ECCO Fellowships, Grants and Awards Programme
ECCO Fellowships, Grants and Awards are available to encourage early career IBD specialists from all disciplines in their journey, and to promote innovative scientific research in IBD in Europe.
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Available ECCO Fellowships, Grants and Awards
Deadline
For all Stage 1: April 30, 2026
For applicants invited to Stage 2: September 7, 2026
Purpose
Promotes 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
2
Duration of Funding
2 years
Application Documents
Deadline
For all Stage 1: September 7, 2026
For applicants invited to Stage 2: September 10, 2025
Purpose
Supports partnerships in ECCO Member counties and non-ECCO Member countries in low- or lower-middle income countries as defined by the World Bank.
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 as defined by the World Bank.
ECCO Membership
Required for the ECCO Member Countries
Prize
EUR 300,000
Number of awards available
1
Duration of funding
2 years
Application documents
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
Promotes innovative, scientific research in IBD in Europe.
Target audience
Early career basic and/or clinical scientists, who are not yet 40 years old or still in training. Open for all disciplines.
Place of research
In own institute
ECCO Membership
Required (applicant)
Prize
EUR 80,000
Number of awards available
15
Duration of funding
1 year
Application documents
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
Promotes 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. Open for all disciplines.
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
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
Enhances 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
Duration of funding
1 year
Application documents
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
Enhances the opportunity for Dietitians to be involved in international research projects across Europe.
Target audience
IBD Dietitians
Place of research
In own institute
ECCO Membership
Required
Prize
EUR 80,000
Number of awards available
1
Duration of funding
1 year
Application documents
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
Promotes 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
Mutlicentre collaboration
ECCO Membership
Required (applicant)
Prize
EUR 40,000
Number of awards available
1
Duration of funding
1 years
Application documents
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
Enables visits of European IBD Centres, learning of scientific techniques, clinical observership.
Target audience
Early career scientists, not yet 40 years old or still in training. Open for all disciplines
Place of research
Hosting institute outside one’s own country
ECCO Membership
Required (Both applicant & supervisor at hosting institute)
Prize
EUR 2,500
Number of awards available
4
Duration of funding
max. 3 months
Application documents
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
Enables 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 2,500
Number of awards available
1
Duration of funding
min. 3-5 days
Application documents
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
Enable visits of European IBD Centres, to observe and learn about diet and nutrition in IBD.
Target audience
IBD Dietitians
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 2,500
Number of awards available
1
Duration of funding
min. 2 weeks up to max. 3 months
Application documents
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
Offers European and Asian investigators exchange visits to IBD Centres in Asia or Europe, respectively, for advanced endoscopy training or clinical observership as an IBD Specialist.
Target audience
Early career scientists, not yet 40 years old or still in training. Open for all disciplines
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
Find an AOCC Centre Find a centre with the E-QUALITY project
Deadline
Call to be announced
Purpose
Supports clinical excellence in the investigation of utility of intestinal ultrasound used in the assessment of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Target audience
Applicants 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
Prize
EUR 40,000
Number of awards available
1
Duration of funding
1 year
Deadline
April 30, 2026
Purpose
The ECCO Young Researcher Award aims to recognise and promote young researchers who have demonstrated excellence in IBD-related research fields.
Target audience
Basic and clinical/translational scientists not yet 40 years old
Place of residence
Applicants from ECCO Member Countries only
Membership
ECCO Membership Required
Prize
EUR 5,000
Number of awards available
2
Duration of funding
min. 2 weeks up to max. 3 months
Application documents
Deadlines
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
Call open! Closing April 30.
ECCO-IBUS Grant
Call to be announced
Find your centre
In collaboration with our project E-QUALITY you can explore specific IBD specific centres across the world.
Past ECCO Fellowships, Grants & Travel Award winners
ECCO Fellowships and Grants can be supported by industry, including (optionally) setting a specific topic.
- Awarded at ECCO'25: ECCO Grant, N-ECCO Grant, D-ECCO Grant, IIS Registry Grant (supported by Bristol Myers Squibb)
- 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 – 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
ECCO Corporate Partners
Please contact the ECCO Office if you are interested in supporting an ECCO Fellowship or a Grant