The “Interuniversity Attraction Poles” (IAP) Programme aims to provide support for teams of excellence in basic research that belong to Belgium’s various (linguistic) Communities. These teams work as part of a network in order to increase their joint contribution to general scientific advances and, where applicable, to international scientific networks.

Since 1987 the IAP progamme has been implemented in five year phases. The ongoing IAP phase-VII (2012-2017) contains 44 networks implicating 324 research teams (250 Belgian teams and 74 European partners) and spans a wide variety of research fields in the life sciences, exact and applied sciences and the human sciences.

The impact of the IAP on basic research is considerable. The programme represents some 300 researchers (full-time-equivalents) paid with IAP funds and over 2 000 publications each year within the programme as a whole.

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