View.brussels: the Brussels Observatory for Employment Training

Policy development
Regulation/Legislation
Belgium-FR
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Timeline
  • 2017Approved/Agreed
ID number
28022

Background

A brief overview of the context and rationale of the policy development, explaining why it is implemented or why it is important.

Information on the employability and destinations of VET graduates is important for targeted planning. By analysing these data, future VET programmes can be adjusted to labour market needs.

Objectives

Goals and objectives of the policy development.

To ensure quality of VET provisions and labour market relevance of VET skills and qualifications.

Description

What/How/Who/For whom/When of the policy development in detail, explaining its activities and annual progress, main actors and target groups.

In 2017, the Brussels Observatory for Employment changed its name and modified its missions to become view.brussels, the Brussels Observatory for Employment and Training. In response to the 2020 Training plan, which deepens the objectives of the 2025 strategy, it was decided to integrate and develop a number of specific missions in terms of the transition from employment to training.

View.brussels is in charge of:

  1. observing and analysing the job market in the Brussels Region and defining skill needs and shortages in the labour market;
  2. anticipating needs in terms of employment and training;
  3. monitoring, analysing and evaluating the employment-training-employment transitions;
  4. providing support and technical expertise to enlighten those involved in employment and training and feed their thinking.

To meet these challenges, view.brussels collaborates with various partners, the main ones being Bruxelles Formation, VDAB Brussel, Bassin Education-Formation-Emploi and Banspa.

2017
Approved/Agreed

Bodies responsible

This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
  • view.brussels (Brussels Observatory for Employment and Training)

Target groups

Those who are positively and directly affected by the measures of the policy development; those on the list are specifically defined in the EU VET policy documents. A policy development can be addressed to one or several target groups.

Education professionals

  • Guidance practitioners

Entities providing VET

  • Companies
  • VET providers (all kinds)

Other stakeholders

  • Social partners (employer organisations and trade unions)

Thematic categories

Thematic categories capture main aspects of the decision-making and operation of national VET and LLL systems. These broad areas represent key elements that all VET and LLL systems have to different extents and in different combinations, and which come into focus depending on the EU and national priorities. Thematic categories are further divided into thematic sub-categories. Based on their description, policy developments can be assigned to one or several thematic categories.

Governance of VET and lifelong learning

This thematic category looks at existing legal frameworks providing for strategic, operational – including quality assurance – and financing arrangements for VET and lifelong learning (LLL). It examines how VET and LLL-related policies are placed in broad national socioeconomic contexts and coordinate with other strategies and policies, such as economic, social and employment, growth and innovation, recovery and resilience.

This thematic category covers partnerships and collaboration networks of VET stakeholders – especially the social partners – to shape and implement VET in a country, including looking at how their roles and responsibilities for VET at national, regional and local levels are shared and distributed, ensuring an appropriate degree of autonomy for VET providers to adapt their offer.

The thematic category also includes efforts to create national, regional and sectoral skills intelligence systems (skills anticipation and graduate tracking) and using skills intelligence for making decisions about VET and LLL on quality, inclusiveness and flexibility.

Coordinating VET and other policies

This thematic sub-category refers to the integration of VET into economic, industrial, innovation, social and employment strategies, including those linked to recovery, green and digital transitions, and where VET is seen as a driver for innovation and growth. It includes national, regional, sectoral strategic documents or initiatives that make VET an integral part of broader policies, or applying a mix of policies to address an issue VET is part of, e.g. in addressing youth unemployment measures through VET, social and active labour market policies that are implemented in combination. National skill strategies aiming at quality and inclusive lifelong learning also fall into this sub-category.

Establishing and developing skills intelligence systems

High-quality and timely skills intelligence is a powerful policy tool, helping improve economic competitiveness and fostering social progress and equality through the provision of targeted skills training to all citizens (Cedefop, 2020). Skills intelligence is the outcome of an expert-driven process of identifying, analysing, synthesising and presenting quantitative and/or qualitative skills and labour market information. Skills intelligence draws on data from multiple sources, such as graduate tracking systems, skills anticipation mechanisms, including at sectoral and regional levels. Actions related to establishing and developing such systems fall under this thematic sub-category.

Subsystem

Part of the vocational education and training and lifelong learning systems the policy development applies to.
IVET
CVET

Further reading

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Country

Belgium-FR

Type of development

Policy developments are divided into three types: strategy/action plan; regulation/legislation; and practical measure/initiative.
Regulation/Legislation
Cite as

Cedefop, & ReferNet. (2025). View.brussels: the Brussels Observatory for Employment Training: Belgium-FR. In Cedefop, & ReferNet. (2025). Timeline of VET policies in Europe (2024 update) [Online tool].

https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/tools/timeline-vet-policies-europe/search/28022