Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

The third Meeting of the Whole: "A regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects". The meeting, scheduled for August of 2010, will look at defining the budgetary and institutional aspects of the process, as well as the content to be added to the main lines.

Meeting Political and Security Committee

The conference on child poverty aims to commit each Member State to take into account the problems of children living in poverty and to find solutions to reduce this level of child poverty. This conference will be organised in accordance with a concept of active participation, known as « Town Hall », where the voice of each participant will be heard. The conclusions that will be drawn from this conference will contribute to the political process in preparation for the adoption of a Recommendation by the European Commission.

The aim of the Pacioli workshops is to bring people together who use data from agricultural accountancy networks or are involved in their management. The participants will discuss agricultural accounts and micro-economic information for policy support at the workshops.

Technopolis® will bring a European interactive exhibition and workshops to the open days of the Royal Palace in Brussels.

Veiling Hoogstraten and Veiling Zundert will host the first International Strawberry Congress on 1, 2 & 3 September 2010 under the title Research & Sustainable Production Leading to Successful Marketing. The main congress venue will be the Hilton Hotel in the historic centre of Antwerp. The congress focuses on the development, production and marketing of strawberries, with sustainability as central theme. The programme comprises two days of lectures by speakers, presentations and panel discussions and one day of excursions to Hoogstraten and Zundert.

A pioneer in the Youth Information sector, Infor Jeunes Bruxelles Nord Ouest has spent four decades bringing pluralist information to various young audiences. Infor Jeunes Laeken is on the periphery of what has been agreed shall be called the "poor crescent" of Brussels. Among the large majority of young people, and particularly those from working class backgrounds, Europe tends to be reduced to a single currency and a commonplace repeated a thousand times "Brussels, capital of Europe". And that's about all.

In 2010, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) is inviting visual artist Jan Vanriet (1948, Antwerp) to design a grand itinerary through the galleries of the Old and Modern Masters in the museum.

Lively and complex, the work of Philippe Herbet is the fruit of a quest begun long ago by this artist from Liège. He unveils his colour photographs here, which were taken in Belarus. With its poetic and elegant form, his work immerses us in his journeys filled with beautiful objects, unusual monuments, and strange and disturbing women. Inspired by both literature and photography, he pairs his photographs with texts from his postcards.

Installation consisting of 200 monuments in the gardens of the Château des Langues in Hamois.

This summer, Africa explodes in colours and life to celebrate 50 years of independence in Congo and 16 other African countries. A festival with the finest in theatre arts and dedicated creators. The fascinating GEO-graphics exhibition constitutes the first part of a new vision of our relationship with Africa. All the festival artists are then encouraged to come join the discussion and the engagement for this visionary Africa during their 48 hours in Brussels.

In connection with Belgium’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Belgian State Archives will be organising an exhibition about the establishment of the European Institutions in Brussels. The Belgian State Archives (including the Archive of the Royal Palace) itself has various rich archive stocks that illustrate this subject and is also undertaking complementary research in other archive bodies and documentation centres.

When the design world moves into to the power station, something must be afoot! 20 designers agreed to play the game, to reveal the mysterious and hazardous journey from creative idea to finished object, a design object intended for mass production to improve our lives; this conversation oscillates between art and technology, it is a constant - and sometimes strained - dialogue between the designer and the constraints of industrial manufacture. 

The permanent exhibition "The ikob Collection – in progress" adapts its content in tandem with temporary exhibitions. To create additional dialogue between the different exhibitions, the curator Francis Feidler chooses a selection of works from the museum’s collection.

Photography exhibition with Alice Smeets (B), Willy Filz (B), Christian Roosen (B), Geneviève Biwer (L) & Thomas Brenner (D).

Take part in a fun adventure quest through Brussels' European district, complete with a prize-winning contest, a version for kids (also with prize-winning contest) and a photo competition.

Technopolis brings an interactive European science show. The show contains many exciting and surprising experiments, tested and performed in science centres across Europe. With that Technopolis combines all that the best European science centres have to offer.

A symbol of Research in the Brussels-Capital Region, the Ishango bone is above all a genuine scientific treasure.
It would be the oldest known proof of the mathematical ability of our distant ancestors: a prehistoric calculator that’s about 25,000 years old!
 

The museum and its collection: the permanent collection displays items from different generations which all share common ground in the fantastic, the alien or the surreal. This completely atypical collection mixes all forms: plastic arts, painting, sculpture, etc. In a mansion located a stone’s throw from the Musée Horta, you can meet an Elephant Man who may disclose his life story to you, discover numerous surprising works such as The Killer Flies or The Mummy of Mato Grosso or observe a morpho-symbiosis between a woman and a spider close up! Like it or not, the collection is as unique as it is surprising. The museum is also endeavouring to constantly enrich its collection with new items. 

Every year the Brigittines Festival selects a theme that raises a new question and challenges the audience to shift its perspective. The theme of the 2010 festival will be "Societies of the night" and will evoke unlikely encounters and ambiguous atmospheres that uncover intriguing facets of identity and recognition. It will comprise 13 events and include 26 performances, 10 open houses and 1 video installation screening films.

Throughout the Belgian Presidency of the EU, the Brussels-Capital Region will be offering tours of discovery in the canal area (guided, with a reservation, or unaccompanied) of projects cofinanced by the European Union.

Artists' portraits is a collection started by the SmartBe Foundation. The Foundation decided to put together a collection of contemporary works of art in connection with the artist's portrait, a theme close to the mission and objectives of SMartBe.

Belgium’s highest-profile celebration of modern music, the Ward’in Rock Festival offers a programme of top-quality European and Belgian artists in a green setting. Music for every taste including pop, rock, folk, electronic and reggae will be performed to 10,000 festival-goers from near and far.

The “SOS Planet” exhibition is set to be the biggest exhibition ever created on the topic of climate change.