Launch 2023 Industrial Fellowships Call

The calls for the FNR’s programmes ATTRACT and PEARL will launch in late July 2026. Pre-proposal for both programmes is 17 November 2026, full proposal deadline is 16 February 2027.

The FNR is pleased to communicate that 17 projects have been selected for funding in the 2026 RESCOM Call, an FNR commitment of 390,500 EUR. Through RESCOM, the FNR supports communication between researchers to promote scientific outcomes. Of the retained proposals, 9 are International Scientific Conferences and 8 are Lecture Series.

The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) today publishes its Annual Report 2025. Alongside the year’s funding figures, the report features twenty-five first-person accounts from researchers based in Luxembourg, looking back at how successive FNR grants, often awarded years apart and across different programmes, shaped the work they have been able to do.

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Sense about Science has published a new guide setting out how citizens and researchers want their MEPs to use and evaluate evidence when making policy decisions, in partnership with Research Ireland and the FNR.

Dr Ronald de Vries has been awarded a prestigious FNR PEARL Chair, further cementing the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) as a leading force in environmental and industrial biotechnologies. Dr de Vries, an internationally recognised fungal biotechnologist, joins LIST where he will lead the newly established Fungal Biotechnology research group within the Environmental … Continued

The FNR is pleased to announce that two young promising researchers from Luxembourg are among the 600 young scientists selected by the Lindau Selection Committee to attend the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The 2026 Meeting, dedicated to interdisciplinarity, takes place from 28 June – 3 July in Lindau, Germany.

Following a first successful pilot call in 2024, NRF, the National Research Foundation of the Republic of Korea and FNR are launching a new call for projects. Deadline for proposals is 12 May 2026 (at NRF) and 13 May 2026 (at FNR).

The FNR is pleased to communicate that 3 of 6 full proposals and 7 of 10 SEEDLING projects have been retained for funding in the 2025-1 LuxAid BRIDGES Call. LuxAid BRIDGES is a joint call between the FNR, the Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MFEA) and the Luxembourg Development Cooperation Agency LuxDev.

Did you have a JUMP project accepted in 2025? Join ‘JUMP IN’, a JUMP Initiation and Networking event that serves as a forum for those whose JUMP projects recently accepted for funding. Meet fellow JUMP grantees and listen to some of inspiring stories! The event takes place on 24 March 2026 at the University of Luxembourg Incubator.