EVENTS

(This event will be held in French) We are pleased to share information about this event as OpenLab.Brussels is taking part in the roundtable as a speaker, represented by Samia Ben Rajeb, who will present on the topic of cultural mediation.

(This event will be held in Dutch and English)  The next Scivil Citizen Science Networking Day will be held at Aeropolis in Brussels, near Schaerbeek station. This year, Scivil is organising its networking day in collaboration with Beweging.net, VITO and VUB.

(This event will be held in English)  PolyCIVIS is an EU-funded Jean Monnet Network bringing together 21 universities across Africa and Europe to advance joint interdisciplinary research, education, and policy dialogue on the contemporary polycrisis.

(This event will be held in French) Co-producing the city?In a context marked by the withdrawal of the state and the widening of inequalities, the question arises: is it still possible to share resources, knowledge, and power?

(The workshop will be held in English)  How can art contribute to a vibrant democracy? And what does it mean to mobilise your body, voice, and emotions in the public sphere?

(This event will be held in French)  Une nouvelle édition du séminaire de la Chaire Transitions justes du Collectif SWIFFT (ULB–VUB) est proposée, en collaboration avec l’Institut interfacultaire des Transformations socio‑écologiques (iiTSE – ULB) et le Groupe de recherche sur les dynamiques s...

(The workshop will be held in English)  How can art contribute to a vibrant democracy? And what does it mean to mobilise your body, voice, and emotions in the public sphere?

(This event will be held in English)  The Child Citizen Lab will be organizing an international research seminar on ‘Doing Research with Children’. Join us for an exciting day of keynotes, presentations and networking moments.

(This event will be held in English) The OpenLab will host the international final of the CIVIS Sustainability Challenge, bringing together selected student teams from across the CIVIS Alliance to present their solutions to the 2026 theme: “Thermal comfort for a just, low-carbon and budget-resilien...

(The event will be held in French)  The Urban Ecology Centre is partnering with the OpenLab of the Université libre de Bruxelles to organise an unprecedented training programme on knowledge co‑production.  The aim is to collectively strengthen our capacity to understand how scientific, tec...

(The workshop will be held in English)  How can art contribute to a vibrant democracy? And what does it mean to mobilise your body, voice, and emotions in the public sphere?

(This event will be held in English) Free screening of Eat More Trees, a film by Arne Focketyn at USquare, followed by a panel discussion. What is the power of agroforestry and alternative agriculture ?

(The workshop will be held in English)  How can art contribute to a vibrant democracy? And what does it mean to mobilise your body, voice, and emotions in the public sphere?

(This event will be held in French)  Citizen panels, deliberative mechanisms, public policy evaluations, scientific research, games or artistic works — this festival invites participants to combine these tools, reinvent them, hybridize them, in order to sustainably transform public action.

(This event will be held in English, French and Italian)  A webinar will be organised on Monday 20 April, from 3 pm to 5 pm, to present the TOGETHERNESS project and the opportunities it offers.  Part 1 (45 min) Presentation of the consortium and the three main dimensions of the TOGETHERN...

(The event will be held in French)  Architecture, Urban Planning, and Gender - Towards Greater Inclusivity in Architecture and Land Use Planning Projects To mark March 8, International Women's Rights Day, the AIA (Architecture and Architectural Engineering), SUFI (Sustainable Urban Futures Inst...

(The morning session will be held in Dutch - The afternoon session will be held in English) On 20 March 2026, Waterland vzw, Scivil and VUB bring together two themes within the CIW platform group on water–citizen‑science: how citizen science can strengthen area coalitions and how nature‑based soluti...

(French below) The CIVIS Sustainability Challenge brings together students from across Europe (and beyond!) for an intense, interdisciplinary 48‑hour sprint to imagine and build ideas that make our communities more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient.

Doctoral defense by Carina Veeckman for the academic degree of Doctor in Media and Communication Studies with the thesis entitled "The Democratic Potential of Citizen Science: Public Participation in Scientific Research." Supervisors: Prof. Leo Van Audenhove (VUB) and Prof.

(The event will be held in French)  Architecture, Urban Planning, and Gender - Towards Greater Inclusivity in Architecture and Land Use Planning Projects To mark March 8, International Women's Rights Day, the AIA (Architecture and Architectural Engineering), SUFI (Sustainable Urban Futures Inst...

How can citizen science be better translated, valued, and used in decision-making for climate change adaptation?

Architectural and urban design education is increasingly confronted with finite resources, planetary boundaries, and layered socio‑material transformations.

(The event will be held in French) Architecture, Urban Planning, and Gender - Towards Greater Inclusivity in Architecture and Land Use Planning Projects To mark March 8, International Women's Rights Day, the AIA (Architecture and Architectural Engineering), SUFI (Sustainable Urban Futures Institute)...

From December 2025 to March 2026, the ScienceUs project is hosting a four-part online Info Day Series dedicated to advancing the role of Citizen Science in climate action across Europe.

What is citizen science? Why should I engage in it and if I would want to, how do I get started? Come and find out in our 4-hour workshop on the 17th of June 2025! During this introductory training open to VUB and ULB staff, you will learn the answers to these questions.

How is Participatory Research coping with the functioning of public administrations? Participatory research between researchers and citizens is growing and tackling societal problems from new angles.

EN - The participation of Women in the history of the Solbosch: raising awareness and promoting an invisible heritage - M@trimonia.

Games are everywhere—whether they’re board games, role-playing games, or video games, they serve different purposes beyond entertainment. Games are also powerful tools for data collection, analysis, interdisciplinary research, teaching, and mediation.

On November 13th & 14th, OpenLab.brussels is hosting an international conference that will bring together researchers and practitioners engaged in participatory research.

A brainstorming session was organized on May 23, 2024 on the Usquare site to introduce the new OpenLab.Brussels coordination team and to reframe, together, its new objectives and priority actions.