Blueprint for advanced skills & trainings in the social economy : NATIONAL SYNTHESIS FOR BELGIUM

This document was written as part of the baSE project – Blueprint for Advanced Skills and Training in the Social Economy. This project focuses on competence mismatches for the upskilling and reskilling of social economy practitioners, managers and supporters, and contributes to a new strategic approach (Blueprint) to sectoral cooperation on the supply of competences for new or updated occupational profiles in the social economy sector. The baSE project involves 25 partners (social economy federations, umbrella organisations and support structures, higher education and vocational education and training providers, research institutions and sector experts) from 10 European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Spain) forming an alliance for sectoral cooperation on competences for the social economy and proximity ecosystem. Each partner country was asked to write a national synthesis, documenting first the current state, issues and perspectives of the social economy in their country, secondly the competences, skills and training needed to support the social economy ecosystem, and thirdly recommendations addressed to national and European institutions. The 10 national syntheses were afterwards fed into an extended research study in order to understand, at the European level, the needs of social economy organisations in terms of reskilling and upskilling to effectively face the green and digital transition as well as the inclusiveness challenge.