The Knowledge Economy Network (KEN) has presented Luc Van den Brande, chairman, and Erik Jacquemyn, Chief Executive Officer of Technopolis®, the Flemish Science Centre (Mechelen, Belgium), with the “Award of Excellence”. The award stands for the excellent way in which Technopolis® communicates science and technology to young and old, especially in view of its organisation of the Science Centre World Summit 2014. It is an acknowledgement of the original way in which Technopolis® reaches out to an international public by means of initiatives focusing on science and technology. The Science Centre World Summit 2014, organised by Technopolis®, was prominently mentioned during the award ceremony which was held during the annual KEN Forum by the end of last year. Erik Jacquemyn, Chief Executive Officer of Technopolis® and organiser of the Science Centre World Summit 2014: “It pleases me tremendously to accept this award. My co-workers and I have done our utmost best in the past few years to write the success story which Technopolis® is.”