About Brainport voor Elkaar

Our Vision 

Our vision is to make Brainport a socially strong region. We want a region wher technological progress goes hand in hand with social innovation. In our ideal future, everyone contributes to and benefits form the prosperity of the Brainport region, regardless of their talent, background or social status. In this way, we will build together a region where everyone has oppurtunities and can live, work and learn comfortably. 

Our Mission

As an association, our mission is to strengthen the cooperation between segments and parties and to use this cooperation to tackle social challenges together. Challenges we cannot and will not solve alone. In doing so, we have a direct reach to the many thousands of workers and their families in the region, to pupils and students at educational institutions, to civil society organisations and the people they support. Thus, together we develop solutions that apply to all residents and make a positive impact on the entire region. 

Our ambitions

Everyone can participate. This is what Brainport voor Elkaar stands for. The members of Brainport voor Elkaar take joint responsibility for contributing to a future-proof, inclusive Brainport region. A region where as many people as possible have suitable jobs, are debt-free, vital, socially engaged and have sufficient language and digital skills. 

Social innovation

We work together on social innnovation. This is at the heart of how we work. Together, we drive innovations that we can deploy sustainably. The parties within Brainport voor Elkaar each have their own expertise. We exploit this expertise and the innovative power of the region by setting up new collaborations between social partners an social initiatives, municipalities and semi-public organisations, companies, including the many SMEs in our region, and ecucational and knowledgde institutions for pre-school to research institutites. In this way, we arrive at effective solutions to social issues in the region and strengthen civil society organisations an social initiatives. These solutions have a wider reach than if each party works on social issues alone. 

Social employment: spotting early and creating opportunities

Social employment is becoming the standard for this region, form SMEs to the largest educational institution, local welfare organisation or regional municipality. A good employer is a social, socially engaged employer. We therefore encourage our members tot actively contribute to the well-being of employees, their families and to a liveable environment. Employers can identify problems early, make them discussable and tackle them in a targeted way. They are and important link in the chain our programmes. Employers also have a crucial rol in providing livelihood security and offering opportunities and future prospects to people who are not yet working. Moreover, they can volunteer their employees with knowledge and talent to charities and social organisations in the region.