The Interuniversity Attraction Poles (PAI) Programme

History

The IAP programme was launched for the first time in 1987 and this action has been developed in 7 phases of 5 years each.

For the 7 phases the Belgian federal authority invested some 670 million EUR.

IAP-phase	Period	Budget	Number of networks
Phase-I	1987 - 1991	40 million EUR	14
Phase-II + prolongation	1990 - 1995 1995 - 1996	50 million EUR 10 million EUR	23
Phase-III	1992 - 1996	50 million EUR	16
Phase-IV	1997 - 2001	110 million EUR	35
Phase-V	2002 - 2006	112 million EUR	36
Phase-VI	2007 - 2011	143 million EUR	44
Phase-VII	2012 - 2017	156 million EUR	47