About us

Campus Vesta stimulates collaboration of aid workers on the field.

  • We capture knowledge
  • We evaluate new techniques, processes, products & services
  • We transfer innovation to the field
  • We share knowledge concerning safety topics with public bodies

Independent Subsidiary of Province of Antwerp

Nearly 80 permanent staff members & more than 700 freelance instructors provide high standard safety education.

700 Freelance Teachers with Field Experience

Multidisciplinair overleg

We believe in the right man on the right spot. That's why all our freelancers are coached by a team of pedagogues. We look further than stars and stripes. At Campus Vesta talented young police professionals can educate experienced Fire Officers on how to use social media on the field. Experienced judges share their inspiring case studies with police students. While medical emergency nurses teach nurseries how to reanimate infants. Etc. Every course or workshop takes place in an ambiance of enhancing each other respectfully.

Building Bridges

By education we bring people closer together. This way we create better cooperation on the field between aid workers. Next to that we welcome every year more than 6.000 commercial participants for corporate incident first respons workshops, communication trainings, CPR, etc.

We anticipate on what lives in society. We always choose for a positive approach. Often that means we have to challenge our sector by thinking out of the box. That's why for instance we organize special trainings for police officers on how to interact with Muslims to ensure they are respectflul towards Islam. And we created together with University of Antwerp the postgraduates trainings Disaster Management and Advisor Hazardous Materials.

Multidisciplinary Testing & Exercise Infrastructure

Campus Vesta is situated in Ranst, near Antwerp, on a former English military base, boasting approximately 50 ha.

  • 25 classrooms
  • 4 computer classrooms
  • an auditorium
  • a classroom for virtual exercises
  • a fitness center, 2 dojos, a gym
  • practice spaces for roleplaying
  • state-of-the-art shooting range
  • exercise village
     

Vast area for every possible Scenario Training

Outside the training site offers accomodation for:

  • industrial fire fighting
  • confined spaces training
  • backdraft and flash-over training
  • a 2 x 2 lanes highway
  • a village including a hospital and a five-storey apartment building for fire and non-fire exercises
  • a synthetic drug lab
  • an airplane wreck
  • railway carriages
  • a building for blindfolded orientation techniques and heat customization
  • a decontamination site, exercise facilities for toxic gas interventions and thermal imagine use