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2025-26 Competition Open

The Fulbright Commission in Brussels is excited to announce the opening of the Fulbright competition for the 2025-26 academic year! Applications are now open for Belgian and Luxembourgish citizens interested in applying to study, research, or lecture in the United…

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Fulbrighters of 2024-25

The Fulbright Commission in Brussels is proud to announce the 2024-25 Fulbright grantees. Forty-nine Belgian, Luxembourgish, and European (Fulbright Schuman) grantees have been selected for participation in the 2024-25 Fulbright Foreign Student and Visiting Scholar Programs. These grantees will study,…

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Fulbrighters of 2023-24

The Fulbright Commission in Brussels is proud to announce its cohort of 2023-2024 Fulbrighters!…
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Meet&Network with Alexander De Croo

On March 7, 2023, the Fulbright Commission in Brussels hosted a Meet&Network event with Prime Minister Alexander De Croo to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright Program in Belgium….
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Fulbrighters of 2022-23

The Fulbright Commission in Brussels is proud to announce its cohort of 2022-2023 Fulbrighters! This group of Belgian, Luxembourgish, European (via the Fulbright Schuman Program) grantees has been nominated and selected to study, research, or lecture in the United States…

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Fulbrighters of 2021-22

The Fulbright Commission in Brussels is proud to announce its cohort of 2021-2022 Fulbrighters!…
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People-to-People Exchange in a Pandemic

In March 2020, the world came grinding to a halt — and with it, the Fulbright Commission in Brussels. Within a week, the staff of the Fulbright Commission went from planning a seminar and organizing pre-departure orientations to packing up…
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U.S. Grantees Diversity Roundtables

In January 2020, the U.S. Grantees Diversity Roundtables were launched. Two alumni of the Fulbright Belgium Program, Sangeetha Ramakrishna, a former ETA, and Rae Delacruz, a former Fulbright student researcher, led the initiative. The main goal of this initiative is…

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2019 U.S. Grantee Orientation

Enthusiastic – and highly caffeinated – smiles greeted the Royal Library of Belgium as the newest cohort of Fulbright grantees slowly trickled into the building, newcomer jitters in tow, eagerly awaiting their program orientation. After a steady chorus of casual…

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Inside Brussels at the Newly-Renovated Africa Museum

“It was the curse of Leopold,” Siska Genbrugge, an alumna of the Fulbright Program in Belgium and Coordinator of Conservation at Brussels’ Africa Museum, explained to staff members of the Fulbright Commission as she recounted the day before the re-opening…
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IIE Visits Fulbright Commission in Brussels

This spring, the Fulbright Commission in Brussels welcomed two sets of visitors from the Institute of International Education….
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A Farewell to Fulbright

It must have been in the 1980s that I met the first Fulbright guest I had the pleasure to welcome. At that time I was a young assistant at KU Leuven, and since then I have lost count of the…