Projects

Project: Strengthening subregional cooperation and national capacities in seven southern African countries to implement the 2003 Convention for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage (PART I)  Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: 250 000 USD Duration: 2014 This project aims to establish a subregional cooperation platform to help seven southern African countries in their efforts to protect the heritage living within their borders. This platform consolidates the results of previous projects funded by Flanders.

Project: organization of academic summit between the EU and the CELAC countries Beneficiary: vzw Local Organizing Committee Amount: 20.000 euro Duration: 2015 Grant to the non-profit Local Organizing Committee in charge of organizing an academic summit between the EU and the countries CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos Caribeños y).

Project: Strengthening subregional cooperation and national capacities in seven southern African countries to implement the 2003 Convention for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage (PART II)  Beneficiary: UNESCO Amount: 250.000 USD Duration: 2016-2017 This follow-up project pays special attention to ensure adequate institutional environment, the ability to develop legislative and policy frameworks or improve and the availability of national expertise. Part I

Project: Grant for organisation Guest of Honor at Frankfurter Buchmesse Beneficiary: Flemish Literature Fund Amount: 400.000 euro Duration: October 2016 In 2016, Flanders and the Netherlands presented jointly the Frankfurter Buchmesse, the largest and most important literary fair in the world. They do this under the motto "this is what we share.

Project: Learning for Peace  Beneficiary: Flanders Peace Field vzw  Amount: 20.000 euro Duration: December 2013 - December 2014 Flanders Peace Field organization wants to set up a educational project to guide young people towards peace education, community building, empowerment and critical citizenship through the story of the Christmas ceasefires and football.  The history of WWI and its Christmas ceasefires, like the football story, is a way to make young people reflect on conflicts of today, about living together, about tolerance and diversity, on fair play on and off the football fiel

Project:  Strengthening human rights, citizenship, intercultural and other standards in the curriculum of public education in Iraqi Kurdistan Beneficiary: Human Rights Office (OHCHR/UNAMI HRO) Amount: 114.017 euro Duration: 2016 Minister-president Bourgeois decided during his official visit to Iraqi Kurdistan in April 2016 to support the project "Human Rights Education in Schools". The goal of this project is to strengthen human rights, citizenship, intercultural and other standards in the curriculum of public education in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Summary: Framework convention of Faro on the value of cultural heritage for the society Signed: 25/06/2012 Sanctioned and promulgated: 14/02/2014 pdf file1001_Akte in het Engels.pdf (156 KB) pdf file1001_Decreet.pdf (34 KB)

Summary: Cultural cooperation Belgium - Indonesia Signed: 15/01/1970 International ratification 23/11/1972 Entry inro force: 23/12/1972 pdf file362_Agreement in English.pdf (94 KB)  

Summary: Cultural cooperation Belgium - Ireland Signed: 08/07/1980 Sanctioned and promulgated: 30/06/1982 International ratification: 17/09/1982 Entry into force: 01/10/1982 pdf file353_Agreement in English.pdf (294 KB) pdf file353_Decreet.pdf (65 KB)  

Project: Curriculum ‘The Volunteers: Americans join World War One, 1914-1919’ Beneficiary: AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc  Amount: 30.000 USD Duration: 2014 - 2016 The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I, 1914-1919 Curriculum was launched on March 2 at an event hosted by the Flanders House in New York City and online at thevolunteers.afs.org. The event featured keynote speaker Sophie De Schaepdrijver, a distinguished Belgian historian, Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and recipient of the Order of the Crown (Belgium).

Project: The Fire of Leuven. Chronicle of a War Crime. Beneficiary: Fonk vzw Amount: 7.000 euros Duration: December 2013 - August 2014 In late August 1914, Leuven fell victim to blind war rage. Virtually the entire city centre was systematically destroyed by the German occupying forces.

