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Impulse for research in the Belgian federal scientific institutes

Organization:

  • Responsible(s) Federal Science Policy: Belleflamme Claudine
  • Final decision of the Ministers Council: 20/2/1998
  • Duration of the research: 1/1/1998 - //
  • Research projects: 241

Objectives:

Within the institutions, the Minister finances the following actions:

- Action 1: multi-annual research projects;
- Action 2: doctorates;
- Action 3: support for the participation of the institutions in international scientific research activities;
- Action 4: support to the training and advanced study of statutory members of the institution in the field of scientific research.

Description:

The institution heads submit action proposals at the invitation of the Office's Secretary General.

The Office is responsible for selecting the actions and monitoring the use of the financial resources granted to the institutions.

Research projects:

MO/31/001: Inventory of the collection of Middle Dutch Manuscripts of the Royal Library of Belgium

MO/31/002: Catalogue of 17th and 18th century Brussels imprints in the Royal Library of Belgium

MO/31/003: A catalogue of 17th and 18th century Brussels imprints in the Royal Library of Belgium

MO/31/004: Analysis of the development of a structured, efficient system for making historical atlases available with the help of metadata and an analogue-to-digital conversion process

MO/31/005: Research Project at the Royal Library on the study of discography as a scientific source of information for musicology

MO/31/006: Out of Rubens’ Shadow: Graphic Art from the History Painters Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Erasmus Quellinus and Cornelis Schut

MO/31/007: Discography as a scientific source of research in musicology

MO/31/008: “In de Vier Winden / Aux Quatre Vents” (1551-1599) The first Antwerp publisher on world scale

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MO/32/001: Comparative study of governmental structure and decisionmaking in the Southern- Netherlands, particulary in Brabant (15th-18th century)

MO/32/002: An exploration of the business archives at the General State Archives

MO/32/003: Institutional research regarding penitentiary matters (19th - 20th century)

MO/32/004: Public or semi-governmental institutions in Belgium. Foundation, activity, operation

MO/32/005: Research into institutional history of the county of Loon: directory - organisation - activities - administrative procedures - archives management (14th -18th century)

MO/32/006: Institutional research regarding penitentiary matters (19th - 20th Century)

MO/32/007: An exploration of the business archives at the General State Archives as basis of a study concerning the internationalization of the Belgian financial sector during the period 1870-1918

MO/32/008: Areas under Belgian administrative jurisdiction since 1795: history, organisation, powers and functioning

MO/32/009: Political powers in the county of Namur. Repertory of the regional and local institutions - 1000-1795

MO/32/010: The Institutions of the Brussels Region : history, organisation, competences and functioning

MO/32/011: Registration and valorization of business archives as sources for the investigation of the history of industrialization in the province of West-Vlaanderen

MO/32/012: Belgian agriculture at a time of rapid change. Investigating, validating and making available historical records and oral testimony relating to agriculture in Belgium (1800-2000)

MO/32/013: The police reform in Belgium and the archives

MO/32/014: Directory of regional and local public institutions in Hainault and Tournai-Tournaisis under the Ancien Régime

MO/32/015: Guide to the Sources of the History of the First World War in Belgium & Belgian Congo

MO/32/016: Registration and valorisation of Business archives in view of historical research concerning the industrialization process in the province of East Flanders in the last two centuries

MO/32/017: Political powers and Administrations in the Principality of Liège (985-1795) : a Guide of Sources relating to central, regional and local Institutions

MO/32/018: History from below. Inventorying, collecting, making accessible and valorizing pauper letters to Belgian functionaries (1780-1914)

MO/32/019: Collected Information on “Real Estate”. An inquiry into two centuries of functional and territorial reforms and their implications on the creation of public records in the local offices of patrimony documentation

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MO/33/001: Potential field (gravimetric and manetic) analysis for a better understanding of the uppermost part of the crust, the Belgian case

