum of added value for
Flanders has to be guaranteed
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6. University-Industry Collaborations
Baekeland-programme
Univ and Ind as Partners for research activity,
Human Resources training and entrepreneurship
Baekeland
COLLABORATION TIME FRAME
Shorter term Longer term
Delimited
contracts
for a specific
project
University as a supplier of knowledge
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7. Doctoral programme in collaboration with industry:
what is different?
Baekeland-programme
• Exposure to the private environment and acquire
an insight of non-academic organisations
• Facing “real life” research problems
• Joint supervision by professionals from industry
• Broaden employability perspectives
• Enable networking outside academic environment
• Access to additional industry training and meetings
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8. Baekeland programme
Baekeland-programme
• The Baekeland-programme offers young researchers
the opportunity to obtain a PhD-degree in close
cooperation with the industry
• The programme offers employees within companies
the opportunity to obtain a PhD-degree without
leaving the company
• IWT provides a subsidy for the individual personnel
costs, and the working costs associated with the
project
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9. Basic principles
Baekeland-programme
• Flemish company
Strategic orientation of the project
Co-funding
• Flemish university
Guidance/support towards a PhD-thesis and the
assignment of a PhD degree according to the normal
quality standards
Other research institutes can be the host institute as
far as they cooperate with a promotor at a university
• Doctoral candidate
employee university/research institute or employee of
the company
mobility: execution within the company as well as
within the university/research institute
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10. Content
Baekeland-programme
• The research has, in case of success, a clear
economic objective and offers an added value for
the company
• The research is directed towards a PhD and fulfills
the current criteria for doctoral research.
In order to be qualified, a project proposal within the
Baekeland programme requires a scientific challenge
and a formulation of a problem that offers the
researcher the opportunity to qualify himself
intellectually and to grow/to develop to be a skilled
researcher.
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11. Applicant
Baekeland-programme
• Company:
All companies with an exploitation office in Flanders
A minimum added value for Flanders is important
and an evaluation criterion
• Candidate:
All candidates who are allowed to the doctoral study
at a Flemish university
No additional constraints: the Baekeland programme
is open for all nationalities and all master degrees.
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12. Participants
Baekeland-programme
• Five participants
1. the company
2. the university or research institute
3. the candidate
4. the scientific promotor allied with a university
5. IWT
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13. Duration
Baekeland-programme
• In principal 4 years, mid-term evaluation after 24
months
• Part-time occupation is possible ( 0,5 FTE), as long
as the PhD-thesis can be obtained part of the
assessment
• In case of part-time occupation project duration
extended total support = 4 full-time person years
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14. IP-aspects
Baekeland-programme
• Support of 50%, 60% (SME) or 70% (SE)
• Consortium agreement: IP-issues
- IP for the company (with a free, non-exclusive, non-transferrable
right on the project results for education and further research)
- IP for the university or research institute (with a non-
exclusive, non-sublicensing free
license for the exploitation of the project results for the company)
- IP 50/50 common proprietary for the company/
university or research institute
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15. Applications 1st call
Baekeland-programme
• 32 applications, by 26 different companies
• 1 application inadmissable (Brussels region)
Applying company Number
Already known to IWT as applicant: big companies 8
Already known to IWT as applicant: S(M)E 9
New applicants 8
Candidates Number
Already working at the company 13
Candidate now working at university/college, but 11
will be hired (part-time) by company
Employee of university 7
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16. Universities/research institutes
Baekeland-programme
University Number
KULeuven 17
UGent 8
UA 4
UHasselt 3
• In 4 projects cooperation with a university college; in 1
project with a foreign university
• 4 projects from the Faculty of Economics
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17. Calls
Baekeland-programme
2 calls in 2009
- March 16th
- September 4th
Documents available at www.iwt.be
Questions?
- mail to baekeland@iwt.be
- contact Veerle Cauwenberg, programme coordinator
02/209.29.12
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18. Institute for the Promotion of Innovation
by Science and Technology in Flanders
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B-1000 Brussel
Tel.: +32 (0)2 209 09 00
Fax.: +32 (0)2 223 11 81
E-mail: info@iwt.be
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