Background
For 90 years, the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS has been contributing to the development of basic research in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation through its policy of encouraging scientific excellence and supporting researchers.

With its new strategic PHARE II refinancing plan , the FRS-FNRS wishes to meet the challenges related to the evolution of research policies at the international level and to help researchers from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation to become part of the European Research Area . This plan is part of a national and international context very favorable to research. The European Horizon 2020 program thus demonstrates an understanding of the essential role of research as a driver for the production of new knowledge and the primary link in the innovation process.

It is part of a national and international context very favorable to research, but also in a dynamics of evolution of the FRS-FNRS, which has the will to evolve its structures and to develop its strategic projects at the service of researchers and researchers. research, building on its values ​​of Creativity, Excellence, and Transparency.

Mission
The Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS's mission is to develop basic scientific research in the framework of initiatives presented by researchers. It promotes the production and development of knowledge by supporting, on the one hand, individual researchers and by financing, on the other hand, research programs pursued in laboratories and services located mainly in the universities of the Federation. Wallonia-Brussels.

Based on the sole criterion of scientific excellence, the financial support of the FRS-FNRS is exercised in several ways:

- temporary or permanent remuneration of individual researchers
- funding of research teams
- participation in international networks and programs
- allocation of scholarships and credits favoring scientific exchanges
- awarding of scientific prizes