Revenue by source

2019-2020

Of all the Federal Scientific Institutes, BIRA-IASB has the highest proportion of its budget coming from external competitive projects (63%). These are projects funded by organisations such as:

  • ESA
  • EUMETSAT
  • the European Commission
  • (to a lesser extent) national research funds

With a contribution of 42% and 28% of external project funding respectively, ESA and PRODEX (ESA) are the most important sources of income for the institute, followed by the EU funding (essentially H2020) with 19%.

Ongoing projects by source of funding
  2018 2019 2020
Dotation      
STCE      
ESA 27 28 32
FNRS & FWO 4 4

3

PRODEX 11 9 11
Commercial income      
Federal subvention 21 22 16
EU 13 7 10
Eumetsat 2 2 2
ECMWF 6 6 5

Since 2018, the personnel envelope is part of the overall dotation.

Charts

2020

2019

2018

 

All statistics in this activity report are calculated on 31 December of the year concerned.