Description
Country
Focus area
View.brussels, the Brussels Observatory for Employment and Training is the research department of the Brussels PES Actiris and Bruxelles Formation, the brussels public service for vocational trianing. View.brussels has a mandate to monitor and analyze the labour market in the Brussels-Capital Region and is specifically tasked to anticipate employment and training needs, to monitor, evaluate and analyze the transitions following training and employment measures, to formulate recommendations and to inform relevant actors and policy makers in the field of employment and training and provide technical support and expertise including for the follow-up of the 2020 Training Plan. The overarching goal being to enable a better alignment of training and employment needs.
Link
Reference/weblink
Implementation level
At what level is the initiative implemented?
Regional
Legal base
Legal base (E.g. Law, regulation, implementing provision, other)
view.brussels has a legal mandate by the regional Brussels government and was established to align vocational and emplpoyment policy by doing research on both topics
Starting period
TIMESPAN: In what year did the initiative commence?
view.brussels was established in 2017 as a restart of the Brussels Observatory for Employment which was established in 1995. The organisation was officially launched in 2019 as view.brussels. The most significant change relative to the Brussels Obervatory for Employment has been the mandate to also analyze training needs in order to align these with employment needs.
Perspective
PERSPECTIVE: is the initiative based on evidence derived from skill forecasts or foresight activities?
The initiative arises from the Strategy GO4 Brussels 2025 (2015) which in turn was based on the analysis that there is a dichotomy between economic evolution and social evolution in the Brussels region i.e. a growth in highly skilled employment and a simultaneous growth in lower qualified unemployment. One of the goals of the Strategy is to increase durable labour participation of Brussels residents (54,4% in 2014)
Policy area
To which POLICY AREAS(s) does the initiative apply?
Funding
How it is funded?
Funded by regional government
The regional Brussels government funds the initiative
Skill mismatch
Skill mismatch target
What type(s) of skills MISMATCH does the initiative aim to addresses?
Skill shortages (employers cannot fill their vacancies due to a lack of skills in the labour market)
Skill gaps (worker's skills are below the level of proficiency required by their employers and jobs)
Skills obsolescence (some or all of an individual's skills are no longer relevant to the current employer or in the labour market generally)
Skills matching focus
How does the initiative address skills mismatches?
view.brussels adresses mismatches for the Brussels population through addressing the coherence, cross-checking and analysis of statistics on employment and training
Methods
Methods
What methods of undertaking skills assessments and / or skills anticipation does the policy instrument utilise?
Real-time labour market information (e.g. big data analysis of job advertisements, CVs)
view.stat which is one of view.brussels tools is updated monthly and provides key statistics on unemployment and vacancies in the Brussels region based on vacancies and unemployed registered at Actiris as well as partners
Other
view.brussels uses all available data on the labour market in the brussels region to perform statistical analysis to provide the full picture of the Brussels labour market and training and employment needs. These are data delivered by Actiris, Brussels Formation, BANSPA, and IBEFE and data on vacancies available through partnerwebsites.
Use of skills intelligence
How is labour market information / skills intelligence used within the initiative?
The labour market information and skills intelligence view.brussels produces is used by relevant actors to align training and employment needs in practice in the Brussels Region. Its role in the Training Plan 2020 is one of the most tangible results of the use of LMI.
Stakeholders
Main responsible body
Main body or organisation with overall responsibility for the initiative.
Regional agency
Bruxelles Formation (public service for vocational training)
Regional PES
Actiris (the Brussels PES)
Other involved organisations
Which other organisations have a role in the initiative?
view.brussels cooperates with the organizations below regarding the exchange of data on employment and training but as they are relevant stakeholders and actors in the Brussels region with regard to training and employment employment there is also collaboration regarding the other objectives of view.brussels (to formulate recommendations and to inform relevant actors and policy makers in the field of employment and training and provide technical support and expertise)
Social partner: employer organisation
The Brussels Advisory Council of Dutch-speaking Social Partners (Brusselse Adviesraad van Nederlandstalige Sociale Partners), BANSPA in short
Regional PES
VDAB Brussel
Training Providers
Local 'Basin' Authority for Qualifying Education, Training and Employment (Bassin enseignement-formation-emploi)
Beneficiaries
Who are the intended beneficiaries?
Other
The intended benificiaries of the initiative are the social, economic and institutional actors of the Brussels-Capital Region, the employers, employees and jobseekers of the Brussels-Capital Region
Sustainability
Success factors
SUCCESS FACTORS in the implementation
View.brussels is a research organization providing relevant LMI for the Brussels region, the implementation of the organization itself facilitated rapprochement between Actiris and Bruxelles Formation which can be seen as a succesfactor due to their joined task on the alignment of employment and training .
Monitoring and evaluation
MONITORING and EVALUATION: Is progress measured regularly? What are the indicators used to measure progress of the policy instrument? Have any evaluations been conducted?
view.brussels monitors progress yearly based on six indicators:
• Percentage of positive outflow after training per type of training;
• Percentage outflow to employment after vocational training;
• Sustainability of employment of those who became employed after vocational training;
• Time until start of employment of those who became employed after vocational training;
• Number of jobseekers transferred to Bruxelles Formation per reference organization and per field;
• Number of jobseekers enrolled in training (number of applications to start training).
• Percentage of positive outflow after training per type of training;
• Percentage outflow to employment after vocational training;
• Sustainability of employment of those who became employed after vocational training;
• Time until start of employment of those who became employed after vocational training;
• Number of jobseekers transferred to Bruxelles Formation per reference organization and per field;
• Number of jobseekers enrolled in training (number of applications to start training).
Updates
UPDATES: whether there have been any major updates of the initiative since it has been implemented?
No
the iniative is too new to have been updated already
Effectiveness
EVIDENCE ON EFFECTIVENESS: How effective is the policy instrument?
view.brussels is a recent initiative. Therefore it is too soon to have any real insight in the effectiveness of its work. Since its establishment view.brussels did develop two online tools, the Information about the Labor Market in Brussels online database (IAM-B) which provides infomation on professions by educational level and supply and demand and Viewstat which shows alll statistical information on the Brussels labour market
Sustainability
SUSTAINABILITY: How sustainable is the policy instrument? Do you expect the instrument to continue over the next few years and why?
it appears that view.brussels is a sustainable initiative as it fills a knowledge gap by its research. The Training 2020 plan, for example completely relied on their research.
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