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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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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…
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2019 Pre-Departure Orientation

On 11 June 2019, the U.S. Embassy to Belgium hosted the annual Fulbright Pre-Departure Orientation. The annual event is attended by outgoing Belgian, Luxembourgish, and European Fulbright grantees who are preparing to leave for the United States in the coming…
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U.S. Grantee Orientation 2018

Last week the Fulbright Commission welcomed twenty-two 2018-2019 American Fulbright grantees to Belgium and Luxembourg to the Royal Library for U.S. Grantee Orientation. This annual event brings together newly-arrived Fulbrighters for a logistical and cultural introduction to life in Belgium…

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Welcoming New Fulbright Program Officer

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Fulbright Alum Co-Publishes WWI Book

Fulbright Belgium is proud to announce the upcoming revised and adapted translation of a book written by August Thiry and co-published by alum Wim Coudenys. King Albert’s Heroes recounts the thrilling history of the Belgian army’s first unit of armored…