Another way to discover the Social Economy!
In parallel to the workshops and round tables on the 2 afternoons, enterprises visits are organised. Various sectors of activity are represented on these visits.
Three tours are offered each day: 2 in the Liège area and 1 in Flanders. The number of places is limited to 25 people per tour in the Liège periphery and 50 in the Flemish region.
The event is FULLY BOOKED.
Registrations for visits are currently being processed.
Confirmation will be sent depending on available places.
10 enterprises open their doors to you.
Find out more about the program and the proposed enterprises:
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TOUR 4 Liège region |
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| TOUR 2 Liège region |
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TOUR 5 Liège region |
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| TOUR 3 Flanders |
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TOUR 6 Flanders |
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Founded in 1983 under the name '1001 choses à faire', Step Group is one of the few social economy groups in Wallonia.
Its activities are primarily focused on social and professional integration (training, employment, support), advice to the social economy sector and promotion of its models, and assistance to litigants.
With 15 entities, Step Group employs 450 people and trains over 700 trainees a year.
The Comptoirs des Ressources Créatives (CRC) network is a platform of material and immaterial services for creators, craftspeople and artists. It provides shared spaces, support, knowledge-sharing and networking. The CRC does not replace what already exists, but reinforces the local ecosystem in a responsible and sustainable way. Thanks to the various CRC locations, thousands of entrepreneurs are supported within a single network.
The visit will be followed by a presentation of Dynamo Coop (https://www.dynamocoop.be/ ). Dynamo Coop is a real estate cooperative serving the community, with the aim of facilitating citizen ownership of sites dedicated to cultural and artisanal research, production and distribution on a multi-generational scale. To realise this ambition, the cooperative acquires buildings through participatory financing to keep them free from property speculation and make them available to projects that contribute to a collective creative development.
The cooperative Vin de Liège, whose project began in 2009 and marketed its first wines in 2015, was born at the heart of the associative movement in Liège. The ambition of its founders is to show that another economic model is possible. The cooperative defines a series of objectives to reconcile enterprise with human and environmental values: producing quality wines that respect the environment, playing a symbolic role in the economic redeployment of Liège, creating jobs and social reintegration training internships, and offering an alternative, socially responsible and sustainable economic model with long-term financial profitability.
JEAN DEL'COUR is an adapted work enterprise whose social objective is the socio-professional integration of people with disabilities. Today, the JD'C group employs over 600 workers on 3 sites (Grâce-Hollogne, Hauts-Sarts and Plénesses).
JD'C is active in packaging/logistics, electricity/connectics, composite materials, maintenance of green spaces/renovation of social housing.
De Winning is a social economy enterprise that aims to make the world better and greener. They strive for a labor market where there is a place for everyone, including people with intellectual disabilities, psychosocial problems, language barriers, and more. The activities focus on nature and green management, employing around 270 people. They guide and coach them to unfold their talents and employment opportunities.
Activities: They maintain parks, create cycling and riding paths, sow the most beautiful flower meadows, remove unwanted exotic plants, and more.
Les Grignoux, a cultural social economy non-profit association, was founded over 45 years ago and now runs 13 cinemas at three sites in Liège and, since 2016, one in Namur. It also offers the public 3 horeca spaces: café le Parc, brasserie Sauvenière and Caféo, directly connected to its cinemas.
The association’s main objectives are to offer an alternative to the dominant culture and to enable the widest possible audience to discover quality films in optimal conditions (financial accessibility, reception, display, information, etc.). Grignoux's cinemas promote the best recent films in their original subtitled version (premieres with directors and film crews, special evenings, conferences and debates with the associative world, etc.).
Employing over 150 workers, the association is self-managed and welcomes around two thousand people a day, all activities included.
In 2018, the social purpose cooperative Novacitis won the City of Liège’s call for projects for the redevelopment of the former joinery site. La Menuiserie will be the first enterprise centre in Wallonia dedicated to entrepreneurs making the transition to a sustainable and decent economy. The centre will include offices, shared spaces, meeting areas, a food service space as well as a shared kitchen area.
The visit will be followed by a presentation of iES!, Wallonia's social economy incubator, which will move into La Menuiserie's offices in 2024.
Founded in 1949, the Terre group's mission is to " Contribute to the creation of a democratic and fairer world where every human being has the right to live in dignity, to fulfil his or her potential with mutual respect and concern for future generations ".
As a result, around ten social economy enterprises have been created or integrated. Long-term socio-professional integration, participative governance through direct democracy, citizenship education and economic profitability are the pillars of the current project.
Traditionally active in the recycling and international cooperation sectors, the group has also expanded into the fields of construction, housing and social support. The group currently employs 430 people.
The following 3 areas will be visited:
Bewel is a social economy enterprise in Flanders that employs people with a distance to the labor market. With 2,200 employees and 8 locations, Bewel is one of the largest employers in the Flemish province of Limburg. Bewel works not only in its own workshops but also at customer sites in various sectors. As an expert in more than 10 process-driven activities, Bewel is able to offer tailor-made work to its employees, based on their abilities.
Bewel’s activities include: work on location, textile, mailing, bookbinding, green maintenance, quality control, screen printing, logistics, circular economy, packaging, assembly.