International staff week at VIVES

We are pleased to invite you to our International Staff Week (ISW) at VIVES – Commercial Sciences, Business Management and Applied Informatics in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 24 to 28 November 2025. 

Our event is an excellent opportunity to boost your international network by meeting our staff as well as close to 40 foreign colleagues from at least 15 different countries all over the world. In order to offer as many partner institutions as possible a chance to attend, we generally allow only two delegates, exceptionally three, from one university.

You can apply as guest lecturer for our second-year students in our bachelor (EQF level 6) or our associate degree (EQF level 5) programmes in Business Management, Organisation & Management and Applied Informatics. You are requested to bring an interactive workshop in which you set our students to work on a case in your field. More about our format and registration can be found here.

You can apply as of now, submitting your idea (50 to 100 words) for your workshop. Registration will be open until Sunday 28 September but please don’t leave it until last minute. We will be in touch if we need more information or if your proposal is not the best fit for our students. Acceptance of your proposal will be confirmed as soon as possible and no later than Friday, October 3. 

Below, you can find the draft programme for the ISW2025. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at lynn.tanghe@vives.be.

We very much look forward to meeting you (again).

Kind regards 

Lynn Tanghe – Coordinator International Staff Week 

Karolien Plancke – International Coordinator CSBM&I

Stéphanie Bovie – International Coordinator Incoming Students

Anna Szermuszyn – International Coordinator Outgoing Students