At the end of 2023, the OECD released the ‘Evaluation of Belgium’s COVID-19 Responses’ (OECD, 2023). This work evaluates Belgium’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of three types of measures: crisis management, pandemic preparedness and response and recovery. It also tackles aspects like trust in public institutions, education, economic growth and many others. The evaluation also brings recommendations and key lessons for future preparedness and resilience.
You can find the full version of the report on the OECD website as well as a the highlights: Evaluation of Belgium’s COVID-19 Responses: Fostering Trust for a More Resilient Society | OECD 
BRAIN-be 2.0 is an interdisciplinary research program that aims to support the competencies of the federal government and the activities of the federal scientific institutions. This program was the ideal framework to address the challenges brought forward by the COVID pandemic through the call for proposals 2020-2021. Projects were financed within Pillar 1 (Challenges and knowledge of the living and non-living world) and Pillar 3 (Federal societal challenges) of the BRAIN-be 2.0 program.
