About us
Culture like you could experience tomorrow. But, preferably today.
Like everyone else, the cultural sector is making its way through the obstacle course of increasing digitisation. Regardless of whether you’re the proactive type, or would rather wait-and-see, we have to get through it together. And that is something we can really get on board with at Cultuurconnect. Obstacles? Challenges! Problems? Chances!
Experiments
Through targeted calls to culture professionals, we gain insight into the digital needs of the sector. We regularly organise new calls. Team Research & Development carefully considers each proposal and evaluates what digital needs would benefit from further testing and experimenting.
You decide for which digital needs we eventually try to find a solution. Through our website, we are launching a short-list that culture professionals can vote for. There is also a focus group consisting of R&D experts from different sectors evaluating the proposals.
In the end, we start with a small number of submitted needs: together with the local submitters and external experts, we subsequently brainstorm, create, test and investigate possible solutions according to the lean start-up method. Worst case scenario: we learn a lot from the experiment and share our findings with you. In the best case scenario, we scale the project to supralocal proportions for all Flemish cities and municipalities.
Services
Many of our services are the result of the diligent work of project teams, composed of culture professionals, external experts and colleagues in the Cultuurconnect team. Bieblo, Recommender, Voor de show, [Jouw stad] Leest... They were once all successful experiments, scaled to serve all local cultural actors.
In 2016, Bibnet and Locus merged to form Cultuurconnect. The services that Bibnet had for public libraries at the time were, at that point, incorporated in the Cultuurconnect offer. For instance, it includes Bibliotheekwebsites, Bibliotheeksysteem, Fundels and Gopress. Our product and service managers work hard to continually evaluate and optimise all of the services.
Events & training
Throughout the cultural year, we organise small and large events, work visits and trainings to inspire culture professionals and guide them in their quest through different digital themes, such as digital arts, planning systems, storytelling...
Through inspiring talks and hands-on workshops, we jointly discover how a culture house locally plays to an increasingly digital public, looking for its way in an increasingly digital offer. We would be happy to welcome you to one of our Uncovered sessions, Dig It Up, Café Connect, or one of the many other activities and trainings.
Working at Cultuurconnect
Cultuurconnect means digital, innovative, engaged, enterprising, professional, lean & sweet. Our mission? Supporting and guiding cultural institutions with adjusting and achieving their goals in the digital community. Would you like to work in a dynamic and exciting work environment and convey this mission every day, together with a close team of colleagues? If so, we’d love to meet you. To spontaneously apply, send an email to jobs@cultuurconnect.be. Cultuurconnect has an equal opportunities policy. People’s qualities are the deciding factor, regardless of gender, age, origin or handicap.