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The Belgian American Educational Foundation or BAEF is an independent philanthropy which supports the exchange of university students, scientists and scholars between the United States and Belgium. The foundation is engaged in fostering the higher education of deserving Belgians and Americans through its exchange fellowship program.
History
During World War I, from October 1914, Herbert Hoover organized the Commission for Relief in Belgium. After the war, the University Foundation, and on 9 January 1920, the B.A.E.F., were founded with the budget remaining in the hands of the Commission after five years of relief work. The Belgian American Educational Foundation became the heir of the Commission for Relief in Belgium. Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul...
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a world-famous mining engineer, and humanitarian administrator. ...
The Belgian University Foundation (French: Fondation Universitaire, Dutch: Universitaire Stichting) was founded in 1920. ...
January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
After World War I, the BAEF invested in land and buildings for the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Solbosch campus) and also for rebuilding the library of the University of Louvain-Leuven. In 1925, the BAEF founded the Hoover Foundation for the Development of the University of Brussels and the Hoover Foundation for the Development of the University of Leuven. The Université Libre de Bruxelles (or ULB) is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. ...
The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known as UCL, is Belgiums largest French-speaking university. ...
1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Notable alumni Dr. Corneille Jean François Heymans (March 28, 1892 - July 18, 1968) was a Belgian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for for showing how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain. ...
Albert Claude (August 24, 1899 – May 22, 1983) was a Belgian biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. ...
Gaston Eyskens (April 1, 1905 - January 3, 1988) was a Belgian economist, Christian Democratic politician, and statesman. ...
See also Emile Francqui ( Brussels, 25 June 1863 - Brussels, 1 November 1935) was a Belgian soldier, diplomat and business man. ...
Academic mobility refers to students and teachers in higher education moving to another institution inside or outside their own country to study or teach for a limited time. ...
American Relief Administration was an American relief mission to Europe and later Soviet Russia after World War I. Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States, was the program director. ...
The Fulbright Program is a program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships and Fulbright Scholarships), founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright, and sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and by governments in other countries. ...
The ERASMUS programme was established in 1987 and forms a major part of the European Union Socrates II programme. ...
External links - Belgian American Educational Foundation
- Hoover's legacy in Belgium
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