About the
BNCPAP

The Belgian National Committee for Pure and Applied Physics (or BNCPAP) is affiliated to and mandated by the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB). It is the Belgian Liaison to IUPAP, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

The Mandate is:

The Belgian National Committee for Pure and Applied Physics has been created by the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB). It contributes to the promotion and coordination of Belgian activities that relate to Pure and Applied Physics.

At the international level it ensures Belgium’s representation in IUPAP, the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics.

The mission of IUPAP is to assist in the worldwide development of physics, to foster international cooperation in physics, and to help in the application of physics toward solving problems of concern to humanity.

IUPAP carries out this mission by sponsoring international meetings, fostering communications and publications,encouraging research and education, fostering the free circulation of scientists, promoting international agreements on symbols, units and nomenclature and cooperating with other organizations on disciplinary and interdisciplinary problems.

In order to reach those goals, IUPAP has created a series of scientific commissions covering most of the disciplines of physics: