The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (RAOS) (French: Académie royale des sciences d'outre-mer (ARSOM); Dutch: Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen (KAOW)) is a Belgian federal academy that contributes to the progress of scientific knowledge about overseas regions. It is located in Uccle, Brussels and is one of Belgium's numerous academies.[1]
The academy was founded in 1928 as the Royal Belgian Colonial Institute (Institut royal colonial belge). It was renamed in 1954 as the Royal Academy of Colonial Sciences (Académie royale des sciences coloniales). Its interests were initially restricted to the Belgian colonial empire and particularly the Belgian Congo until decolonisation. In 1959, it was renamed the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences (Académie royale des sciences d'outre-mer) and broadened its geographical remit to include Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania. The academy organises a wide range of activities, including publications, academic conferences, and annual competitions.
The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences is divided into three Sections:
Section of Human Sciences
Section of Natural and Medical Sciences
Section of Technical Sciences
Competitions, scholarships and prizesedit
The Academy organizes yearly competitions with specific topics for each of its three Sections. Scholarships are also granted every year as part of the Floribert Jurion [fr] Fund, which aim is to contribute to the training of future agricultural engineers or veterinary surgeons by giving them the opportunity to go for a training period in a developing country.
Finally the Academy awards the following three-year prizes:
The Lucien Cahen Prize for Geology (2012).
The Yola Verhasselt Prize for Tropical Geography (2013).
The Fernand Suykens Prize for the study of ports (2013).
The Jean-Jacques and Berthe Symoens Prize for Tropical Limnology (2014).
^"Historical overview | Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences". www.kaowarsom.be. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
^Joanne Coyle Dauphin (1965). "Belgian Centers of Documentation and Research on Africa". African Studies Bulletin. 8 (3): 21–39. doi:10.2307/522935. JSTOR 522935. Academie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer (ARSOM)
External linksedit
Media related to Académie royale des sciences d'outre-mer at Wikimedia Commons
Official website
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