Working, enterprise and investment

Working in Flanders, recruiting foreign workers, recognition of qualifications

Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) supports your company when you want to do business in or from Flanders.

If you are a foreign national and want to work in Belgium as a self-employed person, you will need a professional card. This gives you permission to…

Business activity is essential: companies generate added value, income and prosperity. However, such business activity requires space: workshops,…

If you want to build or renovate a house or start a company in Flanders, you must check whether you need an integrated environmental permit.

By means of this measure enterprises or groups of enterprises that make sizeable commercial investments and educational efforts in the Flemish…

The SME wallet is a web application through which entrepreneurs can obtain €10,000 to €15,000 of subsidies each year, supporting their further…

An ecology bonus is a financial subsidy for SMEs and large companies realising ecology investments in the Flemish Region. With the ecology bonus,…

This measure provides a financial incentive to companies that are going to make ecological investments in the Flemish Region. In this way, the…

Subsidy for investments in ecological and safe transport of goods by road.

Companies in electricity-intensive sectors can have a high electricity bill as an indirect result of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU…

Hindrance from roadworks in the neighborhood of your premises? No need to take action. You will receive a letter from us should you qualify for a…

Subsidy for enterprises extending or reinforcing their research and development activities. Via a research project, Flanders Innovation &…

Subsidy for innovations that play a key role in achieving a business case that can strengthen your business. Innovation as a motor for your business…

Innovation mandates provide support to postdoctoral researchers who wish to deploy active efforts to achieve the effective transfer, the…

With Baekeland mandates, Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship aims to give individual researchers the opportunity to carry out a PhD in close…

Want to work in childcare in Flanders? In that case, you can start your own childcare setting for babies, toddlers and/or schoolchildren. To do so,…

EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) is a voluntary environmental management system for organisations that want to improve their environmental…