MO/33/002: Improvement of the tropospheric correction applied in GPS geodesy by using the measurements of a water vapor radiometer and meteorological sensors

MO/33/003: Quantification of strong ground motion for large earthquakes in Belgium

MO/33/004: Systematic analysis of the long term evolution of the solar upper atmosphere on the basis of the Belgian SOHO-EITarchive

MO/33/005: Improvement of the tropospheric correction applied in GPS geodesy by using the measurements of a water vapour radiometer and meteorogical sensors

MO/33/006: Seismic cycle duration and maximal magnitude of large earthquakes in the Roer Graben

MO/33/007: Variable components of binaries or multiple stars

MO/33/008: Development of rapid quality testing for the "European Reference Frame" geodesic network in response to the needs of emergent scientific applications

MO/33/009: Systematic analysis of the long-term evolution of the Sun’s upper atmosphere on the basis of the Belgian SOHO/EIT archive

MO/33/010: Systematic investigation and analysis of historical sources concerning destructive earthquakes in our regions between 1350 and 1900

MO/33/011: Fault activity in north-west Europe and its relationship to seismic activity

MO/33/012: Development of software for the (near) real time processing of data collected in the permanent ROB GPS network in order to participate in new geophysical applications of GPS in the international networks

MO/33/013: Interaction Planet-fluid layers: Effects on planetary rotation

MO/33/014: Gravimetric and magnetic Potential field analysis for a better understanding of the structure of the crust in Belgium

MO/33/015: Study of the impact of using combined Galileo and modernized GPS measurements for high accuracy positioning and timing applications

MO/33/016: Evaluation of site effects and local seismic hazard in Belgium

MO/33/017: Physics of post-AGB stars and planetary nebulae

MO/33/018: Pulsation, chemical composition and multiplicity in main-sequence A- and F-type stars

MO/33/019: European ground deformations obtained from GNSS observation networks

MO/33/020: Study of the internal structure of terrestrial planets by stochastic inversion of geophysical data

MO/33/021: Rotation and pulsation in main-sequence gravity mode pulsators

MO/33/022: Global waves and shocks in the corona : origin, inverse & forward modeling

MO/33/023: Determination and modeling of nutation from VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) observations

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MO/34/001: The design and implementation of an object-relational database for the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

MO/34/002: New strategies for the development of a national high resolution forecasting model for Belgium

MO/34/003: Evapotranspiration assessment in the perspective of the next generation of Meteosat satellites data

MO/34/004: Nonlinear dynamics and statistics of electrical discharges in the atmosphere

MO/34/005: Towards a nationwide statistical assessment of extreme precipitation depths and the possible recognition of their exceptional character

MO/34/006: Study of tropospheric ozone at Uccle, in relation with meteorological parameters

MO/34/007: New strategies for the development of a forecasting model for Belgium

MO/34/008: Consistency and paleoclimatic significance of paleomagnetic and magnetic recordings of rock in continental deposits

MO/34/009: Hydrological Forecasts and Risk Assessment for Belgium

MO/34/010: Validation of ENVISAT-1

MO/34/011: Wavelet Based Data Assimilation and Innovative Coupling Methods in Aladin

MO/34/012: Autodif : Automatic Theodolite for Measuring the Magnetic Declination and Inclination

MO/34/013: Toward a general approach for testing physics-dynamics interfaces in numerical weather prediction models

MO/34/014: Aerosol optical depth derived from ground based spectral observations of solar radiation

MO/34/015: Improvement of radar precipitation estimates using volume reflectivity data and mesoscale model forecast

MO/34/016: Assimilation of vertical ozone profile data in the chemical transport model CHIMERE coupled to weather prediction models of RMI

MO/34/017: A new approach to data assimilation accounting for the dynamics and statistics of the model error

MO/34/018: Characterization and nowcasting of convective storm lifecycle over Belgium

MO/34/019: The economic value of the RMI weather Forcasts and Optimized decision-making strategies for socio-eConomic end Users (FOCUS)

