22nd edition

The sports afternoon for staff 2025 will take place Thursday 17 April 2025.

Target group

The sports afternoon is exclusive for staff members of Ghent University. Family or friends can’t participate.

Only effective attendees en volunteers will get service exemption during the sports afternoon..

Registration

You can only register online and this until Tuesday 08 April 2025 at the latest.

You can consult the remaining available spots per sport branch in the registration module.

No access to or experience with PC?

Employees who do not have access to a PC or are unfamiliar with registering online will contact the secretariat or a colleague within their department. A colleague can make the registration with the staff member’s personal UGent account.

Locations

The various sports activities are organized at different locations. The central point is located at the university sports complex GUSB, Watersportlaan 3.

The catering with the following "after sports party" takes place from 6 pm in the GUSB Sportsbar.

Price

Participation in the sports afternoon is free.

To participate in the catering you must pre-register and pay online (before 09 April 2025), there is no refund possible if you do not participate.
For practical reasons, once the catering voucher has been issued, it will only be possible to join the chosen food stand once

The possible choices for catering this year are:

• Spit burger meat tray: 9 euro
  
• Paella: 23 euro
  
• Bunch Box: Soba noodles with pulled chicken: 13 euro
  Soba noodles, coconut chicken, radishes, cucumber, mange-touts, soy sprouts, cilantro, crispy onions (gluten).
  
• Bunch Box Vegetarian: Soba noodles with Asian-style omelet: 13 euro
  Soba noodles, Asian omelet, radishes, cucumber, mange-touts, soy shoots, cilantro, crispy onions (gluten).
  

Use of (own) material

Unless otherwise stated, all material is present.

You can of course bring your own equipment such as mountain bike and bicycle helmet, badminton, padel, tennis or squash racket, table tennis bat, etc..

Your own bike is mandatory for recreational and sporty bike rides and for the sporty mountain bike tour. Your own smartphone is mandatory for the Smartphone city game.

Insurance

All employees who participate and / or cooperate are insured within the occupational accident insurance for personnel or the policy for occupational accidents (post)doctoral researchers.

Attendance registration

Your effective participation is recorded in the context of the service exemption granted. You will find more information about this when confirming your registration.