Project "Facts, Figures and Research in local Education Policy making"; is coordinated by BAOBAB vzw, the executive body for the General Education Policy of the city of Antwerp. The project falls under the call, "Evidence-based policy and practice: call for proposals to develop networks of knowledge brokerage initiatives EAC/26/2009".
Objectives of the project to be reached at the end of 2010 are:

• Network to share experiences and examples of good practice in applying facts, figures and research in local Education Policy making.
• Improve the exchange of data between researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in order to realize the evidence-based policy in Education
• Define a structured method to guide study visits between the cities. This structure could for example take the form of a peer review methodology