Skills to Succeed: strong, local partnerships with social organizations to reduce unemployment and increase our impact as Corporate Citizens. Why not join us?
This article provides a snapshot of our Skills to Succeed activities and invites you to get involved, either as individuals or to request Accenture support for social projects that align with our Skills to Succeed goal and in which you are actively involved. Don’t hesitate to spread the word!
Accenture’s Skills to Succeed ambition is to equip more than 3 million people worldwide with the skills to get a job or build a business by 2020.
Since its launch in 2011, Skills to Succeed worldwide has already equipped more than 1 million people with workplace and entrepreneurial skills. We are doing this through strategic partnerships with different actors across the economy and society. By joining forces, we can generate large scale, sustainable and innovative solutions for tackling unemployment.
10 partners, 10,000 beneficiaries in BeLux
Our Skills to Succeed program in Belgium and Luxembourg is dynamic and growing. Early February, Accenture hosted the first ever Skills to Succeed event in Belgium, bringing together 52 participants and partners to co-create new ways of collaboration. This event built on our efforts of the past four years. In 2015 alone, 25% of BeLux people were involved in Skills to Succeed initiatives resulting in 13 pro bono projects, around 1000 man-days of Accenture consultancy, impacting 10,000 beneficiaries.
Around 10 strategic partnerships with local social organizations skilling disadvantaged youngsters include Maks vzw, Profo vzw, and YouthStart, plus organizations coaching young entrepreneurs to start small businesses (Groupe One, MicroStart…). We also support social entrepreneurs together with Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs. And with the Antwerp Integration Center’s Connect2Work initiative, our people are mentoring highly educated newcomers (refugees and other migrants) and helping them to find a job-at-level and integrate in Belgian society.
Read more about our partnership with Groupe One to create a digital toolbox in the Cloud that entrepreneurs use to increase their financial management skills.
If you are interested in getting involved in our BeLux Skills to Succeed initiatives, as a partner organization or as an individual, Please contact Magali Frankl for further information.
