Numerous official bodies (e.g. the Federal Public wo Services), scientific institutions and almost all universities of the country accepted the invitation. The researchers of RBINS could welcome almost 100 external participants rom around 20 institutions. The Universities of Liège and Leuven, the National nstitute of Criminalistics and Criminology, the Royal Museum for Central Africa, sent particularly large delegations. No less than 57 posters presented the Institute and its research activities; participants had been given the opportunity to register for 22 guided tours hrough the labs and the collections’ storage rooms. The program of the guided tours has proven to be very seducing; some groups got three times more visitors than foreseen. The posters were also continuously visited and discussed all along the day. The participants had to make a choice between different possibilities in the program, which caused sometimes understandable regrets.