Projects

Project: Tour in South Africa by Youth Choir Waelrant and Show Choir Rise Up and participation in World Choir Games in South Africa Beneficiary: Koor & Stem Budget: 12.500 euros Duration: 2018 - 2019 Koor & Stem supports choirs and singers across Flanders. Youth Choir Waelrant and Show Choir Rise Up will tour through South Africa in 2018, performing in different cities. Both Youth Choir Waelrant and Show Choir Rise Up will promote Flanders as host for the 11th World Choir Games in 2020.

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: 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.