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MO/35/001: Determination of the velocity distribution functions of particles in the exosphere of the Earth and of the planets

MO/35/002: Carbon dioxide increase and solar cycle effects on the mesosphere and lower thermosphere of the Earth

MO/35/003: Stratospheric ozone destruction by bromine: a model assisted experimental data analysis

MO/35/004: Measurement, understanding and climatology of stratospheric aerosols

MO/35/005: Development of fast numerical integration algorithms for transport models used in chemical assimilation of the atmosphere

MO/35/006: Global distribution and variability of tropospheric and stratospheric nitrogen dioxide : Enhancement and synergistic use of the multi-platform observing system

MO/35/007: Study of vertically resolved ground-based FTIR measurements at the Jungfraujoch for investigating dynamical and chemical processes at northern mid-latitude

MO/35/008: Study of the minor ions in the solar wind

MO/35/009: Atmospheric microphysics between tropopause and mesopause

MO/35/010: Study of the plasmasphere and the plasmapause

MO/35/011: Inversion and interpretation of high-resolution Fourrier transform nadir soundings of atmospheric thermal infrared radiances

MO/35/012: Global distribution and variability of tropospheric and stratospheric nitrogen dioxide : Enhancement and synergistic use of the multi-platform observing system

MO/35/013: Modelling the Chemistry of the Atmosphere of Mars and Assimilation of the SPICAM Light (Mars Express) Observations

MO/35/014: Toward a unified vision of the Earth’s stratospheric aerosols

MO/35/015: Interaction between the solar corona and the interplanetary dust grains

MO/35/016: Electrodynamic Coupling of the Auroral Ionosphere and Magnetosphere

MO/35/017: Study of the Martian atmosphere: the SPICAM mission

MO/35/018: Study of the plasmasphere and the plasmapause

MO/35/019: Inversion methods for ground-based and satellite observations of aurorae

MO/35/020: Development and evaluation of a modified OEM inversion algorithm for ground-based FTIR spectra. Application to spectra recorded at Reunion Island

MO/35/021: Electrodynamic coupling of the Auroral Ionosphere and Magnetosphere (Follow-up)

MO/35/022: Development and application of new chemical ionisation mass spectrometry techniques for selective detection of biogenic volatile organic compounds

MO/35/023: Study of the Martian atmosphere : the SPICAM mission

MO/35/024: Development and evaluation of a modified OEM inversion algorithm for ground-based FTIR spectra. Application to spectra recorded at Reunion Island

MO/35/025: Inversion methods for ground-based and satellite observations of aurorae

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MO/35/027: Organic aerosols generated from the oxidation of biogenic organic compounds: A modelling study

MO/35/028: Demonstration of an airborne remote sensing limb-DOAS experiment for the measurement of tropospheric profiles of pollutants

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MO/36/001: Cretaceous dinosaurs and mammals from Inner Mongolia (P. R. China)

MO/36/002: Evaluating the effect of pleistocene climate changes on speciation patterns in selected African vertebrates

MO/36/003: Phylogenetic analysis of the bilateria

MO/36/004: Cretaceous dinosaurs and mammals from Inner Mongolia (R.P. China) - Emergence of the hadrosaurs

MO/36/005: Ancient asexual scandals : the effects of reproductive mode on species, speciation and extinction

MO/36/006: Evolution and conservation genetics of ground beetles in West-European salt marshes and forest fragments

MO/36/007: NEMA-BIOSENSOR: diversity of nematodes as a bio-sensor of terrestrial ecosystem quality

MO/36/008: Phylogenetic analysis of bilateria: additional support

MO/36/009: Paleoecology of the human populations of Easter Island

MO/36/010: A phylogenetic and behaviour-based approach of the speciation in the Empidinae (Diptera: Empididae)

MO/36/011: Mammalian evolution and migration during the Paleocene-Eocene transition (60 to 50 million years ago) in the Northern Hemisphere

MO/36/012: Multidisciplinary study of the collections coming from the cave of Spy: new technical and scientific approaches

MO/36/013: Is there a genetic basis for the multiple origin of similar phenotypes in cichlid fishes?

