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Welcome to Antwerp!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

This year, we’ll be taking you to our fine city university: the University of Antwerp!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The WordCamp will take you through the old historical city of Antwerp. On this page we’ll list all the venue information you’ll need + some extra travel info<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main conference tracks are hosted in the city university<\/a>, the Contributor Evening in ViaVia<\/a> and we’ll take you to some extra fine locations for the after party<\/a> and the Community Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All locations will be within walking distance of both our Cathedral and beautiful Central Station (except for the after party, but we’ll provide a shuttle if you’d need it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Antwerp<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When: Friday March 27th, Saturday March 28th \u2014 daytime
Where: Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen<\/a>
Most convenient entrance: Grote Kauwenberg 2, 2000 Antwerpen<\/a>
Website: EN<\/a> \/ NL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The university has 3 campusses, of course we chose the one right in the middle of the old city: the ‘Stadscampus’. Just be aware when you follow the signs: go into the city, don’t go out \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means we won’t have the whole university for ourselves (that would be kind of selfish), but we will have 2 fine large auditoria and a couple of large classrooms for different simultaneous talks, breakout space and our hallway track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we’re lucky, we can have lunch in the wide and beautiful university garden. And like real students, we’ll have our closing drinks in the Agora Caf\u00e9 (we’ll make sure the regular students leave us some room, don’t worry! ;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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P.S. Check the sneak preview<\/a> we made on our visit to the University in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ViaVia Antwerpen <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When: Friday March 27th \u2014 evening
Where: Wolstraat 43, 2000 Antwerpen<\/a>
Website: EN<\/a> \/ NL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you joined us on our Contributor Day in 2018, you’ll remember this fine caf\u00e9\/restaurant. We’ll have our Contributor Evening on the very same location: the upper floors above the restaurant are all ours!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Extra locations:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Community Day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Info page here: https:\/\/2020.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/community-afternoon\/<\/a>
When: Sunday March 29th \u2014 1 PM > 5 PM
Where: Grote Markt 1<\/a> (before the city hall)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Party<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When: Saturday March 28th \u2014 starting from 20:00
Where: Antwerpse Brouw Compagnie (Taproom)
Address: Indi\u00ebstraat 21, 2000 Antwerpen<\/a>
Website: https:\/\/seef.be\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep, you read it correctly: our after party will be in a brewery! No worries, they do have non-alcoholic beverages too. They however won’t have any beers on tap they didn’t brew themselves. So no Bolleke here, but Seef, Super Cadix and more to make up for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This location is a little bit further from the old city center and Central Station. If you don’t like to walk, we’ll have a shuttle bus going from the university to the after party venue and afterwards back to the old city center or the Central Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical travel information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Antwerp central train station is at walking distance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So arriving by train would be quite convenient. The university is only a 15-20min walk from the station. And did we mention our Central Station is beautiful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By car? Antwerp is a low emission zone<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Your car has to be \u2018clean\u2019 in order to drive into the city without risking a fine.\u00a0\u00a0Check if your car is clean enough<\/a>\u00a0& if so: cars with non-Belgian and Non-Dutch license plates also\u00a0have to be registered<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When in doubt, or when you don\u2019t want to drive into the city:\u00a0check the Antwerp Park+Ride sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Don’t try to find a free parking spot within a half an hour walk: the whole city has paid parking, even in the weekends. Follow the parking signs ‘Universiteit’. Here’s a list of some paid parking garages nearby the city university:<\/p>\n\n\n\n