Young Researchers Days IX could not have been possible without the following people and organisations:
Joris Vandendriessche and the members of the NCLHPhS, in particular Kenneth Bertrams, Steffen Ducheyne, Steven Vanden Broecke and Maarten Van Dyck
Maarten Langhendries and Bestor.be
Pieter Adriaens, Tim Debroyer, Lore Delahaye, Rik Ouwerkerk and the Leuven Centre for Health Humanities
The mission of the National Committee, as stipulated in a Royal Decree of 2 April 1979, is to promote and coordinate research activities on Logic, History and Philosophy of Science in Belgium, and to secure the international representation of Belgian scholarship in the International Council of Scientific Unions.
The main goals of the National Committee are:
(1) to represent Belgian scholarship on the international level by being present as a member or spokesperson with international organisations (IUHPS/DHST and IUHPS/DMPLS, European Society of History of Science)
(2) to coordinate Belgian scholarship by setting up collaborations and joint projects with other institutions
(3) to promote the integration of historical and philosophical studies of science
(4) to promote general interest in the history of (Belgian) science, and to disseminate the results of contemporary scholarship to a wider audience
Since 2008, the National Committee coordinates the Bestor project - Belgian Science and Technology Online Resources - a bilingual online database of the Belgian Science for the last three centuries.
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