Last year, mathematicians worldwide were stunned – as were many non-mathematicians – when the US-based Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced that it would award five prizes of $3 million each to honour the world’s best mathematicians and support their endeavours. The laureates will be presented...

About 50 organisations and companies in Belgium have joined together to form the new Cyber Security Coalition. The aim of the partnership is to fight against the growing problem of cybercrime across the country. Computer crime costs the Belgian economy about €3.5 billion euros annually, or more...

Education minister Hilde Crevits has announced the precise rises in the enrolment fees for higher education. The raise has been the subject of much debate, but the exact amount was not known until now. For students without a scholarship, the enrolment will increase by almost €270, from €620 to €890...

Five design teams competing for the contract to design a new headquarters for the Flemish public broadcaster VRT have been shortlisted by the office of the Flemish official architect. The five are: a temporary consortium of Flemish architects evr, Doorzon, Denis Dujardin and vylder vinck taillieu;...

A French fighter jet intercepted a Brussels Airlines flight after contact with the cockpit was suddenly broken. The incident was in June, but has only now become known. The Airbus A319 Brussels Airlines flight was bringing holiday-goers from Lanzarote to Brussels Airport in late June. While the...

Employees who show up to work under the influence of alcohol should be fired after three times, says Karel Van Eetvelt, CEO of the Belgian employers' organisation Unizo. According to a study by Unizo, one in three employers in Belgium has dealt with alcohol abuse in the workplace in the past 5...

The new federal minister of public health, Maggie De Block, has appointed doctor Erika Vlieghe as the national Ebola co-ordinator. Vlieghe is the head of the Tropical Diseases department at Antwerp University Hospital. Vlieghe will lead a team in the co-ordination of a national approach in dealing...

Ten thousand volunteers carried lit torches over a distance of 84 kilometres on Friday, marking what once was a frontier of destruction. International headlines over the weekend were filled with praise and admiration for what is so far the most impressive of Belgium’s commemorations of the First...

About one-quarter of the CO2 and fine particulate matter emitted by traffic in Brussels comes from freight vehicles, write La Libre Belgique and Le Soir , based on a report from the Brussels Studies Institute (BSI). The researchers conclude that freight vehicles, which currently represent 14% of...

About one-fifth of the population of Brussels is made up of unemployed job-seekers. Among young people, that number is as high as one-third, according to The Brussels Observatory for Health and Social Welfare’s annual report on unemployment and income in the European capital. The report shows that...