Projects

Summary: for the purpose of establishing air services between and beyond their respective territories. Signed: 23/11/2012 pdf file1254_Agreement in English.pdf (367 KB)  

Summary: The purpose of this Agreement is to establish a strengthened partnership between the Parties, to provide a framework to facilitate and promote cooperation across a broad range of areas of mutual interest and to enhance cooperation in order to develop solutions to regional and global challenges. Signed: 07/08/2017 Sanctioned and promulgated: 29/06/2018 pdf file1184_Agreement in English.pdf (193 KB) pdf file1184_Decreet.pdf (214 KB)  

Project: 1917 - 2017 Flanders welcomes the bereaved Beneficiary: Westtoer apb Amount: 15.980 Euros Duration: 2017 For the important commemorative year 2017 Westtoer started the  project '1917 Total war in Flanders'. The main communication tool for the project in the targeted countries (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands) , is a social media designed promotional video.

Summary: Double taxation treaties are treaties between two states in which they coordinate their tax collection to prevent citizens paying taxes twice or not at all. Signed: 24/06/2009 Sanctioned and promulgated: 28/03/2014 Entry into force: 12/05/2014 pdf file906_Ondertekende akte in het Engels.pdf (121 KB) pdf file906_Decreet.pdf (51 KB)

Project: international commemoration of the Third Battle of Ypres  Beneficiary: Society Passchendaele Society vzw  Amount: 140.000 euro Duration: July 2017 - November 2017 The project is based on the international commemoration of some dramatic historical moments of the Third Battle of Ypres on the particular day (exactly 100 years after the fact), knowingly places (Tyne Cot Cemetery, Crest Farm, Gravenstafel, Belle vue , Polygon Wood, Frezenberg ...) and (representatives of) countries, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany.

Project: Memorial Garden - Flanders Fields Memorial Garden in Canberra Beneficiary: Australian War Memorial Amount: 200.000 euro Duration: opening in April 2017 In April 2017 the Australian War Memorial officially opened the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden. The memorial gardens abroad help to ensure international attention for Flanders Fields and Flanders as peace destination after 2018. The memorial gardens honor and commemorate everyone who fought and died during the war.

Project: Commemorating 100 years Battle of Messines Beneficiary: Municipality Heuvelland Amount: 49.775 euro Duration: June 10, 2017 During the Battle on June 7, 1917 the British army left 19 mines explode under the ridge around and around Mesen / Wijtschate. The Second Battle of Messines went down in history as the worst military explosion until the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and changed the landscape around Heuvelland and Messines final.

Project: Commemoration Battle of Messines  Beneficiary: City Messines Amount: 60.000 euros Duration: June 7, 2017 On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 it will be exactly 100 years ago that 19 mines exploded under the German positions and thus heralded the start of the infamous Battle of Messines. The explosions resulted in gigantic craters, which are still visible in Messines, Ypres and Heuvelland. Several monuments and cemeteries in the region refer to this historical battle. 100 years later, these historical events are commemorated internationally.

Summary: Arrangement between the Government of Flanders and the Government of Australia related to cooperation in the field of the shared history of the world wars of the twentieth century Signed: 22/04/2009    pdf file829_Ondertekende akte in het Engels.pdf (134 KB)