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The school is supported by the Royal Musea of Art and History (KMKG-MRAH), funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy. It is a Greek non-profit foundation, through which archaeology staff of Belgian universities can participate in archaeological research in Greece. Links below refer to our supporters and affiliated universities.

The Belgian Embassy in Athens has always supported the school in every possible way. The embassy website also redirects to a webpage, under which all Belgian interest in Greece is reflected.

Also the Greek Embassy in Brussels collaborates with us, in conference activities, press announcements and by way of the Hellenic Circle.

VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): At the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the Mediterranean Archaeological Research Institute or MARI is a research centre within the department of Art Sciences and Archaeology and the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy.

The ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles) hosts the "centre de recherches archéologiques or CReA". It was founded in 2001. The Centre is a department of the Faculty of Philosophie et Lettres, bringing together approximately 50 teachers and researchers from different faculties of the ULB. Twenty-five postgraduates are supervised through the Centre and there are five postdoctoral researchers. The CReA is also an archaeological support unit. In this respect it offers the services of an archaeological technician, a paleoenvironmentalist, and two computer-aided designers. It also includes several externally funded contract researchers, benefiting from efficient collaboration developed with the regional authorities.

The KULeuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) has an archaeological department, of which a number of initiatives deserve some particular attention for the Aegean, most impressively the Sagalassos projects. An initiative called LARS (Leuven Archaeological Research Seminar) invites to archaeology related lectures. Linked to the KULeuven is also the CAS (Center for Archaeological Sciences).

UCL (Université catholique de Louvain): The UCL hosts, apart from an archaeological department with wide interest and broad coverage of methodologies and geography, the AEGIS group, which is an acronym for Aegean Interdisciplinary Studies. This group is part of CEMA (Center for the Study of Ancient Worlds (CEMA), itself part of INCAL – the Institute of Civilizations, Arts and Letters. AEGIS also publishes.

Both KUL and UCL participate in the excavation project of Sissi, aka SARPEDON, under direction of respectively Prof. J. Driessen and Prof. I. Schoep.

ULG (Université de Liège): The archaeology department of this university coordinates and co-edites the well known AEGAEUM series, some of which are available in pdf format now (AEGAEUM 1,5 and 7) as well as Kernos. ULg also host LIMA, or the Laboratoire d'Infographie et Multimédia pour l'Histoire de l'Art et l'Archéologie. A team, under direction of Prof. R. Laffineur from the ULG excavates on the Thorikos project. Prof. V. Pirenne is the scientific correspondent of Kernos of which the concise indexes of the Epigraphic Bulletin are now available on website (open access) and will be updated every year.

UG (Universiteit Gent): The university of Gent works on a different zone of the Thorikos project, under direction of Prof. R. Docter. This university has a Research Unit Classical Archaeology and History of Art, which has projects in Pessinus Turkey, Thorikos near Athens, the Potenza Valley in Italy and Carthage in Tunesia. They also have an expertise research unit for pre- and protohistory.

FUNDP (Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur): Although the member of this university in our school is affiliated to the Département de Langues et Littératures Classiques, this university has an archaeology department as well.