The aim of the Fonds InBev-Baillet Latour, founded in 1974 by Count de Baillet Latour, the administrator of Brasseries Artois from 1947 to 1980, is to encourage services with a high human value, of a mainly scientific, academic or artistic nature, and to reward these with prizes, study grants, opportunities to travel or gifts in cash or in kind, excluding any profit motive and regardless of political, trade union, philosophical or denominational
convictions.

• The Fund has developed various initiatives over the last few years:
  The Inbev-Baillet Latour Health Prize, is the most important scientific prize awarded every year, in Belgium. It rewards applied medical research on a theme chosen in accordance with the Academies of Medicine and the help of the National Fund for Scientific Research.
• The Inbev-Baillet Latour University Chair at the UCL/KUL, set up in 2000. Its aim is to further develop relations between the European Union and Russia. The Fund awards Inbev-Baillet Latour study grants to doctoral candidates who are carrying out scientific research into the field of malting and brewing, research into the relations between the European Union and Russia, and to Belgian students at the Europe College in Bruges and Natolin.

In 2002, the Fund launched a new initiative: The “InBev-Baillet Latour Programme for the Restoration of Belgian Cultural Inheritance”. The Fund had noticed that most of the Belgian cultural projects concerned immobile projects, while there was a great need for initiatives in support of the restoration and preservation of mobile artifacts.