Projects

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.

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.

Project: Operating grant Beneficiary: PEN Vlaanderen Budget: 4.082,20 euros Period: 2019 PEN Vlaanderen actively defends fellow-writers around the world, both through direct and indirect support.  PEN Flanders uses culture as a carrier of values in the international relations of Flanders and the European Union. Cultural diplomacy, based on a framework that integrates values, can help steer the process towards more democracy.

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).