Projects

Project: the joint project "Slovak Soil in Flemish Art": Tracing trade and technology of two leading regions in the Renaissance   Beneficiary: the University of Antwerp Budget: 24.000 euros Periode: 2018 The purpose of the project is to find evidence of the technological connection between the Renaissance painters of the Antwerp School and Slovak’s leading mining industry.  At the beginning of the 16th century, the mining industry in Slovakia started producing a series of innovative copper pigments that instantly found its way to Flemish artists, thanks to Antwerp’s role as central Europe

Project: digital disclosure of 'the Seasons', series of paintings of Pieter Bruegel  the Elder Beneficiary : Kunsthistorisch Museum Vienna Amount: 55 000 euro Duration: January 2020 - October 2021 Based on the succesful retrospective exhibition 'Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Once in a lifetime' in 2019, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (KHM) has, with financial support from the Flemish government, developed an instrument to digitally collect and analyze Bruegel's works and make it accessible to a wide audience (insidebruegel.net). The huge success of this exhibition and website led to the

Project: Offering technical support to Marine World Heritage sites with special attention for capacity building and collaboration between African sites. Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: 149.330 USD Duration: 2019 – 2020 Dit project zorgt voor een verdere ondersteuning van Unesco’ programma voor de bescherming van marien Werelderfgoed, dat wordt geleid door de Vlaamse Fanny Douvere. Het specifieke doel van dit project is om de samenwerking tussen Afrikaanse mariene sites te bevorderen om zo ook hun capaciteiten te versterken, en om technische ondersteuning te bieden aan mariene sites.

Project: Organisation of a training in Mozambique for the capacity building in Africa on underwater cultural heritage Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: 92.650 USD Duration: 2019 – 2020 This project aims to improve the protection and management of maritime and underwater cultural heritage in the African countries, within the framework of the principles and standards of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. A regional training course is planned on legal protection and practical management of underwater cultural heritage.

Project: Operating grant Beneficiary: PEN Vlaanderen Budget: 4.082,20 euros Period: 2019 PEN Vlaanderen actively defends fellow-writers around the world, both through direct and indirect support.  PEN Flanders uses culture as a carrier of values in the international relations of Flanders and the European Union. Cultural diplomacy, based on a framework that integrates values, can help steer the process towards more democracy.

Project: Operating grant Beneficiary: Centrum voor Mexicaanse Studiën (CMS) Budget: 75.000 euros Period: 2019 The interfacultary Centre for Mexican Studies (CMS) at the University of Antwerp is a study and documentation center that was established in 1990. The CMS is the result of a bilateral agreement between the Mexican government and the Flemish Community.

Project: Operating grant Beneficiary: De Vlaamse Universiteiten en Hogescholen Raad (VLUHR) Budget: 100.000 euros Period: 2019 With this grant, the Department of Foreign Affairs aims to achieve the objectives of academic diplomacy by continuing to actively promote higher education and research in Flanders by convincing foreign students, researchers and policymakers of its quality. The participation of knowledge institutions in ministerial missions is an important instrument for this purpose.

Project: 10 partial sholarships for academic year 2019 - 2020 C-MAT Beneficiary: Centre for Maritime and Air Transport Management Budget: 110.000 euros Period: 2019 - 2020 At the beginning of 1996, the Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp (ITMMA) was established as an autonomous institute within the structures of the University of Antwerp.

Project: Curriculum ‘The Volunteers: Americans join World War One, 1914-1919’ Beneficiary: AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc  Amount: 30.000 USD Duration: 2014 - 2016 The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I, 1914-1919 Curriculum was launched on March 2 at an event hosted by the Flanders House in New York City and online at thevolunteers.afs.org. The event featured keynote speaker Sophie De Schaepdrijver, a distinguished Belgian historian, Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and recipient of the Order of the Crown (Belgium).

Project: 10 partial scholarships for academic year 2017-2018 C-MAT Beneficiary: Centre for Maritime and Air Transport Management Budget: 110.000 euro Duration: January 2017 - December 2017 C-MAT, the Centre for Maritime & Air Transport Management at the University of Antwerp is one of the world's premier suppliers of highly specialised academic as well as practice-based education and research in transport economics. The main objective of the C-MAT programme is to help executive staff members from transport-related companies and organisations (shipping companies, port authorities, term

Project: partial sholarships for academic year 2018 2019 C-MAT Beneficiary: Centre for Maritime and Air Transport Management Budget: 110.000 euros Period: 2018-2019 At the beginning of 1996, the Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp (ITMMA) was established as an autonomous institute within the structures of the University of Antwerp. The institute specializes in transport, maritime economy and logistics management. Since the academic year 2015-2016, ITMMA has undergone a name change and the curriculum has been renewed.

Project: Co-financing the UGent Chair “South Africa: Languages, Literatures, Culture and Society” Beneficiary: Ghent University Budget: 21.000 euro Duration: 2018 This Chair is the first Chair ever to be established at the UGent Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. The first chair holder, prof. Hein Willemse from the University of Pretoria, gave his inaugural speech in 2017, in the presence of the subsidiaries who made this Chair possible – including a representative of the Flemish Government, the vice-rector of Ghent University and representatives of the South Africa Foundation in Amsterdam.

Project:  Strengthening human rights, citizenship, intercultural and other standards in the curriculum of public education in Iraqi Kurdistan Beneficiary: Human Rights Office (OHCHR/UNAMI HRO) Amount: 114.017 euro Duration: 2016 Minister-president Bourgeois decided during his official visit to Iraqi Kurdistan in April 2016 to support the project "Human Rights Education in Schools". The goal of this project is to strengthen human rights, citizenship, intercultural and other standards in the curriculum of public education in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Project: The Fire of Leuven. Chronicle of a War Crime. Beneficiary: Fonk vzw Amount: 7.000 euros Duration: December 2013 - August 2014 In late August 1914, Leuven fell victim to blind war rage. Virtually the entire city centre was systematically destroyed by the German occupying forces.

Project: Learning for Peace  Beneficiary: Flanders Peace Field vzw  Amount: 20.000 euro Duration: December 2013 - December 2014 Flanders Peace Field organization wants to set up a educational project to guide young people towards peace education, community building, empowerment and critical citizenship through the story of the Christmas ceasefires and football.  The history of WWI and its Christmas ceasefires, like the football story, is a way to make young people reflect on conflicts of today, about living together, about tolerance and diversity, on fair play on and off the football fiel

Project: organization of academic summit between the EU and the CELAC countries Beneficiary: vzw Local Organizing Committee Amount: 20.000 euro Duration: 2015 Grant to the non-profit Local Organizing Committee in charge of organizing an academic summit between the EU and the countries CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos Caribeños y).