MO/36/014: How does forest history influence invertebrate diversity and evolution?

MO/36/015: Jumping genes (transposons) & the evolution of non-marine ostracods

MO/36/016: The fossil cetacean collection of the RBINS, primary source for unravelling the toothed whale faunal turnover during the Miocene

MO/36/017: Travelling slugs, weird sex and desperate farmers : Taxonomy and evolution of Arionidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

MO/36/018: Modelling the impact of the physical and biological environment on the recruitment of Solea solea fish larvae (SOLEMOD)

MO/36/019: The Oonopidae puzzle : micro-distributed mega-diversity, the secret of adaptive specialization (Araneae)

MO/36/020: The origin of the European modern vertebrates through Palaeogene snake, lizard and amphibian collections of the RBINS

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MO/37/001: Active tectonics and natural hazards in continental rifts (TECTORIFT) : extension

MO/37/002: Photography and African history. The case of the Belgian colonialism

MO/37/003: Valorisation of museum collection databases for biodiversity research

MO/37/004: Comparative research on Central African headgear of the Royal Museum for Central Africa from an ethnohistoric and linguistic perspective

MO/37/005: Determination of the links existing between palaeo-environment variations and life abundance through isotopic fossils

MO/37/006: Photography and history of Africa: the case of Belgian colonisation

MO/37/007: Restoration and valorisation of primatological collections

MO/37/008: A comparative study of the vocabulary for food-producing plants in Central and Southern Africa

MO/37/009: Environmental changes in Lake Tanganyika: the bivalve monitoring

MO/37/010: Multidisciplinary research on the diversity of fishes from the Congo Basin; the fishes of the Lower Congo and the Malebo pool

MO/37/011: Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) of the Afrotropical Region: biodiversity study using a multidisciplinary approach and creating a new digital information system

MO/37/012: Geodynamic processes, erosion and sedimentation for the last 30.000 years in the Tanganyika-Rukwa-Malawi Rift area, Western Tanzania

MO/37/013: Si cycle in the Congo Basin: The isotopic approach

MO/37/014: Study of the diversity and resilience of the canopy spider fauna of African rainforests

MO/37/015: Decoding of the environmental information in the woody tissue of tropical trees : a wood anatomical and chemical contribution

MO/37/016: Crossing borders : an integrated archaeological & linguistic approach to population dynamics in southern Central Africa

MO/37/017: Molecular & morphological characterisation of fruit fly (Diptera, Tephritidae) pests in Africa

MO/37/018: Study & monitoring of active African volcanoes by radar interferometry

MO/37/019: Decoding of the environmental information in the woody tissue of tropical trees : a wood anatomical and chemical contribution (AFRODENDRO)

MO/37/020: Languages, genes and the Bantu problem : Western Zambia as a case study for an interdisciplinary approach to the population history of Southern Central Africa

MO/37/021: Iron isotope geochemistry, iron cycling, geodynamics and mineral resources in Africa

MO/37/022: Biodiversity and molecular evolutionary studies of leaf-mining moths in the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae)

MO/37/023: Congo in Tervuren. A History of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (1925-2010)

MO/37/024: Discontinuities and tectono-sedimentary events in the Cuvette centrale and surrounding basins in D.R. Congo (TectoSediCongo)

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MO/38/001: Historical synthesis of the Belgian decorative arts during the 19th century applied to the didactic presentation of the collection

MO/38/002: The lithic technology in prehistory. Inter-regional comparative approach

MO/38/003: Lithic technology in Prehistory. Inter-regional comparative approach

MO/38/004: The Gallo-Roman metallic vessel in North Gaul - Survey of the Belgian material and its socio-economic context

MO/38/005: Belgium-France. Proposal for a comparative study of two major centres of decorative arts during the Art Nouveau period (1890-1914)

