The Federal Public Planning Service Science Policy (; ; ) or Belgian Science Policy Office, Federal Science Policy, known by the acronym BELSPO, is the

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body responsible for research policy in

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. It designs and implements research programmes and networks and manages the participation of Belgium in European and international organisations. BELSPO supervises Belgian federal scientific organisations.

History

Formal political and administrative coordination of the Belgian

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was begun with the creation of the first government organisations in 1959. These included the ''Interministerial Commission for Science Policy'' (ICSP) and the ''National Council for Science Policy'' (NCSP). In 1968, the ''Science Policy Office'' (SPO) was established as a Belgian State administration. BELSPO was previously known as the ''Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs'' (OSTC), which name was changed following the Copernic reform of Belgium's federal administration.

Federal scientific and cultural institutions

* Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms * Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society * Geological Survey of Belgium * National and Provincial State Archives (State Archives in Belgium) *

Planetarium A planetarium (: planetariums or planetaria) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. A dominant feature of most planetariums is ...

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences The Museum of Natural Sciences (, ; , ) is a Brussels museum dedicated to natural history. It is a part of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (; ), itself part of the institutions of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSP ...

* Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy * Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage *

Royal Library of Belgium The Royal Library of Belgium ( ; ; , abbreviated ''KBR'' and sometimes nicknamed in French or in Dutch) is the national library of Belgium. The library has a history that goes back to the age of the Duke of Burgundy, Dukes of Burgundy. In ...

Royal Meteorological Institute The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (French: ''Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique'' or IRM; Dutch: ''Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut van België'' or KMI) is a Belgian federal institute engaged in scientific research in the ...

Royal Museum for Central Africa The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) (; ; ), communicating under the name AfricaMuseum since 2018, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in Tervuren in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, just outside Brussels. It was originally b ...

* Royal Museums for Art and History *

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (, ; , ) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They are part of the institutions of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and consist of six museums: the Oldmasters Museum, the ...

Royal Observatory of Belgium The Royal Observatory of Belgium (; ; ) has been situated in the Uccle municipality of Brussels since 1890. It is part of the institutions of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO). The Royal Observatory was first established in S ...

* Sciensano

Federal scientific and cultural partner institutions

* Academia Belgica in Rome *

Cinematek The Royal Belgian Film Archive (; ) is a cinematheque located in the Centre for Fine Arts, in Brussels, Belgium. It is often referred to as CINEMATEK (a homophone of ). History The cinematheque was established in 1938 as a film archive by H ...

Euro Space Center {{Coord, 50.0083278, 5.21931389, type:landmark_region:BE-WLX, format=dms, display=title Euro Space Center is a science museum and educational tourist attraction located in Wallonia in the village of Transinne, municipality of Libin, Belgium, L ...

* Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences *

Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) is a non-profit educational and scientific organization which specializes in three specific fields: aeronautics and aerospace, environment and applied fluid dynamics, turbomachinery and propuls ...

References

BELSPO

External links

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Belgian Portal for Research and Innovation

Presentation of R&D policies in Belgium (European Commission website, ERAWATCH)

Presentation of innovation policies in Belgium (European Commission website, ProInno TrendChart for Innovation)
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History

Federal scientific and cultural institutions

Federal scientific and cultural partner institutions

See also

References

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