The Permanent Platform of Atomium Culture, was launched publicly by the former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and by Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini, currently Honorary President and President of AC, on the 27 November 2009 at the European Parliament in Brussels.

The Permanent Platform of Atomium Culture brings together some of the most authoritative universities, newspapers and businesses in Europe in the first intersectoral platform for the selection (universities), knowledge transfer (universities-businesses) and dissemination (universities-businesses-newspapers) of leading European research, to increase the movement of knowledge: across borders, across sectors and to the public at large.

To succeed in its Mission, today the Permanent Platform of AC has the strongest active network of leading European newspapers as well as one of the most important active networks of leading European Universities and Businesses.

The platform brings together 26 universities, over one hundred thousand researchers, over one million students, seventeen newspapers, around ten million European readers per day, and some of the most important businesses in Europe with a total turnover of 720 Billion Euros.

The Permanent Platform of Atomium Culture was founded on the assumption that the active participation and cooperation between the core pillars of civil society is necessary for the development of a real knowledge society that depends for its growth on the production of new knowledge and its transmission through education (universities), its development and use through new industrial processes (businesses) and its dissemination through reliable information (newspapers).

Its activities are based on the exchange and transfer of knowledge between the different sectors and the different institutions engaged in the platform in order to bridge communication gaps and keep civil society informed of breakthroughs in scientific research. The activities are divided into three main areas:

• Area of Dissemination
• Area of Exchange
• Area of Knowledge Transfer

Atomium Culture is organised under the Law of Belgium as an International Non-Profit Organisation (Association International Sans But Lucratif).

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