In 2021 and 2022, the Brussels-Capital Region’s four job-training centres trained nearly 15,000 people in 52 different professions, Brussels Minister for Employment and Vocational Training Bernard Clerfayt said on Tuesday.
The sectors benefiting from the training programme are construction, transport, the digital sector and technology.
The four poles, known as Logisticity, Construcity, Technicity and Digitalcity, are built on a structure that brings together the public players in vocational training, the public employment agency, Actiris, and the professional sector. Their mission is to organise, develop and promote training and employment in a given sector.
The training is offered to workers and job seekers. In 2021, 6,707 people were trained in one of the four poles, including 4,048 job seekers. In 2022, there were 7,832 trainees (+17%), of whom 4,646 (15%) were job seekers.
According to a recent study by View.brussels, 54% of job seekers land a contract after two years of unemployment compared to 71% of those who have undergone training. At Technicity, this job placement rate rises to 89.5%.
Drop-out rates decreased between 2021 and 2022, from 23.6% to 19% for Construcity, from 17% to 9.6% for Digitalcity, from 16.4% to 5.4% for Logisticity and from 26.1% to 11.3% for Technicity.
“Not only are more Brussels residents training in the transport and logistics, construction, technical industry and digital sectors, but moreover, fewer and fewer of them are dropping out of their training, the lever to be activated to enable more Brussels residents to get jobs,” Minister Clerfayt commented in a statement.
