TheBelgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) is aneducational charity. It supports the exchange of university students, scientists and scholars between theUnited States andBelgium. The foundation fosters the higher education of deserving Belgians and Americans through its exchange-fellowship program. Since 1977, Dr.Emile Boulpaep is the president of the BAEF.
DuringWorld War I, from October 1914,Herbert Hoover organized theCommittee for Relief in Belgium (USA) and theCommission for Relief in Belgium (Belgium). After the war, theUniversity Foundation, and on 9 January 1920, the B.A.E.F., were founded with the budget remaining in the hands of the commission after five years of relief work. TheBelgian American Educational Foundation became the heir of the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
After World War I, the BAEF invested in land and buildings for theUniversité libre de Bruxelles (Solbosch/Solbos campus) and also for rebuilding the library of theCatholic University of Leuven. In 1925, the BAEF founded theHoover Foundation for the Development of the University of Brussels and theHoover Foundation for the Development of the University of Leuven. The BAEF started providing scholarships for students study abroad.
Today, the Hoover Foundation is still divided into two entities: one is still dedicated to theUniversité libre de Bruxelles (ULB) andVrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) inBrussels[1] and the second and biggest one is dedicated to the development of theUniversity of Louvain (UCLouvain) primarily inLouvain-la-Neuve and Brussels, and theKU Leuven inLeuven.[2]
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