Calendar of Belspo meetings

Read more about the official calendar of meetings of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union lead or colead by BELSPO. The list includes official meetings and informal meetings.
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29-06-24 | Soapbox Science

Soapbox Science 2024: female scientists take the floor at the heart of Brussels

On Saturday 29 June 2024, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., twelve female researchers from all over Belgium will be sharing their passion and knowledge in a fun and accessible way at Place de la Monnaie/Muntplein. During the event, four soapboxes will be placed on the Place de la Monnaie/Muntplein. On each soapbox, a speaker talks about their research and interacts with the public passing by, for the duration of an hour. Talks will be in French, Dutch and English, the most commonly used languages in Brussels. This year, we will notably explore blood vessels lesions, the search for exoplanets, crop genome edition and using AI to understand the role of genes in the brain development.
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24-09-24 | Colloque BRAIN-be 'WomenExile'

Activists in Exile. Gender, Political Commitment and Migration in the Twentieth Century

The aim of this conference is to highlight recent developments in research on migrant activists, exploring the interactions between gender, political commitment and migration in the 20th century. Proposals may focus on women's involvement as well as on masculinities or gender relations in an activist context. How does gender influence militancy in migration? And how do political commitment and migration influence gender relations and the construction of femininity and masculinity?
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Till 21-07-24 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts

IMAGINE!
100 Years of International Surrealism

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are inaugurating IMAGINE!, an extraordinary international touring exhibition conceived in close collaboration with the Centre Pompidou (Paris).
An immersion in surrealist poetry, dream, the labyrinth, metamorphosis, the unknown and the subconscious, led by the great names of surrealists, from Max Ernst to Giorgio de Chirico, , not forgetting Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Jane Graverol, Dorothea Tanning, Man Ray, Leonor Fini, etc.
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till 25-08-24 | Museum of Natural Sciences

GIANTS: a BIG opportunity to feel small

Smilodon, Paraceratherium, Megatherium… They all roamed the earth after the dinosaurs. Do you know about them?
66 million years ago, an asteroid impact caused the extinction of a vast number of animal species like dinosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs. Providing an opportunity for a few small animals that had until then lived in the shadow of the giants! They diversified, and some grew in size, sometimes even to gigantic proportions.
GIANTS will take you on a journey back in time, from the Paleogene to the Quaternary. Meet eleven animals of spectacular proportions such as Otodus megalodon, the most powerful shark to ever have lived, and Gigantopithecus blacki, the Asian monkey as big as three orang-utans.
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till 29-09-24 | AFRICAMUSEUM

ReThinking Collections

How do we trace the origins of collections? How do we view such origins today? And what should become of these collections, within and beyond the museum’s walls?
ReThinking Collections is a new temporary exhibition on provenance research. Most of the collections in the AfricaMuseum were acquired during the colonial era, in what is now the DR Congo. Provenance research and the related matter of restitution are attracting more attention in current social and political debate.
The exhibition shows the sometimes complex realities of provenance research. It presents varied and occasionally surprising collections, without sidestepping questions related to this contested heritage. The museum also explores new perspectives and future approaches to colonial collections.
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- Upcoming exhibition -
from 28-06-2024 till 31-07-24 | KBR

Nationale Expo | Expo nationale

Een unieke tentoonstelling van museumPASSmusées en VRT in KBR, zet verborgen kunsttalent in de spotlight. Dit jaar lieten de beeldende kunstenaars zich inspireren door het werk van James Ensor, in het kader van het Ensorjaar 2024. De laureaten van De Nationale Expo editie Ensor worden gekozen door het brede publiek en een professionele jury via een nationale wedstrijd.
Une exposition unique de museumPASSmusées et de la VRT à KBR, met en lumière des talents artistiques cachés. Cette année, les artistes plasticiens se sont inspirés de l’œuvre de James Ensor, dans le cadre de l’Année Ensor 2024. Les lauréats de l’Expo nationale édition Ensor sont choisis par le public et un jury professionnel dans le cadre d’un concours national.
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DIGIT the Digitization Programme of the Belgian Science Policy

Preserving Belgium's rich cultural and scientific heritage and disclosing those valuable assets for researchers and the general public is important.
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