Events

IGLO Summer reception 2025
JUL
Wed
02
14:30 - 18:00

Starts in 4 weeks from now

Location

Palais des Académies, Brussels

Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Programmes
Horizon Europe

The Informal Group of RTD Liaison Offices in Brussels (IGLO) is organising its annual summer reception on Wednesday 2 July 2025 from 15:00-18:00 (doors open at 14:30) in Brussels. 

Here is the programme:

  • Welcome
  • Keynote speech from Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation)
  • IGLO highlights
  • Session on the role of IGLO in the European Research Area + keynote by Magda de Carli (Head of Unit and Deputy Director for ERA, Spreading Excellence and Research Careers at DG RTD)
  • IGLO Chair handover
  • Networking cocktail reception

You can find more details and register here until 24 June 2025.

 

IGLO is an informal association of Brussels-based non-profit research and development liaison offices. It aims to facilitate and enhance interaction, information exchange and cooperation between IGLO members (such as NCP Flanders), national research systems and European institutions related to EU RTD. 

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Testimonial

image of Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe

Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe

The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.