Do you sufficiently STRETCH?
STRETCH is an active international network of key players on event studies. It was set up by Bart Derolez and An Ostyn from VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Goals when stretching
We enjoy reaching out to our current and future partners from event-related study programmes in Europe. STRETCH therefore regularly organizes cross-border events, also called ‘stretches’.
We organize international student project weeks, students and lecturers exchanges, network conferences.
Our second goal is to file information on all the ideas, research insights and projects realized and to share this content with all the participants. Therefore, we create online and offline communication media to encourage a regular flow of two-way input and to mutually discuss and improve our event studies programmes. Below you will find information on all past and future stretches of our network.
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Our events management students study at the following universities:
Past stretches
A first real life conference was foreseen from Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19 March 2020. Due to the corona crisis, this 3-day event could not take place. We created a very challenging programme, though, with behind-the-scenes visits of Antwerp Sportpaleis and Concertgebouw Brugge, talks by Jan Vereecke (co-owner Antwerps Sportpaleis), Bartel Van Iseghem (co-founder and dream designer of MeetMarcel, a multiple award winning Belgian event agency) and others, a neck stretch during the warm-up of Cirque du Soleil athletes and a music stretch with a concert in Concertgebouw Brugge and a meet and greet with composer Daan Janssens.
Fortunately, we managed to create the silver lining of our international network dream during the e-STRETCH getting-to-know-you conference in April 2021 and during the real life conference in March 2022. During this 3-day conference we were able to lay the stepping stones for this first international student project, the SDG Action Festival Kortrijk. We look forward to continuing our international aspirations with the involved partner universities.
Future stretches
Our main goal is to repeat this SDG Action Festival in all the cities of our STRETCH network.
Upcoming festivals will be organized in
Helsinki in spring 24
Breda in spring 25
Are you involved in an events-related programme at one or other university in the world and do you want to be added to our network?
Send an email to info@sdgactionfestival.eu and give some information on your job title, event studies programme, university and faculty.