Taking action for inclusion and diversity?
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Looking for inspiration? Here, you'll find a selection of training sessions, events, museums best practices from museums, helpfull tools, as well as the contacts of our collaborators from the associative world.

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Aequal consulting

Aequal consulting is a team DEI strategists genuinely committed to creating welcoming work environments through trainings.

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Artizest

Artizest is a French expert specialised on particapatory approaches and design thinking.

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Kuumba

The Flemish-African house Kuumba is a place where African cultures and Flemish culture come together for exchange, dialogue and entertainment.

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Through Art We Care

Through Art We Care works on developping on a more caring art and an artful care to connect institutions with different publics. They are specialised in palliative patient.

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Lasso

Lasso is a association working with co-creation and inclusive practices.

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Black speaks Back (BsB)

Black speaks Back (BsB) is a project that aims to discuss the various issues of the African diaspora in Belgium. BsB aims to show the plurality between black Belgians and Dutch by deconstructing images and stereotypes.

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Eqla

Eqla offers services, advice and support to meet the needs and requirements of blind and partially-sighted people.

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RABKO

RABKO is a bilingual network for dialogue and reflection, a platform for advice and information, and a point of contact for arts and culture in Brussels.

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L'architecture qui dégenre

L'architecture qui dégenre is a platform that questions the dominant order, builds equality and edifies optimism. The association is a space for sharing practices and knowledge related to architectural, artistic and urban equality.

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Arts et culture

Arts et culture offers guided tours and sign language interpreting (lsfb and vgt) in the artistic and cultural fields.

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Bye bye binary

Bye bye binary is a collective working to debinarise writing. Its members design typographic glyphs with the aim of proposing a new, more fluid form of ‘inclusive writing’.

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HumanInsight

HumanInsight offers human resources training and consultancy in the areas of leadership, change, diversity and inclusion, and talent and performance.

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Mémoire Coloniale

The aims of Mémoire Coloniale are to educate, raise awareness and provide information, to fight and demand action on colonial and decolonial issues.

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Bamko

The majority of Bamko's members are Afro-descendant women. Bamko is open to anyone interested in learning more about interculturality, intersectionality, racism, feminism and ecology.

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Access and go

AccessAndGo-ABP works on a daily basis to improve accessibility in our society and support people with reduced mobility (PRMs) at every stage of their lives.

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Garance

Garance is a non-profit organisation that fights against gender-based violence through primary prevention: acting before violence occurs so that it does not happen or does not exist.

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ROSA

ROSA is a national campaign that fights against all forms of sexism and campaigns for the involvement of women in social movements.

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Le poisson sans bicyclette

Le poisson sans bicyclette is a feminist association offering socio-cultural events.

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Le 8e jour

Le 8e jour is a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting people with disabilities to live independently in our community.

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Esenca

Esenca defines itself as the trade union for people with disabilities and takes concrete action to assert their rights.

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Access-i

Access-i's mission is to provide information on the accessibility of places open to the public in Wallonia and Brussels.

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Ella Global Community

Ella global community is an international organisation dedicated to improving the lives of queer women and non-binary people from all walks of life and all over the world.

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Institute for gender equality

The institute aims to protect and promote gender equality, including equality between women and men, thereby contributing to an inclusive society.

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Unia

Unia is an independent public institution that promotes equality and combats discrimination.

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Visite particulière

The aim of the association is to create a group of opinion leaders on cultural matters in Brussels, to encourage contact between the LGBTQI+ public and Brussels' cultural operators, and to build bridges between the cultural, economic and tourist sectors in our Region.

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L-Tour

L-Tour organizes lesbian and rainbow tours and events to promote the history (herstory and history) of Brussels’ LGBTQI+ communities starting from Brussels, via lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people and associations.

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MRAX

Founded after the Second World War, MRAX is now a non-profit organisation that fights racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia. It strives for a pluralist, egalitarian and just society.

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Xeno

Xeno is a travelling platform and practical research laboratory for intersectional feminism and BIPOC, queer and non-binary issues.

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Passe Muraille

A suitable environment meets everyone's needs... Passe Muraille is your partner in a Global Access approach to help you make your services accessible.

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Wetsi art gallery

Space for exhibitions and artistic encounters. Its founder, Anne Wetsi Mpoma, selects universes that can be seen as counter-narratives to the erasure or invisibilisation of artists of African descent in the contemporary art world. The objectives are to build bridges between institutions and diverse audiences.

