The Brussels Studies Institute (BSI) was born in 2012 from the desire of academic circles to work together to better understand and make known the complexity of the Brussels reality to researchers but also to field actors and the general public.
The BSI is a unique partnership around the theme of urban knowledge.
It supports scientific research in Brussels and encourages an integrated, multilingual and multidisciplinary approach to it.
The BSI is involved in all components of the knowledge chain in and for Brussels: from bringing stakeholders together to develop integrated knowledge, to disseminating and promoting it.
To carry out its activities, the BSI invariably mobilizes teams of researchers with diverse profiles (in terms of universities, disciplines, languages) to analyse an urban/metropolitan societal challenge or problem from different angles, with a common reference framework. Not only does this multi-perspective approach enrich the content produced, but it also makes it possible to extend the dissemination of results by mobilizing different networks:
The BSI leads a research ecosystem on Brussels

The BSI works hand in hand with its two sister organizations: the electronic journal Brussels Studies and the Brussels Academy, an urban and civic university.
The BSI is the privileged partner of the Brussels urban studies networks: Ebxl (ULB), BCUS (VUB), l'IRIB (USL-B), LUSI (KUL) and Louvain4city (UCLouvain).

The BSI brings together 57 research centres linked to eight higher education institutions, representing more than 350 researchers from a wide range of disciplines.
Key Steps
In the creation of the BSI