As previously announced, at the next Brussels tweetup on Thursday 13th July, Jason Knoll (@JasonLKnoll) and 8 of his High School students from Madison, Wisconsin will meet the Twitter nerds. As the students are still at school, this is going to be more of a dinner than a pub night tweetup!

So how will it work?

We’ve reserved a room at Ellis Gourmet Burger, Place Jourdan 20 (map), upstairs. Jason and the students will be there from 1800, and people can arrive from then onwards. If you want to eat something, can you please tell us your order by Wednesday 12th June, 1800 at the latest (i.e. 24 hours before the tweetup!) using the form below – the options on the form below correspond to the menu options here (PDF). You can submit the form for up to 4 people. Kindly DM @jonworth if you then subsequently cannot make it, or will be late. If you just want to drink something you do not need to fill in the form – just come along. And you will have to pay for your own food on the spot! As ever keep an eye on #EUtweetup for updates!

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday!

Food pre-order form

We are happy to announce two summer tweetups in Brussels.

Thursday 8th June (the day of the UK General Election!) from 1800 at Wild Geese, Avenue Livingstone 2, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium [map] from 1800.

Thursday 13th July from 1800, venue tbc – but this is a special tweetup as Jason Knoll (@JasonLKnoll) is in Brussels with his students. We first met Jason at a Tweetup back in 2015 and we’re happy to welcome him back. He’s a high school teacher in Madison, Wisconsin who uses Twitter as an educational tool with his students – so come along and meet them!

It’s finally happened. Article 50 has been triggered and the EU28 is becoming the EU27.

Perhaps even more noteworthy for an #EUTweetUp audience, the FT front page article opened with not one, but three tweets. You see, there is always a silver lining. The EU flag-tastic pictures filling our timelines from various grassroots initiatives across Europe also give us hope!

So, let’s seize the occasion and toast to the next 60 years of the EU at a celebratory #EUTweetUp. After a democratic vote:

The @EUTweetup crew (well @kosmopolit and I) are contemplating the next #EUTweetUp on 6 April: what do you think?

— Katie Owens (@ktowens) March 9, 2017

We are meeting on 6 April at @BrewDogBrussels from 6.30pm until 10pm (…at least) It’s right next to Gare Central (map) and has an amazing terrace if the Brussels weather decides to cooperate, but having lived in Brussels for a while, we reserved the ‘tasting room’ in the middle of the bar, you know, just in case! And, if all that doesn’t convince you, it may even be your last chance to see @kosmopolit …

As I am leaving Brussels this may be my last @EUtweetup… https://t.co/w5gHMHwOPC

— kosmopolit (@kosmopolit) March 9, 2017

No need to register, just follow the #EUTweetUP hashtag and come along. Hope to see you there!

Nearly March and no #EUTweetUp?! Did you miss us? Time to announce the first #EUtweetup of 2017!

Everything you need to know in less than 140 characters:

Brussels #EUtweetup Tuesday February 28 – London Calling – from 6.30pm*

We start at around 6.30pm* (until people want to go home). We also revive out tradition to make each #EUtweetup as topical as possible:

Building on the spontaneous @why_europe #EUTweetUp last week, we have more special guests to introduce you to. Later in the evening a group of “Dutch social media influencers” will join us!

So, make sure to stick around for a while – it’ll be worth it, we promise! The likes of @ArnoldVonk @motherboardnl, @socialevraagst @lalalalinder @datagraver @charlotteslaw and @Reporters_nl will answer all your questions about the role of social media in the upcoming Dutch elections.

Follow the #EUTweetUp hashtag for news and update.

*Carnival costumes optional

Another impromptu #EUtweetup!

This week 15 Polish youtubers, bloggers, instagrammers are in town – so why not go for a drink with them and learn the tricks of the trade? Some of them are local heros, passionate about urban-bicycling and green cities, others are the real influencers on the Polish web, with YouTube subscription counts reaching over 300K. Amongst them the organizers of Polish TweetUps, a female duo of vlogging truck-drivers and a pro-refugee activist, organising the “Walk to Aleppo” during Christmas.

Sounds intriguing?

Join us for an #EUtweetup on Wednesday, December 7 at 8PM.

Venue: BrewDog Brussels

If you can’t find us please tweet to @MikolajHandzlik

Autumn becomes winter. The Brussels hacks huddle inside, with hands wrapped around glasses of dark beer, and wonder about the phoney war. And Theresa May still hasn’t sent the Article 50 notification.

Meanwhile the kind folks over at Euractiv have blogged about EU Tweetups, and James Crisp is encouraging us all to be more positive about Belgium. So why not come along for a beer? Everyone is very welcome!

Put the details in your diary!

DATE: Tuesday 15th November – from 6pm until 9pm at least (come as and when you want to)
LOCATION: London Calling, Place de Londres (where else?)
WHERE? Inside, at the far end of London Calling, past the bar! Please check @EUTweetup on the day for details

So the summer is over. Brussels is back in business. And we still have no sodding clue how Brexit is going to work. So join us for a beer to drown your sorrows about all of those things and, in typical Brussels EU Tweetup style, meet all the folks who talk about the EU on Twitter. We’ve got no special guests confirmed for this tweetup yet (although rumour has it that two prominent EU Twitter nerds are in Brussels for good, from Brighton and Den Haag) but we’ll update this blog entry as and when we know more.

But for now put the details in your diary!

DATE: Wednesday 21st September – from 6pm until 9pm at least (come as and when you want to)
LOCATION: London Calling, Place de Londres (where else?)
WHERE? Outside or inside, depending on the weater! Please check @EUTweetup on the day for details

Well, well, well… it really happened. Brexit is upon us. Political chaos in the UK. Cameron resigned. Debates about Article 50 loom over Brussels. An interesting European Council is ahead of us.

Yes, we do live in interesting times. And to make it even more interesting we invited a few Scots from @DemsocScotland to our next #EUtweetup (they organise great Holyrood tweetups in Edinburgh!)  As you all know, Scotland may play an important role in the post-Brexit world – both in the UK and ‘in Europe’.  So, join us for a  “Holyrood meets Brussels” #EUtweetup – and get a feeling for the political debate in Scotland. Of course you can also just come along for a drink and ignore all this Brexit stuff for a few hours…

DATE: 30 June – from 6pm
LOCATION: Place de Londres (where else?)
WHERE? Outside – We will try and get a few tables in front of Stoemelings/El Turco. If Brussels weather does not agree with this plan, please check @EUTweetup for details (but don’t worry, we will still be in one of the bars around Place de Londres!)

See you on Thursday!

In a true democratic style, otherwise known as a Twitter poll, you voted to return to a more central location for the 19 May #EUTweetup.

So… we will be back at Brewdog (@BrewDogBrussels on Twitter) by the Gare Centrale, following our very warm welcome there in February. Boasting forty beers on tap, as well as wine, cava and soft drinks for the non-beer drinkers amongst us, as well as tasty food, it’s not surprising this place is fast becoming a Tweetup regular!

This time we have reserved the mezzanine level for the TweetUp from 19.00, but we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed for sun so we can benefit from their amazing terrace. And fortunately for us, the TweetUp is happening when a whole new set of “digital evangelisers” are in town! The European Commission’s Digital Leaders – from the 28 representation offices in the Member States – are having their annual meeting in Brussels with the intention of exchanging good practices and picking up new skills. If you want to do some homework in advance, you can follow the Representations on Twitter through this list: https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/lists/ec-representations …

With just 5 weeks until the #UKRef, we are sure there will be much to talk about!

Come along, bring your friends and let’s Tweet Up!