2025 WLCE Field School

Join us in August 2025 in the city of Breda, The Netherlands, for the 2025 World Leisure Congress international Field School! Students from the hosting university, Breda University of Applied Sciences, and from various World Leisure Centres of Excellence, will work together to develop ideas to answer the following question:

How can Breda become an accessible, welcoming, inclusive leisure city for people with disabilities?

Under the them of “Redesigning Leisure: Creating Access and Inclusion for Everyone”, the schedule will feature a diverse mix of company visits, project design sessions, and engaging leisure and social activities, of course! Field school students, from different cultures, context and academic backgrounds will work together with experience experts (people with disabilities, who are experts in understanding and navigating their specific conditions) to assess the accessibility of several leisure organizations and attractions in Breda and co-create improvement ideas. The outcomes of this collaboration will be showcased during the World Leisure Congress and shared widely through the World Leisure Organization website and other channels.

For ambitious young academics, the benefit from participating in this field school includes contributing to a societally relevant project, gaining free access to the congress, and having the potential opportunity to co-author publications based on the project’s findings. For young leisure specialists hoping to build their network, the field school immerses you in a vibrant community of enthusiastic peers (during the field school itself) and leisure professionals and scholars (during the congress), allowing you to make friends and establish professional contacts that might last you a lifetime.