How should a medium-sized city talk about innovation? That was the question that Mechelen’s municipality asked us, Trendhuis. We decided to formulate an answer in the form of a cookbook using the experiences from Bruges, Delft, Mechelen, and Saint-Quentin. After all, these four medium-sized cities formed, together with their professional partners, the European project SCIFI. SCIFI, which stands here for…
Reinforcement in the workplace! Trendhuis wants to help solve a problem in our labour market by inviting more people with a disability on the work floor and wants to do so through the Welcome2Work project. Statbel’s statistics indicated that in 2020 only 40.8% of people between the ages of 20 and 64 with a disability had a job in Belgium….
Is burnout feminine or masculine? Is burn-out a modern container concept or is it actually a work related issue? The facts are that in recent years more and more people suffer from it, this trend is not slowing down, and new policies around burn-out are introduced all the time. According to the KULeuven’s Work, Organisation, and Employee Psychology[1] research facility,…
We and Work was awarded the title of most inclusive enterprise of the year. What prize accompanied this honour? A training in which the SDG-FITplan was applied to their company. You can find the SDG-FITplan in Bob Elsen and Nathalie Bekx’ book “Travel Towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship with the SDGs as your Compass”. The idea is to have a workable system…
