What is UiTdatabank?
UiTdatabank is the shared platform where events from the cultural and leisure sector are collected and distributed to UiTinVlaanderen, municipal event calendars, tourism portals, and many other partner websites. For cultural organizations, publishing events in UiTdatabank automatically means greater visibility, without having to update each of these channels individually.
The reach is significant. According to publiq, the organization behind UiTdatabank, entering an event just once allows it to appear on more than 1,000 printed and digital event calendars from local and national media, government organizations, and cultural partners, in addition to its own channels such as UiTinVlaanderen, Vlieg, UiTX, and UiTPAS.be. Every year, more than 28,000 organizers publish over 215,000 activities, making UiTdatabank the largest cultural and leisure event database in Flanders and Brussels.
The real value lies in the word automatically. UiTdatabank only delivers its full benefits when your events are published there without any additional manual work. That requires a direct integration between the system where you manage your programme, typically your own website or CMS, and UiTdatabank itself.
Tell the story,
we’ll take care of the reach.
Visibility starts with a compelling story, not with filling out a form. publiq, the organization behind UiTdatabank, emphasizes this as well: a strong, inclusive image, a complete event description, and the correct categorization all influence whether your event gets picked up and promoted widely. You’re the expert on your performance, exhibition, or event, so you’re the best person to tell that story.
What you shouldn’t have to do is enter the same information twice. publiq itself demonstrates how initiatives such as Open Monumentendag use the Entry API to publish events automatically to UiTdatabank, from where they are distributed to more than 1,000 publication channels. No additional login. No duplicate data entry. Enter your event once, and it reaches every connected platform automatically.
That’s exactly the integration Inventis builds for your organization. You create the story and choose the images, we make sure they appear everywhere.
How do we integrate UiTdatabank?
Without an integration, a familiar problem quickly arises: a staff member publishes a new event on your website and then has to enter the exact same information into UiTdatabank. That means double the work, double the chance of errors, and double the maintenance. Even worse, a last-minute programme change may only be updated in one of the two places.
Inventis builds integrations that automatically publish events created or updated in your CMS directly to UiTdatabank. You manage your programme in one central location, while the integration distributes it to UiTdatabank and every connected publication channel.
Where relevant, we combine this with integrations for your ticketing platform, such as Ticketmatic, ensuring that event information and ticket sales always stay perfectly synchronized.
Who is this for?
Does this sound familiar? A new event is published on your website, but days later it still hasn’t appeared on UiTinVlaanderen or your municipality’s event calendar. Your team repeatedly copies the same event information into multiple systems. A last-minute programme update doesn’t reach every channel in time.
If your organization already works with UiTdatabank, or should be, and these situations sound familiar, Inventis can help. Whether you’re a cultural centre, museum, festival, or another leisure organization, we know UiTdatabank inside out and understand how to build integrations that fit your workflows.
Our approach
Every UiTdatabank project at Inventis starts with a thorough analysis of how you currently manage your events: which system you use, who is responsible for maintaining event data, and exactly which information needs to be synchronized.
From there, we work iteratively. Instead of delivering a fixed end product months later, we take a step-by-step approach that allows us to adjust together as requirements evolve. We don’t just focus on the technical integration, we also design reliable data flows, robust error handling, and a solution that remains maintainable as your organization grows.
A practical example:
CC Maasmechelen
When CC Maasmechelen launched its new website, event management was one of the project’s key priorities. A busy cultural programme means a constant stream of performances, exhibitions, and activities that need to appear not only on the organization’s own website, but also in UiTdatabank. For a busy team, manually entering the same information twice simply wasn’t an option.
Inventis built the integration that eliminated this manual work. As soon as a staff member creates or updates an event in the website’s CMS, the information is automatically synchronized with UiTdatabank. No second login. No duplicate data entry. Just the confidence that CC Maasmechelen’s programme reaches audiences far beyond its own website.
More than 10 years of experience in the cultural sector
For more than a decade, Inventis has been building websites, digital platforms, and integrations for cultural organizations, festivals, museums, and other leisure organizations.
That experience means we understand the complexities of UiTdatabank: from event structures and recurring series to sector-specific exceptions and publication workflows. We build integrations that don’t just work today, but continue to perform reliably as your programme evolves and your organization grows.
Ready to connect your events to UiTdatabank?
Get in touch with our team. We're happy to think along on the best way to seamlessly link your event management to UiTdatabank.