Made For LIVF

Creativity, as an ingredient of leisure, is one focus point that represents not only the content of our leisure and events activities but also the way we work with our students, lecturers and workfield partners. Leisure is playful, fun, interactive, gives energy. All these elements are translated into our academy. Let’s continue to practice what we preach and continue to be a role model of creativity.

State of the art education, focus on what we teach and how we teach. Let’s be the new standard in how we work together and be a reference to colleague universities of applied sciences.

Connecting to the right partners. Let’s make sure that our partners, organizations and communities align with the path we are walking. Let’s make sure that societal impact and sustainable development goals are also embedded within their strategy and not just nice wallpaper for the outside world. Realizing that we all have different cruise controls and we apply different speeds of implementation, which is okay, as long as we move into the right direction together.

Wellbeing, happiness for students and lecturers. Let’s make sure that we care for each other and take responsibility for each other’s wellbeing and we all embrace the positive connotation of professional rebelliousness.

Impact, all community members are ambassadors for the fact that leisure and events create essential societal impact and act upon it.

And last but certainly not least, we embrace diversity and inclusion. In our communication, the way we develop and teach our programmes, our recruitment policy, the way we treat each other and others.

While reading through all the articles, one thing strikes me, it is all about doing things together and that is what connects us even more. It significantly increases the success rate.

We can have the most wonderful and beautiful ideas, let’s make sure we focus on:

What we really want to accomplish. The world of leisure & events is all about LIVE experiences. Moments that stay with you and have a positive impact on our quality of LIFE. We conduct research and educate future responsible entrepreneurs or managers in the leisure industry. It is up to them to make sure that people have experiences that enrich their lives. They will create these experiences. They are Made for LIVF.

Who we are involving. Let’s work with industry partners, societal organisations and communities that share our vision of the world.

The right timing. We should act TODAY. The timing has never been so great. We are living the post corona effects, there is a war going on, we are getting more and more lonely, and society is getting more individualized. The time is perfect to focus on diversity and inclusion. It might even save our planet.

Never giving up. Do not give up if we run into challenges, unforeseen hurdles, if the going gets tough. Or even if we accomplished our goals. Diversity and inclusion are very complex and have many angles. It will not be an easy path, but if it can be done anywhere, it is within the leisure and events sector. Because that is where people from different walks of life meet, connect, have fun together and share experiences. Let’s be that kind pit-bull that never lets go, because we want to make impact, that is in our DNA.

We are Made For LIVF.