Fondation Ovide Decroly

Founded in 2007, Fondation Ovide Decroly is a foundation based in Uccle, Belgium working on education, science & research, heritage.

The Fondation Ovide Decroly is a Belgian non-profit foundation based in Uccle, Brussels. Created in 2007 and governed by statutes filed in 2016, it aims to promote the work of Dr Ovide Decroly, a physician and pioneer of the New Education movement, by funding or carrying out scientific research in the fields Decroly worked in. It supports research through study grants and prizes, and manages the scientific, pedagogical and archival heritage of Decroly through the Centre d'études decrolyennes. That centre holds a library of old and modern works on education and social sciences, which is free to access and loan, with visits available on request. The foundation works with the Decroly school community and is a member of the Réseau Héloïse network of European pedagogical institutions.