Fellowships and Grants
Call for ECCO Fellowships, Grants and Travel Awards
ECCO Fellowships, Grants and Travel Awards are available to encourage young physicians in their career and to promote innovative scientific research in IBD in Europe.
Overview of available ECCO Awards to be awarded at the ECCO'25 Congress:
ECCO Pioneer Award
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Promote visionary, innovative, and inter-disciplinary research projects in the field of IBD
Target audience: Basic and/or clinical scientists
Place of research: In own institute (single centre) or as a collaboration (multicentre)
ECCO Membership: Required
Prize: EUR 300,000
Number of awards available: 1
Duration of funding: 2 years
Application documents:
ECCO Global Grant
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Supports partnerships in ECCO Member counties and non-ECCO Member countries in low- or lower-middle income countries
Target audience: Basic and/or clinical scientists
Place of research: Multicentre with at least one center in an ECCO Member country and at least one center from a low or lower-middle income country
ECCO Membership: Required for the ECCO Member countries
Prize: EUR 300,000
Number of awards available: 1
Duration of funding: 2 years
Application documents:
ECCO Grant
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Promote innovative, scientific research in Europe
Target audience: Early career basic and/or clinical scientists, who are not yet 40 years old or still in training
Place of research: In own institute
ECCO Membership: Required (applicant)
Prize: EUR 80,000
Number of awards available: 10
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) supported grant: 1 for basic science research
Duration of funding: 1 year
Application documents:
ECCO Fellowship
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Promote innovative scientific research and knowledge exchange in IBD in Europe
Target audience: Early career scientists who are not yet 40 years old or still in training
Place of research: Hosting institute outside one’s own country
ECCO Membership: Required
Prize: EUR 60,000
Number of awards available: 2
Duration of funding: 1 year
Application documents:
IIS Registry Grant
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Promote innovative scientific research in IBD in Europe with a focus on research projects using a registry tool
Target audience: Basic and/or clinical scientists
Place of research: Mutlicentric - collaboration
ECCO Membership: Required (applicant)
Prize: EUR 40,000
Number of awards available: 2
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) supported grant: 1
Duration of funding: 3 years
Application documents:
N-ECCO Research Grant
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Enhance the opportunity for IBD Nurses to be involved in international research projects across Europe
Target audience: IBD Nurses
Place of research: In own institute
ECCO Membership: Required
Prize: EUR 80,000
Number of awards available: 1
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) supported grant: 1
Duration of funding: 1 year
Application documents:
N-ECCO Research Grant Fact Sheet
D-ECCO Research Grant
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Enhance the opportunity for Dietitians to be involved in international research projects across Europe
Target audience: Dietitians
Place of research: In own institute
ECCO Membership: Required
Prize: EUR 80,000
Number of awards available: 1
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) supported grant: 1
Duration of funding: 1 year
Application documents:
D-ECCO Research Grant Fact Sheet
ECCO-IBUS Intestinal Ultrasound Research Grant
Deadline: November 30, 2024
Purpose: Support clinical excellence in the investigation of utility of intestinal ultrasound used in the assessment of patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Target audience: Candidates should be established within clinical units with expertise in inflammatory bowel disease, with established expertise in performance of intestinal ultrasound with routine access to an ultrasound machine
Place of research: In own institute
IBUS Membership: Required
NEW GRANT INCREASE to EUR 40,000
Number of awards available: 1
Duration of funding: 1 year
ECCO-AOCC Visiting Travel Grant
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Offering European and Asian investigators exchange visits to IBD Centres in Asia or Europe, respectively
Target audience: Early career basic and/or clinical scientists, who are not yet 40 years old or still in training
Place of research: Hosting institute outside one’s own country
ECCO Membership: ECCO-AOCC Visiting Travel Grant applicants and their hosts need to be ECCO or AOCC Members respectively (at the time of application)
Prize: EUR 10,000
Number of awards available: 2
Duration of funding: max. 3 months
Application documents:
ECCO-AOCC Visiting Travel Grant Fact Sheet
ECCO Travel Award
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Enable visits of European IBD Centres, learning of scientific techniques, clinical observership
Target audience: Early career basic and/or clinical scientists, who are not yet 40 years old or still in training
Place of research: Hosting institute outside one’s own country
ECCO Membership: Required (Both applicant & supervisor at hosting institute)
Prize: EUR 1,500
Number of awards available: 4
Duration of funding: max. 3 months
Application documents:
N-ECCO Travel Award
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Enable visits of European IBD Centres, learning from IBD nursing services
Target audience: IBD Nurses
Place of research: Hosting institute outside one’s own country OR in own country
ECCO Membership: Required (Both applicant & supervisor at hosting institute)
Prize: EUR 1,500
Number of awards available: 1
Duration of funding: min. 3-5 days
Application documents:
N-ECCO Travel Award Fact Sheet
D-ECCO Travel Award
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Purpose: Enable visits of European IBD Centres, to observe and learn about diet and nutrition in IBD
Target audience: Dietitians in IBD
Place of research: Hosting institute outside one’s own country OR in own country
ECCO Membership: Required (Both applicant & supervisor at hosting institute)
Prize: EUR 1,500
Number of awards available: 1
Duration of funding: min. 2 weeks up to max. 3 months
Application documents:
D-ECCO Travel Award Fact Sheet
ECCO Fellowships and Grants can be supported by industry, including (optionally) setting a specific topic.
ECCO offers sincere gratitude for the support of the following Fellowships and Grants:
Awarded at ECCO'24: ECCO Grant, N-ECCO Grant, D-ECCO Grant, IIS Registry Grant (supported by Bristol Myers Squibb)
Awarded at ECCO'23: ECCO Grant (supported by Bristol Myers Squibb)
Awarded at ECCO'21: ECCO Multi-Year Research Grant (supported by Pfizer) – with a focus on JAK inhibitors
Awarded at ECCO'21: ECCO Research Award (supported by Pfizer) – with a focus on retrospective observational research projects using a registry tool
Awarded at ECCO’19: ECCO-Pfizer Research Grant on Predictors of response to JAK inhibitors
Awarded at ECCO’19: ECCO-Pfizer Research Award – with a focus on retrospective observational research projects using a registry tool
Awarded at ECCO'17: ECCO-Vifor Pharma Grant - with a special focus on iron deficiency
Awarded at ECCO'16: ECCO-Nestlé Health Science Nutrition Fellowship - with a special focus on the role of food and nutrition in the etiology and management of IBD.
Awarded at ECCO'14: ECCO-DigestScience Research Funding - funding for scientific research in the area of ”Intestinal Fibrosis”
Awarded at ECCO'14: Cosmopharma-funded ECCO Fellowship
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Past ECCO Fellowships, Grants & Travel Award winners
List of ECCO Award Winners 2008-2025