Belgian American Educational Foundation
The Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) is an educational charity. It supports the exchange of university students, scientists and scholars between the United States and Belgium. The foundation fosters the higher education of deserving Belgians and Americans through its exchange-fellowship program. Since 1977, Dr. Emile Boulpaep is the president of the BAEF.
History
During World War I, from October 1914, Herbert Hoover organized the Committee for Relief in Belgium (USA) and the Commission for Relief in Belgium (Belgium). After the war, the University Foundation, and on 9 January 1920, the B.A.E.F., were founded with the budget remaining in the hands of the commission after five years of relief work. The Belgian American Educational Foundation became the heir of the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
After World War I, the BAEF invested in land and buildings for the Université libre de Bruxelles (Solbosch campus) and also for rebuilding the library of the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1925, the BAEF founded the Hoover Foundation for the Development of the University of Brussels and the Hoover Foundation for the Development of the University of Leuven. The BAEF started providing scholarships for students study abroad.
Today, the Hoover Foundation is still divided into two entities: one is still dedicated to the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels[1] and the second and biggest one is dedicated to the development of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) primarily in Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels, and the KU Leuven in Leuven.[2]
Notable alumni
- Georges Lemaître
- Emile Boulpaep
- Karel Bossart
- Lotte Brand Philip
- Eva Brems
- Albert Claude
- Alexander De Croo
- Gaston Eyskens
- Mark Eyskens
- Corneille Heymans
- Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers
- Denis Wirtz
- Pierre Wigny
- Paul van Zeeland[3]
- Charles du Bus de Warnaffe[4]
See also
- Emile Francqui
- Herbert Hoover
- Prince Albert Fund
- Olivaint Conference of Belgium
- Paul Dana
- Academic mobility
- American Relief Administration (ARA)
- Commission for Relief in Belgium
- EducationUSA
- Effect of World War I on Children in the United States
- ERASMUS programme (European Union)
- Fulbright Program (United States)
- Hoover Chair
- Jean Cattier
- Felicien Cattier
References
- ^ "Fondation Hoover pour le développement de l'Université libre de Bruxelles". Crossroad Bank for Enterprises.
- ^ "Stichting Hoover voor de ontwikkeling van de Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (K.U.Leuven) en van de Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)". Crossroad Bank for Enterprises.
- ^ "History of the BAEF – BAEF". Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ^ "History of the BAEF – BAEF". Retrieved 2023-05-25.
Further reading
- Bertrams, Kenneth (2015). "The domestic uses of Belgian–American 'mutual understanding': the commission for relief in Belgium educational foundation, 1920–1940". Journal of Transatlantic Studies. 13 (4): 326–343. doi:10.1080/14794012.2015.1088325.
- Huistra, Pieter; Wils, Kaat (2016). "The Exchange Programme of the Belgian American Educational Foundation: An Institutional Perspective on Scientific Persona Formation (1920-1940)". BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review. 131 (4): 112. doi:10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10267.
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- Belgian American Educational Foundation
- Hoover's legacy in Belgium
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