Brussels Studies Institute (BSI)

Thesis Award 2025 Ceremony

The Brussels Studies Institute is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the BSI Thesis Award 2025. Launched in January 2025, the BSI will, as every year, reward an outstanding Master’s thesis on Brussels.

This year, we received 15 applications, which were evaluated by a jury of academic experts:

1. Sofia Alonso, The Cinderella Effect: Gender, Mobility & Access to the Night in Brussels
   Master in Urban Studies (ULB/VUB)
2. Anna-Lena Ball, The Temptation of the Temporary: How professionalized nonprofits navigate and shape the changing temporary use scene in Brussels
   Master in Urban Studies (VUB/ULB)
3. Yael Charlet, La mort dans nos villes. Un lieu funéraire oecuménique pour Bruxelles
   Master en Architecture (UCLouvain)
4. Katia De Groot, Van verbinding naar vooruitgang? De rol van het lokaal overlegplatform in het Brusselse gelijke onderwijskansennetwerk
   Master in het overheidsmanagement en -beleid (KU Leuven)
5. Safaa El Had, Réinventer la Ville : Le projet Good Move de Bruxelles à l’épreuve de l’éthique urbaine. Analyse d’une politique publique au prisme des éthiques conséquentialiste et déontologique
   Master en Sciences Politiques (ULB)
6. Brent Huygh, ‘Tegen de stroom in’: de Brusselse toegangswegen in de 18de eeuw
   Master en Histoire (VUB)
7. Imane Huyghebaert, Modern Material Remains. A Salvaging Story
   Master of Social and Cultural Anthropology (KU Leuven)
8. Eglantine Jacobs, Architecture et santé mentale : comment apporter un soutien aux personnes souffrant de troubles mentaux via l’architecture des centres de jour et des lieux de nuits
   Master en Architecture (UCLouvain)
9. Bart Jansen, Politicization and Security Policy: Analyzing the agendasetting of security topics in the Parliament of the Brussels Capital Region after the Sixth State Reform (2014-2019)
   Master en Sciences Politiques (ULB)
10. Marie Lauwereins, Les perceptions des dendromicrohabitats par le public dans les parcs urbains. Une étude interprétative en Région Bruxelles-Capitale dans le bois du Laerbeek et le parc Roi Baudouin
    Master en Sciences et Gestion de l’Environnement (ULB)
11. Lucas Lyko, Hunting in a Pack? An interrogation of the development of MaaS in Brussels through a normative claim to publicness
    Master in Urban Studies (ULB/VUB)
12. Mégane Melery, Au-delà de l’adaptabilité : une architecture pour la liberté autistique
    Master en Architecture (UC Louvain)
13. Irene Midttun, Carefully Arranging the Blue Boxes. (Field) Notes on Lived Multiculturalism in Colignon’s Neighbourhood Shops
    Master in Urban Studies (ULB/VUB)
14. Elliot Papazahariakis, Concrete Dreams: Migration, Construction Work and Agency
    Master in Urban Studies (ULB/VUB)
15. Gomaar Van Reybrouck Van Gelder, The Political Imperative of Public Space – Public sphere and space in the Brussels Capital Region
    Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen (KU Leuven)

Following a double evaluation, one Master’s thesis was selected to win the BSI Thesis Award 2025. The Brussels Studies Institute will announce the laureate, who will receive a €2,000 prize, at the award ceremony.

Join us on 6 November 2025 from 5:30 pm at the Brussels City Museum.

The award ceremony will be preceded by a guided tour of the Brussels City Museum and will conclude with a convivial drink.

The event is free of charge, but registration is required