OVERCOMING
BORDERS IN BRUSSELS
7-9 April
2025
Welcome to our Brussels excursion, a journey that promises not only to preface the 2025 Intensive Programme in Udine but also to spark fresh insights, pleasant memories, and a few laughs along the way.
Introduction
We hope that you will enjoy the trip, experience the city of Brussels with friends and learn new concepts and ideas that will be useful to develop your IP paper.
The city of Brussels lies at the intersection of Belgium’s two major ethnic groups: the Flemish and the Walloons. Together with the German-speaking community, these groups shape the nation’s identity, making its multiethnic character one of its defining features.
Thanks to its privileged position, Brussels is a multicultural city where many differences and divisions converge.
Click below if you want to know more about the city!
For these reasons we decided to take inspiration from this year’s IP theme and make “Overcoming Borders in Europe and Beyond” the common thread behind this trip. Each visit and activity is linked to one of the three subthemes, offering unique insights through Brussels’ unique cultural, political, and social dimensions.
We also organized an alumni meeting to have the possibility to know what they decided to do after Euroculture and have some useful insight and advice for our future careers.
Trip's Itinerary
Go to Hostel / Check-in
Go back to Hostel
April 7th - Monday
Go back to Hostel / Rest
April 8th - Tuesday
April 9th - Wednesday
Train Itinerary
IP Subthemes
Our trip not only prefaces the 2025 IP but also provides a hands-on opportunity to explore how borders are constructed, contested, and reimagined, politically, culturally, and through art.
To juggle your memory once more, the 2025 IP themes include:
Borders as a
Political Space
Examining political, legal, and policy dimensions, including immigration, security, and institutional innovation.
Borders and Everyday Life: Bordering as Practice
Focusing on the material and symbolic practices that shape everyday experiences of borders.
Borderscapes
Exploring how art and cultural expressions reveal, reinterpret, or obscure the boundaries that define our shared spaces.
Our Team
We, Danielle, Ibibia, Maria, and Riccardo, are excited and honoured to be your guides on this memorable expedition.