Summary: The purpose of the revised Convention is to provide a legal and financial framework for the co-production of feature-length films involving production companies established in three or more states Parties. The revised Convention can also be used as a bilateral framework in the absence of a specific co-production treaty between two Parties. Signed: 28/08/2017 Sanctioned and promulgated: 29/06/2018 pdf file1193_Agreement in English.pdf (148 KB) pdf file1193_Decreet.pdf (245 KB)  

Project: Exhibition Rubens. Painter of sketches Beneficiary: Prado Museum Madrid Budget: 90.000 euro Duration: April - Agust 2018 The exhibition “Rubens. Painter of sketches” will take place from 9 April to 5 August 2018 in the Prado Museum in Madrid. The museum brings together 75 artworks of Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). The exhibition will also be shown at the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam. Peter Paul Rubens is an Antwerp painter.

Project: Arts Flanders Beneficiary: Farm Radio Trust Duration: 2017 Budget: 24.000 euro Arts Flanders is a referral portal for both non-Belgians and Belgians abroad to find their way around government bodies and the various information platforms in the arts, heritage, amateur arts, social-cultural work for adults and young people, local cultural policy and socio-artistic initiatives. Arts Flanders is a visible brand, which increases the overseas visibility of Flemish arts and heritage as a whole.

Project: 10 partial scholarships for academic year 2017-2018 C-MAT Beneficiary: Centre for Maritime and Air Transport Management Budget: 110.000 euro Duration: January 2017 - December 2017 C-MAT, the Centre for Maritime & Air Transport Management at the University of Antwerp is one of the world's premier suppliers of highly specialised academic as well as practice-based education and research in transport economics. The main objective of the C-MAT programme is to help executive staff members from transport-related companies and organisations (shipping companies, port authorities, term

Project: Costs allowance Asia tour Beneficiary: vzw B'Rock Budget: 15.000 euro Duration: 2018 B'Rock Orchestra was set up in Ghent in 2005 on the basis of an urge for renewal and rejuvenation in the world of Early Music. Our international musicians distinguish themselves by their open mind and flexibility of repertoire and playing style. In the choices it makes for its concert programmes, B'Rock combines established works by baroque composers with the lesser-known repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. Classical music is becoming popular in Asia.

Project: Balkan Express Caravan Meeting Beneficiary: Bunker Ljubljana Budget: 10.000 euro Duration: 5 tot 9 June 2017 Flanders Arts Institute, Balkan Express Network & Bunker Ljubljana organised a four-day meeting around artistic production and working conditions in contemporary civil society in a wider Europe – under the moniker of Balkan Express Caravan Meeting. Artists, producers, curators/programmers and art theorists from Flanders, Belgium, Slovenia, Kosovo, Serbia, Georgia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Romania, Poland and other European countries exchange insights and explore opport

Project: Co-financing the UGent Chair “South Africa: Languages, Literatures, Culture and Society” Beneficiary: Ghent University Budget: 21.000 euro Duration: 2018 This Chair is the first Chair ever to be established at the UGent Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. The first chair holder, prof. Hein Willemse from the University of Pretoria, gave his inaugural speech in 2017, in the presence of the subsidiaries who made this Chair possible – including a representative of the Flemish Government, the vice-rector of Ghent University and representatives of the South Africa Foundation in Amsterdam.

Project: International concert tour Rosas en B'Rock- Brandenburg concertos Beneficiary: Rosas Budget: 70.000 euro Duration: 2018 On 12 September 2018, the world premiere of the Brandenburger concerto took place in Berlin. Flemish choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker made her fourth creation on music by Bach.

Project: Operating year 2018 Begunstigde: Arts Flanders Japan Budget: 450.000 euro Duration: 2018 Arts Flanders Japan energizes and nourishes the cultural relations between Flanders and Japan. While thefocus is on Tokyo, activities South Korea and Taiwan are also possible. With a strong network in and the great knowledge of both the Flemish and Japanese cultural field, Arts Flanders Japan is the natural intermediary. In globo it takes the role of broker, networker, bridge builder and driver of Flemish - Japanese cultural interaction and collaboration.  More info