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Flanders Research Area 2002 Flanders’ Research Area Flanders’ Research Area edition 2002 Contents PREFACE 7 PART 1 Administration, Advisory Bodies and Co-ordinating Organisations 9 Science and Innovation Administration 10 Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders 12 Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders 14 Flemish Science Policy Council 16 Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts 18 Flanders Marine Institute 20 Flemish Institute for Science and Technology Assessment 22 PART 2 Research Organisations 25 Interuniversity MicroElectronics Centre (IMEC) 26 Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology 29 Flemish Institute for Technological Research 32 Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITMA) 34 Population and Family Study Centre 36 Institute for Forestry and Game Management 37 Institute of Nature Conservation 39 Institute for the Archaeological Heritage 40 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 42 Agricultural Research Centre 44 PART 3 Universities 47 Catholic University of Brussels 48 Catholic University of Leuven 50 Limburg University Centre 53 University of Antwerp 56 Ghent University 59 Brussels’ Free University 62 PART 4 Schools for Higher Education 67 Arteveldehogeschool 68 Erasmushogeschool Brussel 70 Group T 72 Hogeschool Antwerpen 73 Hogeschool Gent 75 Hogeschool Limburg 78 Institute for Higher Education in the Sciences and the Arts 80 Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen 81 Contents (PART 4 - Schools for Higher Education) Karel de Grote-Hogeschool 83 Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende 85 Katholieke Hogeschool Brussel 87 Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen 89 Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven 91 Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven 94 Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West-Vlaanderen 97 Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg 99 PART 5 Collective Research Centres 103 Belgian Welding Institute (BWI) 104 Belgian Ceramic Research Centre (BCRC) 106 Coatings Research Institute (CoRI) 107 Belgian Research Centre of the Cement Industry (CRIC) 109 Belgian Road Research Centre (BRRC) 111 Belgian Institute for Wood Technology (CTIB-TCHN) 113 Technical and Scientific Centre for the Brewing, the Malting and Related Industries (CBM) 114 Scientific & Technical Service Centre for the Belgian Textile Industry (Centexbel) 115 WTCM-CRIF 117 Belgian Building Research Institute (BBRI) 119 Scientific and Technological Research Centre for Diamond (W.T.O.C.D.) 122 Marleen Vanderpoorten Dirk Van Mechelen Preface The social and economic progress of our societies is largely determined by the way in which they can produce, integrate and absorb scientific knowledge and technological know-how. Throughout history, Flanders’ prosperity and progress have been built by the creativity, the diligence and the perseverance of its population. Following the footsteps of the Flemish professor Baekelandt, who invented the bakelite, Flemish researchers have internationally patented an astonishing gamut of inventions in all scientific disciplines (ranging from electronics to environmental technologies), resulting in numerous cooperation treaties with companies from home and abroad. Since science and technological innovation policy became regionalised competences within a federated Belgium, the Flemish Government has intensively supported scientific research and technological development by drastically augmenting its annual budget for Research and Development. Together with the business sector, the Flemish Government aims at yearly investing 2% of its Gross Regional Product in R&D. Also, Flanders has always fully utilised its favourable geographical location, right in the heart of Europe. Its large seaports - Antwerpen, Zeebrugge and Gent - are equipped with a highly advanced harbour infrastructure. Its airports of Zaventem, Oostende and Antwerpen give direct access to the rest of Europe. Its well-kept highways and railways comprise one of the world’s densest networks. In order to maintain and fortify its economic basis and international competitiveness ensuing from its infrastructural trump cards, Flanders has elaborated a Flemish-European head transport axis, consisting of a high-grade, highly diversified traffic and transport network connecting Flanders with its European hinterland. Flanders has all the assets to be a meeting point for knowledge and talent. Networking and collaboration have indeed become keywords and Flanders is fully prepared and equipped to play its role in a globalising knowledge society. Universities, research institutes and companies participate in international research programmes, both in bilateral and multilateral frameworks. Flemish researchers can be found in laboratories all over the world, and in all major Flemish research institutes, foreign scientists work side by side with their Flemish colleagues. The European research area is in many aspects already a reality in Flanders. This new edition ‘Flanders’ Research Area’ is a second updated version of ‘Scientific Research in Flanders’ which was first issued in 1998. It offers a general overview of the administrative structures in science and technological innovation and of the knowledge centres in Flanders. The first part describes the main activities of the Science and Innovation Administration and its related agencies and advisory bodies. The second part gives an overview of the research organisations. The third part gives a general description of the Flemish universities. Part four focusses on the schools for higher education offering courses at an academic level and performing scientific and technological research. New in this edition is part 5: the collective research centres. As such, the present publication acts as a source of information, not only for those research institutes and companies looking for scientific and technological collaboration, but also for those looking for investment opportunities in Europe and wondering if and where they will find the necessary technological base.The answer is in this book. Flanders is the place to come to. Mrs. Marleen Vanderpoorten Flemish Minister for Education and Training Mr. Dirk Van Mechelen Flemish Minister for Finance and Budget, Innovation, Media and Town and Country Planning Administration, Advisory Bodies and Co-ordinating Organisations PART 1 Science and Innovation Administration Administratie Wetenschap en Innovatie (AWI) 10 Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (F.W.O.) 12 Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders Instituut voor de Aanmoediging van Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie in Vlaanderen (IWT) 14 Flemish Science Policy Council Vlaamse Raad voor Wetenschapsbeleid (VRWB) 16 Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts 1 9 Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (KVAB) 18 Flanders Marine Institute Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) 20 Flemish Institute for Science and Technology Assessment Vlaams Instituut voor Wetenschappelijk en Technologisch Aspectenonderzoek (viWTA – Samenleving & Technologie) 22 Science and Innovation Administration Administratie Wetenschap en Innovatie (AWI) Organisation The Science and Innovation Administration (AWI) supports the Flemish Minister for Education and Training and the Flemish Minister for Finance and Budget, Innovation, Media and Town and Country Planning in the preparation and implementation of the policy.The Administration belongs to the Science, Innovation and Media Department of the Ministry of the Flemish Community. It was established through the Flemish Parliament Act on Administrative Policy which entered into effect on 12 December 1990. Policy AWI outlines a science policy for Flanders which is coherent in that it combines fundamental, applied and policy- oriented research into one policy. This science policy is tailored to the needs of the 21st century. The aim of the science and technology policy in Flanders is to extend and deepen the basis of the scientific 10 1 know-how and technological skills as a prerequisite for maintaining and increasing the population’s prosperity and welfare. The Administration has only a limited number of policy implementing tasks. It merely carries out tasks that cannot be implemented by others or that are of vital importance for policy preparation and evaluation, which is the AWI’s core task. The AWI promotes the optimum use of federal, European and international opportunities and brings our researchers into contact with other researchers as much as possible. Activities The main activities of the ‘Science’ Division are: • coordinating scientific research policy (focusing on academic research), within the Ministry of the Flemish Community and also with the relevant institutions and agencies. This also includes elucidating and defending the viewpoints of the Flemish Community in federal issues; • establishing federal scientific cooperation as well as bilateral international collaboration. In this context, the Administration established bilateral contacts with the corresponding governmental organisations in the different priority partner countries. The long-term objective of this initiative is to stimulate solid cooperation between Flemish and foreign research groups which will in turn facilitate their joint submission of research proposals to different supra-national funding agencies; • implementing the scientific research policy and monitoring its implementation by the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders as well as by the universities; • providing the public with science information, the
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