The European Union and its Member States, including Belgium, will have to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. A process is underway to adopt reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. As such, the European Commission proposed a 90% reduction target compared to the 1990 level. The analyses currently available at both European and Belgian level indicate that the two sectors in which it will be particularly difficult or costly to achieve a net zero emission target (“hard-to-abate sectors) are industry and agriculture. Industry is a particularly heterogeneous sector for which a good overview of the technical and economic potential is sorely lacking in Belgium. Existing scenarios indicate a wide range of residual emissions in industry that will need to be mitigated with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS/CCUS) or offset by removals.
This project will bring a much more detailed analysis, taking into account the latest technological developments and their costs, to reach a better understanding of federal, regional and even local policies to support the decarbonisation of industry in Belgium. It will also allow to better anticipate the needs in terms of CCS and connect with public policies relating to carbon removals. The objective is also to better understand, from a macro point of view, the implications of the technological options for the long-term decarbonisation of the main industries in Belgium (including steel, cement and lime production, refining, chemistry, etc.).

It is well-known that the job content of social workers often does not correspond to the needs of the Public Centre for Social Welfare’s target groups. It often turns out that a too high (administrative) workload prevents social workers from devoting the optimal amount of time to the personal guidance of the target group.
One of the reasons for the problem would be that the “content” part of the social worker's job is under pressure. In other words, the social worker has to devote too much worktime to “administrative tasks”.
This Flash study will map the administrative processes as well as their impact, which lead to the high workload of social workers. The project should determine whether it is possible to reduce part of this administrative workload. Consequently, this would allow more attention to be paid to personal counselling of the target group, and thus to higher socio-economic integration.