MO/38/006: Funeral objects from the protodynastic royal tombs at Abydos (Egypt). Study of material preserved at the Royal Musems of Art and History

MO/38/007: The Oldest Ritual Monuments on Easter Island

MO/38/008: Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic industries in different regions of Europe

MO/38/009: Archaeology and rock art at Kefra (Syria)

MO/38/010: Late Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic industries in different regions of Europe

MO/38/011: The Oldest Ritual Monuments on Easter Island

MO/38/012: A research project on the instruments used in Claudio Monteverdi’s orfeo

MO/38/013: Apamea in Syria.Topography and urbanism in the Near East from the Hellenistic era until the Mameluk period. Creation of a Geographic Information System

MO/38/014: Decorate barkcloth of Melanesia and Western Polynesia

MO/38/015: Study of rock art in the department of Tarija (South of Bolivia)

MO/38/016: A research project on the instruments used in Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo in 1607 and 1609

MO/38/017: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Uzbekistan

MO/38/018: The deconstruction of the ritual monuments of Easter Island

MO/38/019: Apamea in Syria. Topography and urbanism in the Near East from the Hellenistic era until the Mameluk period. Creation of a GIS – Phase II

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MO/38/022: Timbre-modifying mechanisms of chordophones. Multidisciplinary study

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MO/39/001: 14C-Sample quality research program

MO/39/002: The acidity of paper. Evaluation of methods for pH measurement on microsamples of paper

MO/39/003: 14C-sample quality research program

MO/39/004: Scientific study of the "pré-eyckienne" painting

MO/39/005: Scientific research on pre-Eyckian paintings

MO/39/006: Food Crusts on Pottery project

MO/39/007: Scientific study and publication of the corpus of Pre-Eyckian panel painting in foreign collections

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MO/40/001: Publication of the scientific catalogue of 15th Century paintings preserved in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

MO/40/002: Development of a trilingual database format for the collection of 19th Century sculpture, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels

MO/40/003: Publication of the scientific catalogue of 15th Century paintings preserved in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

MO/40/004: From « Quadrum » to « Since 45 ». Art in Belgium from 1956 to 1973

MO/40/005: Scientific Study of Late 14th Century to Early 16th Century Anonymous Paintings of the Southern Low Countries preserved at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

MO/40/006: Scientific study of the ‘group Rubens’ in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, with scholarly catalogue and Rubens exhibition

MO/40/007: Les XX & La Libre Esthétique (1884 – 1914). Critical edition and computerization of the Octave Maus Fund

MO/40/008: Scientific Study of Late 14th Century to Early 16th Century Anonymous Paintings of the Southern Low Countries preserved at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

MO/40/009: Scientific study of the paintings of the “Bernard van Orley” group conserved in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, with a view to establishing a scientific catalogue

MO/40/010: Scientific study of the Southern Netherlandish anonymous paintings, late 14th-early 16th century, in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

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MO/40/012: The heritage of Rogier van der Weyden. Painting in Brussels in the late 15th and early 16th centuries

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MO/66/001: From Crisis to War : The Engagement of the Belgian Nobility from 1918 to 1950

MO/66/002: The war is over. The world fair of 1958

MO/66/003: The German diamond policy in World War II in Belgium

MO/66/004: Wars and violence : a comparative approach to two world wars

MO/66/005: Analysis of Belgian policy on the expulsion of illegal immigrants (1875-1975), with particular emphasis on the impact of both world wars

MO/66/006: The Resistance in Flanders during the Second World War

MO/66/007: The social memory of the Belgian colonials (1945-1960)

MO/66/008: The Resistance in Flanders during the second World War

MO/66/009: The social memory of the Belgian former colonials 1945-1960

MO/66/010: Work Experiences of Belgian Women during the Second World War

MO/66/011: General secondary education in Belgium during the Second World War within a comparative perspective

MO/66/012: Women in Colonies. Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 1885-1962

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