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The Gewina–Descartes–Huygens Thesis Prize recognizes outstanding master’s theses in the history of science and universities.

Valentine Delrue, a historian of science, has been selected for SciMingo’s Flemish PhD Cup 2026.

'Paradise Lost?' takes visitors back to the 19th century, a period of groundbreaking discoveries, exotic plants and visionary architecture, paying tribute to the architect Alphonse Balat.

The Solar Physics and Space Weather Department of the Royal Observatory of Belgium opens its doors once a month!

Discover the Collège Belgique program of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium for September–December 2026.

In a new episode of the podcast 'Karakter. Tijdschrift van Wetenschap', historian Jolien Gijbels (VUB) explores our ideas about maternal love.

A full-time PhD position on anti-mathematism and anti-abstractionism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Science historian Steven Vanden Broecke (Ghent University) tells us more about the history of astrology.

A joint project between the SHOC Research Group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Department of History at the University of Antwerp is looking for two PhD candidates to conduct research on the history of midwives in Belgium and the Belgian Congo.

2 PhD positions in a research project on early modern astronomical culture in the Habsburg Netherlands at the Sarton Centre for History of Science and Humanities (Ghent University) and research group Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU) (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).