9h30: Academic part
Chair: Ben Craps (VUB)

Introduction
Ms Fadila Laanan, Minister for Research, Brussels Region,

Welcome words from the representatives of the 4 founding universities:
Yvon Englert (Rector, ULB),
Gerard Govers (vice-Rector, KU Leuven),
Caroline Pauwels (Rector, VUB),
Giacomo Bruno (President IRMP, UCLouvain)


Jean-Marie Frère (ULB), BEL Center, current status:  part 1 
Antoine Van Proeyen (KU Leuven), BEL Center, current status: part 2

10:15 - 11:15: Francois Englert:
               From the scientific revolution towards the understanding of Nature
 
11:15 - 11:45: Coffee break

11:45 - 12:15: Thomas Hertog (KU Leuven): Brout and Englert's vision
                on Lemaître's primeval atom in today's fundamental physics

12:15 - 13:45: lunch

13:45 Afternoon session

Chair: Fabio Maltoni (UCLouvain)

13:45 - 14:10: Céline Degrande (UCLouvain) : The future of the H boson

14:15 - 14:40: Petr Tinyakov (ULB): Black holes and dark matter

14:45 - 15:10: Charles Rabideau (VUB): Spacetime from Entanglement