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Heritage as a driver of social impact
Culture in Flanders is dynamic. It’s present in festivals and neighbourhood arts centres, in design studios and culinary traditions, in UNESCO sites and contemporary architecture. It plays a vital role in strengthening identity, social cohesion, and regional development.
Hosting your conference here means engaging with heritage as a living system. Not a static legacy, but a space for dialogue, learning, and shared purpose. It also means collaborating with museums, universities, artists, policymakers, and citizens who see culture as a tool for regeneration and social impact.
A regional vision rooted in shared values
Flanders' approach to culture is grounded in the "Travel to Tomorrow" philosophy, and aligned with Vision 2050 and multiple SDGs (notably SDGs 4, 11, and 17). Cultural vitality is understood not just as a policy area, but as a foundation for resilient communities and inclusive economies. Your conference can contribute to key areas of impact:
- Civic pride and identity: empowering people to engage with their stories and shape the future of their communities
- Social cohesion and inclusion: building bridges across backgrounds, generations, and perspectives
- Creative economy: strengthening the role of heritage and the arts in innovation, employment, and exports
- Sustainable tourism: supporting meaningful and responsible cultural travel
- Education and lifelong learning: enhancing creativity, historical awareness, and critical thinking
- Urban and rural regeneration: using culture to improve quality of life, spatial planning, and place-making
How your conference can create impact
Encourage cultural innovation and exchange
International conferences bring new perspectives to local institutions, enriching practices in museums, archives, arts centres, and education.
Foster inclusion and dialogue
Your conference can help address complex questions around contested heritage, decolonisation, and participatory culture.
Advance sustainable cultural tourism
Events that focus on regenerative models support Flanders’ commitment to tourism that benefits places and people.
Promote interdisciplinary collaboration
Culture often intersects with education, social innovation, digital media, and sustainability. Your conference can build bridges across these fields.
Activate local networks
By involving local stakeholders (from city authorities to cultural organisations) your conference can spark lasting partnerships and regional momentum.
Help shape the future of culture
Organising your conference in Flanders means engaging with a region that values its heritage not just for what it preserves, but for what it makes possible. It’s an opportunity to create impact and help culture flourish as a space for creativity, dialogue, and inclusive transformation.
Read our free e-book on Culture and Heritage
Flanders holds a trump card which not even Paris, London or New York can play. Here you welcome your delegates in the place where Bruegel, Rubens and Van Eyck created their masterpieces. This e-book tells you in 64 compelling pages why you can be assured of a successful conference in Flanders. Not only in Arts & Heritage, but also in dozens of other economic and scientific domains.