Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

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.

The Informal Meeting of Energy Ministers: “Fuelling a Secure, Low-Carbon and Affordable Energy Future for Europe”

The week in Strasbourg will see Commission President José Manuel Barroso make his first "State of the European Union" speech. Also on the agenda is how to help Pakistan after the floods devastated the country. The controversy over the Roma deportations will also be discussed during talks between MEPs and the European Commission. There is also likely to be steps to limit the use of animals in scientific testing. All of these issues can be followed here on the Parliament's website. (source: European Parliament)

Over the course of their lives, European citizens should have a right to adequate and economically sustainable social protection. The twin Ministerial conferences will look at the future of social protection systems and pensions, their suitability and budgetary issues.

The “Industrial Technologies 2010” conference offers a complete programme with the aim of evaluating integration between disciplines, stakeholders and various players in the NMP (nano, materials and production) sector.

The very dynamic culture sector, the cultural and creative industries in particular, generates and stimulates considerable potential for creativity which makes it an important actor for meeting the challenges with which the European Union is confronted today. Within the context of the implementation of the “EU 2020” strategy, the goal is to highlight and promote the considerable potential of the cultural and creative industries.

The Informal Meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers aims at allowing Ministers to share thoughts about current problems concerning the European Union foreign policy freely and intensely. Rather than reaching formal conclusions, Gymnich looks at outlining the main themes from the European Union Foreign Policy.

The General Affairs Council is composed of the Ministers of Foreign and/or European Affairs of the Member States. The Council meets formally once a month. The General Affairs Council prepares for meetings of the European Council. It supervises the continuity and coherence of the Council’s other configurations and is also responsible for institutional issues and horizontal dossiers, such as the multiannual financial framework and enlargement.

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.

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. 

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.

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

The new opera from Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans, based on the eponymous work by Witold Gombrowicz, has its Belgian premiere one year after it was written for the Opéra National de Paris.

Living Room Music is the shared pet project of Festival of Flanders Brussels and MuziekPublique. For the eighth time already they are organising these small-scale and exquisite living room concerts. In as many as ten living rooms of a specific Brussels district, different concerts will take place over the course of two afternoons.

A concert with compositions by Philippe Boesmans whose new work, Chambres d’à côté, commissioned by La Monnaie opera house, Klarafestival and Bozar for the Tana Quartet.

Astonishing and original group, which brings together mentally disabled musicians and independent musicians… On the initiative of the La Hesse CEC, an association working for the promotion of the artistic skills of mentally disabled people with the Inuti (Stockholm) and Remi (France) associations. Brass, voices, percussion, guitars, machines… "The Choolers" is a remarkable musical mixture, the secret of which is the artistic and human collaboration between mentally disabled people and amateur and professional musicians from various European countries.