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The FWO supports fundamental and strategic scientific research, stimulates international cooperation and promotes equal opportunity.

The FWO funds excellent and promising researchers as well as research projects, and national and international research infrastructures, following an inter-university competition.
The evaluation is carried out by national and international experts. The selection follows the bottom-up principle and is conducted on an inter-university basis.

The FWO stimulates international cooperation and encourages international mobility by giving researchers the opportunity to gain experience or work as members of international research groups or by attracting researchers from abroad.

The sole criterion is the outstanding quality of researcher and research proposal, and this in every scientific field.