Defence Investment Division Web Portal

NATO is located at:

Boulevard Léopold III
1110 Brussels
Access via public transportation (see www.stib.be)

• From BRUSSELS AIRPORT, take bus no. 12 “Brussels City” direction “Bourget”. For your return, take bus no. 12 “Brussels Airport”. (10 minutes)

• From SCHUMAN (European Union neighbourhood), you can take two buses:
• Bus no. 12 “Brussels Airport” direction "Bourget" to the NATO HQ South Gate. For your return, take bus no. 12 “Brussels City” direction “Trône”. (30 minutes)
• Bus no. 21 “MAES” direction "Middelweg" to the NATO HQ North Gate. (40 minutes)

• From GARE CENTRALE, walk to stop "Trône" and take bus no. 12 “Brussels Airport” direction "Bourget" to the NATO HQ South Gate. For your return, take bus no. 12  “Brussels City” direction "Trône". (50 minutes)

• From GARE DU MIDI and from GARE DU NORD, Take metro no. 6 "Elisabeth" direction “Elisabeth”, walk to stop "Trône" and take bus no. 12 “Brussels Airport” direction "Bourget" to the NATO HQ South Gate. For your return, take bus no. 12  “Brussels City” direction "Trône" ans tale metro no. 2 "Simonis" direction "Simonis" (50 minutes).
  
  

Access by car

• For directions, you might try Google Maps or Waze Live Map.
• Please be aware that you will have to park outside NATO HQ and that there is only limited parking space available in NATO´s proximity.

 

​​In order to enter NATO HQ premises, you must have a valid pass.

Please contact the security officer of your national delegation at NATO HQ at least one week in advance to go through the necessary formalities. If you come from a European Union institution, please check with your organization's security officer whether he can take care of this on the basis of a special security agreement with NATO, otherwise contact your national delegation at the HQ.

You must show your ID at the HQ entrance and will receive a pass in exchange.

Please be aware that the International Staff is not responsible for the delivery of your pass.

	Albania Dele​gation	Tel : +32.2.707 2780 Fax: +32.2.707 2783
	Belgian Dele​gation	Tel : +32.2.707 6072 Fax: +32.2.707 6090
	Bulgarian Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707 2903 Fax: +32.2.707 2832
	Canadian Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707 7117 Fax: +32.2.707 7129
	Croatia Dele​gation	Tel : +32.2.707 2463 Fax: +32.2.707 2462
	Czech Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.1138 Fax: +32.2.707.1703
	Danish Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.6134 Fax: +32.2.707.6115
	Estonia Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707 9595 Fax: +32.2.707 9590
	Finnish Mission	Tel : +32.2.706 2111 Fax: +32.2.706 2142
	French Delegation	Tel : +32.2.727.7454 Fax: +32.2.727.7426
	German Delegation	Tel : +32.2.727.7666 Fax: +32.2.726.4948
	Greek Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.6707 Fax: +32.2.726.8030
	Hungarian Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.1750 Fax: +32.2.707.1763
	Iceland Dele​gation	Tel : +32.2.707 5090 Fax: +32.2.707 4531
	Italian Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.6220 Fax: +32.2.707.6259
	Latvian Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707 2037 Fax: +32.2.707 2889
	Lithuanian Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707 2849 Fax: +32.2.707 2850
	Luxembourg Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.3842 Fax: +32.2.726.8900
​	​ Montenegro Joint Delegation	​ Tel : +32.2.707.1069
	Netherlands Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.6611 Fax: +32.2.726.7081
​	​​​​North Macedonia Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.2762 Fax: +32.2.726.2757
	Norwegian Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.6311 Fax: +32.2.726.5630
	Polish Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.1488 Fax: +32.2.728.6359
	Portuguese Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.6409 Fax: +32.2.707.6427
	Romanian Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707 9648 Fax: +32.2.707 9602
	Russian Mission	Tel : +32.2.372 0359 Fax: +32.2.374 3117
	Slovakia Dele​gation	Tel : +32.2.707 2418 Fax: +32.2.707 2742
	Slovenia Dele​gation	Tel : +32.2.707 2769 Fax: +32.2.707 2766
	Spanish Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.6559 Fax: +32.2.726.4740
	Swedish Mission	Tel : +32.2.289 5801 Fax: +32.2.289 5781
	Turkish Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.6822 Fax: +32.2.707.6833
	Ukrainian Mission	Tel : +32.2.707 2724 Fax: +32.2.707 2728
	United Kingdom Delegation	Tel : +32.2.707.7501 Fax: +32.2.707.7596
	United States Mission	Tel : +32.2.724.3215 Fax: +32.2.724.3403

​The website http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/organisation.htm provides further information on NATO Committees and Working Groups.

You might find the following websites helpful:

Military personnel may contact:

For restaurants, try www.resto.be

Please note that the International Staff is not responsible for making your reservation

​NOTE: Using this function does not perform a recovery of your current password but an automatic generation of a new one.

