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Statistics Flanders recently launched the brochure ‘Flanders in Figures’. This publication provides a snapshot of Flanders based on a selection of key Flemish official statistics.

The Flemish Culture House de Brakke Grond, DutchCulture, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Flemish Department of Culture, Youth launch OverBruggen.info: a digital merger of the Flemish and Dutch cultural sectors.

On 26 October the European External Action Service (“EEAS”) launched the highly anticipated searchable online database cont

On 19 November, a conference on the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) took place in Rome. A delegation of Flemish Minister of Education, Ben Weyts, participated in the digital conference.

On 4 November, Minister-Presidents Jan Jambon and Mark Rutte concluded the Flemish-Dutch Summit with a joint statement. The summit took place entirely digitally this year, in view of the Covid19 measures.

On 26 October, the Government of Flanders approved a grant of 600,000 euros to APOPO. With this subsidy APOPO can join the fight against the spread of the COVID19 virus in Mozambique.

On 9 November, Minister-president Jan Jambon held online consultations with Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, Minister-president of the Basque Country, and with Arantxa Tapia, Minister for Economic Development, also responsible for digitisation.

Minister-president Jan Jambon expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and to the people of Austria following the terrorist attack in Vienna on 2 November.

On 23 October Quebec and Flanders launched a project call Culture aimed at cooperation in the performing arts sectors for young audiences, dance, music and digital culture.