Belgian Federal Science Policy Office

The Federal Public Planning Service Science Policy or Belgian Science Policy Office, Federal Science Policy, known by the acronym BELSPO, is the federal government body responsible for research policy in Belgium. It designs and implements research programmes and networks and manages the participation of Belgium in European and international organisations. BELSPO supervises Belgian federal scientific organisations. Formal political and administrative coordination of the Belgian science policy was begun with the creation of the first government organisations in 1959.