1/ From the DI Portal Login Page, click on Click here if you forgot your password. You will be redirected to the DI Portal Password Recovery Form.​
2/ Type your username generated during your registration and enter the captcha value. Click on Next.
3/ Enter your secret answer when prompted by the system with the question you selected during your registration and the captcha value.
NOTE: The answer is case sensitive and needs to be entered exactly how you submitted it during your registration. Click on Submit.
4/ You will receive a confirmation page that your password was reset. An email will be sent to your address with the newly generated password.

5/ Use the password in the email you received to sign in to the DI Portal. Once you are authenticated, you can change your password in your user account settings.

In this option, you can manage your personal data you entered during your registation, such as your email address, telephone number, work address, etc.
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1/ Click on [your username] on the top right corner and select Manage your Personal Data. You will be redirected to the "My Personnal Data Management Form".​

2/ Update your personal data that you need to modify.
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3/ Once you have made your changes, click on ​Save button at the bottom right of your screen and your changes will be saved.
NOTE: your can remove your profile yourself by clicking on the Remove Profile button.

This menu option allows you to manage alerts you have created for various sub-sites or COI to be notified when documents, events or discussions are uploaded/started on the DI Portal.

1/ Navigate to the sub-site or COI where you wish to create an alert.​

2/ Click on [your username] and select Manage your Alerts. You will be redirected to your list of active alerts for the current sub-site.​​
3/ Click on Add Alert

4/ Choose an element to be alerted of when items are added, changed or removed. Click on Next.
5/ Use the alert creation form to:
          a. give your alert a title
          b. specify the type of changes you wishes to be alerted to
          c. specify the frequency of the alert

6/ Click on OK. The alert will be displayed in your list of active alerts under your user account profile. You will also receive an email notification.
NOTE: After the alert is displayed in your list of active alerts, you can Edit or Delete it.

​This menu option allows you to manage your participation to the Community of Interest your requested to join during your registration. You can either end your participation, edit your level of participation within the COI(s) or request to participate to additional COIs.

1/ Click on [your username] and select Manage your Communities of Interest. You will be directed to the Personal COIs Management Form.
2/ Even COIs for which you are requesting to participate and for which you are already participating will appear in this form.

Click on Request button.

3/ Click on the Select COI button in the menu that appears in the right,

Select the name of the COI you wish add on the COI selection Page,

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and choose your Position in the dropdown menu.
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4​/ Click on Save at the bottom of the menu in order to send your request to that COI's Administrator. You will receive an email confirming your successful request.

​​NOTE: You can end your participation to a COI​​. For this, select a COI that your participate in and click on Remove. You should be member from at least one COI.

​This menu option allows you to reset your password at any time. The steps detailed in this section make up the same process for renewing your password on the date of its expiration.

1/ Click on [your username] and select Change your Password. You will be directed to the DI Portal Password Reset Form.

​​2/ Type your current password and type your new password in both fiels by following the security rule : Minimum 9 ch​aracters of which at least 1 number character, 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter and 1 special character (like *+-%). And type the captcha value. Click on Submit.

3/ You will receive a confirmation that your password was changed successfully. You will also receive an email with your new password inside it.

NOTE: you can also change your Password Question and Pasword Question Answer which be used during the password recovery process.

A search starts at the top right of the screen. If you type a single word (e.g. conference) the system looks for that word in the filename, content or metadata of all files (Office documents or PDF) that you have permissions to access.

If you type multiple words (e.g. conference september) the system will find items where any of the words occur, ranking those that contain more than one of the words higher.
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By default, the system will search in your COI Site, including all sub-sites, except if you search from the DI Portal main page.

The "DI Shared Calendar", accessible through the top links bar, is a collective view displaying all events for the entire DI Portal. Any event inserted in the calendar of a Sub-Site or its COIs will appear here. As a simple user with only Read access, you only have the privilege to view events in the Calendars of the COIs you have access to.

The page defaults to a monthly view which you can change to a daily or weekly view by clicking on the calendar icons in the top right corner.
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To add an event in your Outlook Calendar
​Click on an event name to be redirected to that event's details page.

Click on Alert Me button to setup an alert and ​to receive notifications if the event was modified.

Click on Custom Commands in the top ribbon, then click on Export Event button,

​​You will receive a notification, click on Open file

​Click on Save & Close to add the event inside your Outlook Calendar.

Each Community of Interest within a Sub-Site is equipped with a “Discussion Board” accessible through the left navigation menu.
To access a COI’s discussion board, navigate to that COI’s Home page and click on Discussion Board.
You will be directed to a list of active discussions for that COI.

Click on Add new discussion to start a new discussion.
Fill in the "Subject" field to give your discussion topic a title

and type in the "Body" field to include a message.​​

​When you start to type a "Body" you will have a new menu in the top ribbon which enable Rich Text features in the FORMAT TEXT​ tab. ​If you wish to attach a document in the discussion, click on the INSERT tab.

To post a reply to an existing discussion, click on the discussion topic in the list of discussions.
Then, click on Reply to the right of the message.