Projects

Project: Participation of Flemish ensembles performing at the FeMAP festival 2019 in Catalonia Beneficiary: Kunstenpunt Budget: 70.000 euros Period: 2019 Pyrenees Early Musical Festival (  FeMAP ) invites Flanders as host for its edition of 2019. Flanders wants to play a connecting role with Catalonia in order to further stimulate and anchor the existing cooperation. That is why both partners have decided to spread the cooperation with Flanders over the festival editions of 2019 and 2020.

Project: Composites in Design - co-production with creative collective Envisions Beneficiary: Design Museum Gent Budget: 50.000 euros Period: 26.10.2018 - 21.04.2019 The exhibition is an international co-production with creative collective Envisions. Composites in Design brings together an extensive selection of design projects working with composite material. This international co-production opens up opportunities to promote the exhibition internationally at several important trade fairs.

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: the performance of dance company Shell Shock in Paris  Beneficiary: Eastman  Budget: 25.000 euros Period: 2018 - 2019 On the 10th and 11th of November 2018, Eastman Dance Company (choreographer Sidi Larbi Cheraoui) will perform in Paris as part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the WOI Armistice. The performances of Shell Shock in Paris offer a good opportunity for Flanders to be present at the closing event of the French President Macron in the context of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Great War.

Project: Visitor programme of South African and Zimbabwean curators in Flanders and the Netherlands Beneficiary Kunstenpunt Budget: 5.900 euro Duration: 2019 Kunstensteunpunt and the Mondriaan Fund are taking part in an orientation trip to South Africa from 2 to 16 September 2018. The trip will be organised by the Mondriaan Fund for professional curators in the contemporary visual arts.

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: Flanders ukudansa eMzansi in South-Africa (Oudtshoorn, Cape Town and Johannesburg)  Beneficiary: les ballets C de la B Budget: 189.000 euros Period: 2019 With this project, three well-established Flemish dance companies want to present a series of prominent productions in South Africa (Oudtshoorn, Cape Town and Johannesburg) in 2019. It concerns the production 'Rule of Three' by Jan Martens, the boxing project '(B)' by Koen Augustijnen and 'Requiem pour L.'.

Project: Exhibition What Could Have Been Beneficiary: Flanders Architecture Institute Amount: 13.500 euro Duration: 2018 - 2019 In 2019, the Flemish Architecture Institute plans to continue and deepen the exhibition Maatwerk Massaarbeit Architecktur aus Flandern un den Niederlanden.

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: Exhibition 'Stigma and psychiatry' in Japan Beneficiary: Museum Dr Guislain Amount: 90.000 euro Duration: 2019 - 2020 This Flemish-Dutch project offers the possibility to indirectly address a social problem (stigmatisation of mentally ill people) with a cultural project. This is a social problem of which the Japanese health care system is very aware, but for which one is looking towards Western Europe to make this theme a subject of discussion. Europe and Flanders have already coma a long way in making mental illness a subject of discussion.

project: a Flemish programme for the RomaEurope Festival for contemporary arts in Rome in 2019 Beneficiary: Fondazione RomaEurope (Rome) Budget: 80.000 euro Duration: 2019 (the festival takes place from September till november 2019) The RomaEurope Festival is a prestigious and multidisciplinary arts festival that takes place in Rome. The program consists of contemporary dance, theater, visual arts and music.

Project: Exhibition 'The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus and Jan Vos' in the Frick Collection in New York Beneficiary: The Frick Collection Budget: 25.000 euro Duration: 2018 - 2019 From 18 September 2018 to 13 January 2019, the exhibition 'The Charter House of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus and Jan Vos' will be held in the Frick Collection in New York. With this exhibition two exceptional paintings will be reunited for the first time in 20 years, namely 'The Holy Virgin the Carthusian' by Jan van Eyck and 'the Exeter - Madonna' by Petrus Christus.

Project: operations of the Al Kamandjâti music school, Ramallah  Beneficiary: Al Kamandjâti music school Budget: 30.000 euro Duration: 2018 Al Kamandjâti (AK) has established music schools in numerous locations in Palestine and Lebanon that service approximately 500 children, providing music instruction in strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, guitar, oriental and occidental percussion, oud, nay, voice, music appreciation, ensemble playing and music theory. Instruments are provided for the children at no cost, allowing those without means to pursue their musical dreams. 

Project: Continuation of the cooperation with  A.M. Qattan Foundation after the end of the festival Under Construction: Flemish Palestinian Connection Beneficiary: Connexion vzw Budget: 35.000 euro Period: 2018 Connexion and A.M. Qattan Foundation had the ambition to bridge the distance between Flanders and Palestine by bringing together artists and stimulating exchange and cooperation through the Flanders Under Construction Festival. An initial evaluation of the Under Construction Festival shows that the project successfully applies to collaboration and co-production.

project: Showcase event in VS  of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Beneficiary: Kunsthuis vzw Budget: 71.130 euro Period: one time event in 2019 (the exacte date is to be confirmed) In 2014, Opera Flanders and Ballet Flanders merged into Opera Ballet Flanders.

Project:  Contributions to the Special Account for support to countries in post-conflict and post-disaster situations: crisis response in Nepal Beneficiary: UNESCO Amount: 25.000 USD Duration: 2015 With this contribution Flanders supports UNESCO's emergency actions in the aftermath of the major earthquakes on 25 April and 12 May 2015 in Nepal. These earthquakes caused great damage in the Kathmandu Valley, a World Heritage site known for its unique temples, stupas and historic houses.

Project: International Scientific Conference: Culture in Armed Conflict Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: 170.000 USD Duration: 2016 The international conference 'Culture in Armed Conflict' focuses primarily on the role culture plays in armed conflicts and how it affects human rights and security.

Project: Bringing together the international community to protect Syria's cultural heritage Beneficiary: UNESCO Amount: 170.000 USD Duration: 2014 - 2016 This project includes a meeting of international experts for the conservation of cultural heritage in Syria and technical emergency assistance. The project highlights the activities set up by UNESCO around this and helps to take emergency measures. It also creates awareness of the destruction of heritage.

Project: Centenary of WWI and its Underwater Cultural Heritage: Exhibit on African and Asian involvement Beneficiary: UNESCO Amount: 49.990 USD Duration: 2014 - 2018 Throughout 2014-2018 the centenary of the First World War is commemorated. The naval battles and remaining underwater cultural heritage linked to those battles merit attention as well. This projects focuses on the African and Asian involvement in naval battles with an exhibition.

Project: Emergency Safeguarding of the Site of Palmyra: Implementation of the World Heritage Committee Decisions Beneficiary: UNESCO Amount: 100.000 USD Duration: 2016 – 2018 Due to the armed conflict in Syria, many World Heritage sites were damaged, including the well-known site of Palmyra. Since the site was accessible again in 2016, Unesco dispatched a rapid assessment mission to assess the damages and identify emergency measures.