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2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14678314 |
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- The Flemish labour market for engineers is marked by a striking paradox of both scarcity and growing unemployment. Looking at numbers provided by VDAB (Flemish Service for Employment and Vocational Training), we see that on the one hand an increasing number of vacancies for engineers is not filled(at the end of August 2016, 3942 vacancies were open [1]), while on the other hand more and more engineers are registered as job-seekers (in the same period there were 2248). In three years' time there is even a tripling of the engineering shortage (from 2214 vacancies at the end of 2013 to 4120 at the end of 2016). The actual shortage is probably even larger, as not all vacancies are registered with VDAB by companies. Especially over-50s and immigrants are having a hard time (re)integrating into the labour market. For both groups the chances of recruitment are higher when competencies can be demonstrated through workplace learning or internships. Add to this the fact that long-term unemployed engineers need a knowledge update (as their knowledge is obsolete and/or because they have to look further than the domain in which they have specialized for many years), and the principle of dual learning emerges. That concept of dual learning can be applied to all long-term job seekers. In September 2016 a follow-up project for the Postgraduate Programme in Innovation & Entrepreneurship in engineering was approved by VLAIO (Agency Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship). One of the additional goals of the project was exactly this (re)integration of unemployed engineers. The programme is a cooperation between all Flemish universities, and very early during the process, a partnership agreement with VDAB was signed for this project. Representatives from all universities and VDAB formed a project team and named the pilot project WINWIN ("Werkzoekende INgenieurs Werken aan INnovatie"). The pilot project took place in academic year 2017-2018.