Leisure & Events

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Leisure
  • Go On! The BUas Approach to Esports Education

    Game On! The BUas Approach to Esports Education

    Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) is a pioneer in esports education. Gaming is a digital form of leisure and a huge industry. There are...

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  • Science Fiction

    Science Fiction

    How can we think outside, above and beyond the box?

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  • Podcast: What to learn from Live Music & Dance Events industry?

    Podcast: What to learn from Live Music & Dance Events industry?

    Second year students of the specialisation Live Music & Dance Events talked with bookers, events managers, producers, students and a various group of...

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    CRYPTOPOLIS Erasmus+ Project finalized successfully

    CRYPTOPOLIS is a project supported by EU which focuses on the financial management knowledge of teachers and the emerging field of risk management and...

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  • Industry perspectives on the future of leisure

    Industry perspectives on the future of leisure

    Several leisure & events professionals gave their vision about the future of leisure in Uncover Magazine.

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  • World Leisure Organization on the Future of Leisure

    World Leisure Organization on the Future of Leisure

    Several members of the World Leisure Organization (WLO) give their vision on the future of leisure in Uncover Magazine. Academy for Leisure & Events...

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    The trade fair of the future

    Lecturer Dorothé Gerritsen wrote an article for Uncover Magazine - Future of Leisure, about developments in the live fair industry. Among other things...

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  • Sports and Exercise scenario study

    Sports and Exercise scenario study

    The leisure industry is influenced by what happens in society. This impact may take a while, such as the gradual ageing of the western population...

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    Social impact is the future

    There is a growing awareness of the social impact of leisure. In companies, governments, social enterprises and in leisure science itself, both in...

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    Towards a waste-free generation

    It is 2040 and there are no waste bins on the streets, and there is no litter in sight. Nothing goes to waste, food leftovers become compost, and...

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    Leisure inspires hope for change

    If you open your eyes, you see the cracks; if you listen, you hear the squeaking and creaking: nitrogen, loneliness, food banks, energy prices...

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    Sustainable Futures

    As our society evolves, so does our understanding of sustainability and its interplay with Leisure & Events. This complex relationship was spotlighted...

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    Student perspectives on the future of leisure

    How do students of Leisure & Events Management look on the future of leisure? Students of different educational programmes in the Netherlands give...

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  • How do you measure experience and impact in the culture sector?

    How do you measure experience and impact in the culture sector?

    Experience has long been at the centre of cultural and leisure offerings. In the 1990s, it was firmly put on the agenda by Pine and Gilmore. Recently...

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    Collaboration workplace enhances the transformative capacity

    The collaboration workplaces (Samenwerkplaatsen) of the Urban Living Lab Breda (ULLB) sees direct involvement of residents in their own living...

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  • How to make place in and out of the classroom?

    How to make place in and out of the classroom?

    It is a term you see pop up in strategic plans, policy documents and in education more and more: placemaking. Will it be the new ‘buzzword’ of the...

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    Students on a placemaking mission in the city of Amsterdam

    What happens if 120 second-year students go on a placemaking mission in the city of Amsterdam? A story about happy communities, making international...

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    Is Rural the new Urban?

    Rural communities face a range of negative developments that continue causing the disappearance of remote village communities and the weakening of...

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  •  A look into the future of placemaking

    A look into the future of placemaking

    Leisure has an important relationship to time, space, and place. In leisure studies we are used to thinking about time as the basic resource for...

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    Leisure professionals as change-makers

    Everything is space! But how everyone arranges that space for themselves and for others is becoming increasingly complex.

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