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Tels Quels

The aim of Tels Quels asbl is to defend and protect the rights and freedoms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQIA+), and to provide information on sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression and variations in sexual characteristics.

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RainbowHouse

The Rainbowhouse Brussels is home to various French and Dutch speaking LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, etc.) associations in the Brussels area.

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BePax

BePax is an association for lifelong learning whose mission is to contribute to peace and combat social inequalities caused by racism, as well as other factors interacting with racism. It encourages the creation of alliances with citizens and political leaders so that everyone can become an agent of change, equality and peace.

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Article 27

The mission of Article 27 is to raise awareness and facilitate cultural participation for anyone in a difficult social and/or economic situation.

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Neutrinet

This association offers a critical view of the internet and aims to make it more ethical and sustainable.

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Info Sourds BXL

The association aims to promote the inclusion and independence of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Brussels.

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PHARE

The PHARE service provides information, advice and financial assistance to disabled people in the Brussels Region.

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L'Autre lieu

L'Autre lieu is an association for people interested in or affected by mental health problems.

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Oep Vadrouille

Oep Vadrouille was created in 2020 through the union of various organisations active in the field of mental health. The aim of this initiative is to pool the activities already carried out by the member organisations in order to offer a wider range of activities to their audiences.

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Circuit

Circuit is a place of links for the Centre de Santé mentale Antonin Artaud asbl, which is first and foremost a place for sharing and exchanging ideas. They work in partnership with other initiatives that enable them to go and see an opera at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, go to the cinema, visit a museum or simply go for a walk!

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Axcent

Axcent promotes dialogue between and within religious and convictional communities in Brussels.

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APRE Services

APRE SERVICES has an essential objective: to offer useful and rewarding work to people with disabilities who do not meet the expectations of the traditional employment market, but who have undeniable skills and a real desire to work.

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Arts et Alpha

Arts et Alpha promotes cultural practices in literacy and French as a foreign language.

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TIP (transgender infopunt)

The transgender infopunt is a directory of answers to your questions on trans* issues.

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Demos

Demos is a research centre dealing with the subjects of participation in democracy through the sectors of culture, youth work and sport.

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Culture et Démocratie

Culture & Démocratie is a platform for reflection, observation, awareness-raising and exchange on the links between culture and democracy.

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Foyer

Foyer works to build a more inclusive and intercultural world and a society where everyone is respected.

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AWSA-Be

Arab women's solidarity association- Belgium is a lay, mixed association that campaigns for the promotion of the rights of women from the Arab world in their home and host countries.

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BelRefugees

BELRefugees aims to mobilise and unite the energies of citizens and associations to transform societal representations and attitudes towards people who migrate.

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Black History Month Belgium

Black History Month Belgium aims to bring together Black and Afrodescendant communities in Belgium, and create spaces of solidarity to contribute to the education, entertainment and care of people who are members of these communities.

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Le Syndicat des immenses

The Syndicat des immenses makes demands, defends the rights of immenses (IIndividu dans une Merde Matérielle Énorme mais Non Sans Exigences), intervenes regularly in the public arena and takes part in numerous events.

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Success DiverStory

Success DiverStory aims to raise awareness to combat racism and discrimination by changing perceptions through the presentation of role models.

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Globe Aroma

Globe Aroma is an artistic work and meeting place that offers space, time and a network to artists, co-creators and art enthusiasts who have (had) a background as newcomers.

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FMDO

FMDO (Federation of Global and Democratic Organisations) connects and empowers people in the super-diverse society of today and tomorrow.

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The Biennale of Women In Art

Women In Art wishes to promote the values and cultural diversity of women artists to the general public but also to artistic and cultural institutions.

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Musea Bekennen Kleur

The objective of Musea Bekennen Kleur is to permanently unite heritage institutions in their efforts to embed diversity and inclusion in the DNA of the heritage sector.

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Open Museum

A committed initiative by Brussels Museums

Galerie du Roi, 15
1000 Brussels

+32 (0) 2 512 77 80 (Mon-Thurs)

[email protected]

The aim of this initiative is to raise awareness of the importance of inclusion and participation of under-represented groups in the 125+ museums in the Brussels Museums network.