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Belgium’s official account. Showing how Belgium is #openforbusiness 🇧🇪
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👨🔬 Research by #Belgian scientists from Observatory.be, ULB University and Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ revealed that the cause of unidentified tremors in the earth, measurable worldwide for 9 days, was a 200-metre-high mega tsunami in Greenland. 💪 Or how Belgian #expertise is often part of the answer!


💡 Ghent-based startup Those Vegan Cowboys made cheese of non-animal origin in its laboratory. 👨🔬 Collaborating with Ghent University Research & Wageningen U&R, it developed synthetic casein in 2022. 🌿 An #innovative experiment offering new #sustainable options to lower the carbon footprint!


🏆 🇧🇪 They did it! Belgian Innoptus Solar Team won the SasolSolarChallenge after a 4,000 km race lasting 8 days and which ended in Capetown! 🌞🏁 👏Congratulations to the KU Leuven student team for this impressive testimony of #Belgium's innovative #solarpower #engineering!





🧑🚀 #Belgium's Centre Spatial Liège is expanding its facilities, aiming to double its surface area by 2026. 🛰️ This includes the construction of a new tank for #satellite testing and clean rooms to research on #innovative technologies for the Einstein gravitational wave telescope! 💪


💧⚡ The Belgian Hydrogen Council, with the support of 🇧🇪 Belgium MFA, has launched an interactive map with a comprehensive overview of #hydrogen projects in #Belgium, including details on production, transport and applications! 📲 belgianhydrogencouncil.be/interactive-ma…


🏆 GaultMillauBelgium's #gastronomic guide for 2025 awarded L'air du temps in Eghezée (Sang Hoon Degeimbre) and Boury in Roeselare (Tim Boury) a near-perfect score of 19/20! 💪 Over 1,400 #Belgian restaurants are listed, with 135 new establishments joining the selection this year!



🏆 🇧🇪 #Belgian #rally driver #ThierryNeuville smiles: together with co-pilot #MartijnWydaeghe he can call himself FIA World Rally Championship world champion! 💪 They suffered setbacks but pushed through, race after race. 👏 💐Congratulations! 📷: Hyundai Motorsport / Belga Image



🇧🇪 🇧🇷 Captured on camera by drones swooping through the sky, this video mapping is a demonstration of #Belgian technical knowhow and part of the Belgian economic mission to Brazil led by HRH Princess Astrid! #BEmissionBRA #EmbracingOpenness 🇧🇪 Belgium MFA


❤️🔥Drones capturam o espetacular video mapping no monumento do Cristo Redentor com vista para o Rio de Janeiro, cidade de oportunidades. 🇧🇪🇧🇷 Um local icônico para a Bélgica demonstrar sua expertise em entretenimento durante um momento de amizade belga-brasileira. #BEmissionBRA

🎉✈️ Yesterday, Brussels Airport and Thai Airways celebrated the resumption of daily direct flight between Brussels and Bangkok since the Covid pandemic. 💪Reaffirming #Belgium's strong position as a European gateway for travelers to and from Asia!


🛰️ 2 satellites built in #Belgium by Redwire Space launched for the #Proba3 mission of European Space Agency! 🎯 The goal? To simulate and study artificial solar eclipses. 💪 The onboard coronagraph was developed under the direction of Centre Spatial Liège, the scientific research is done by Observatory.be!



🌒 #Belgian engineer #BramVerbruggen presented his research at European Space Agency: bricks made out of up to 95% #moondust! 🧱 3D printed in 8 minutes, sturdy and protective against radiation, perfect for lunar infrastructure. 🔬 #Innovative research supported by Belspo! #EmbracingOpenness


🇧🇪👩⚕️ World-first #medicalbreakthrough by #Belgian UZ Brussel hospital: frozen testicular tissue successfully reimplanted into a 26-year-old man after 16 years! 💡 The patient underwent chemotherapy as a child but doctors are hopeful that he will be able to produce sperm cells.

