This project brings together researches and stakeholders from the labour markets of three European countries (Belgium, France, the Netherlands*) around a shared objective: to test the relevance of the flexicurity approach at microeconomic level, courtesy of experimentation on the ground with flexicurity systems.

Based on inventorisation and analysis — carried out by the research teams — of existing flexibility/security compromise practices implemented at intra- and inter-organisational levels in the three partner countries, the idea is to experiment, in conjunction with the labour market stakeholders from the Liege and Lille labour pools, with a wide range of flexibility/security compromise practices that offer a response to the needs expressed by the local economic actors.

On the basis of these pilot projects, a participative and inductive work is to be carried out in conjunction with all of the project partners in order to agree on a shared conception of flexicurity, and to define the terms of its operationalisation.

* Researchers only