Our company was born as a commercial trade entity with a European scope in 1996, becoming progressively oriented to providing competency-development human resources solutions and management support to start- ups and SMEs.
With 17 years of experience as an international consultant in a Belgian education and training firm (BIEF), Alexia Peyser decided to transfer her expertise, know-how and international network to further reinforce our consulting offer.
Our expertise covers today training and curricula elaboration, assessment and support to training and education institutions in Belgium and worldwide thanks to a multidisciplinary and multicultural team of experts. We are proud to provide and deploy our expertise in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese.
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Among our main strengths are:
Scientifically sound competency-based methodologies
Robust tools for education/training programs elaboration, assessment and monitoring
Technical support and steering of a large scope of capacity building projects
All the above, through an inclusive, people-oriented and contextualized perspective.
We are highly experienced in elaboration and conception of curricula and training programmes based on internationally proven methodological tools such as:
- Post and training referentials (training engineering approach) for SVET programme improvements
- End and entry (competency-oriented) profiles, terminal and intermediate competencies structuring and evaluation systems through problem-situations for general (primary and secondary) education.
20 years experience on competency-based programmes implementation in Angola, Andorra, Burundi, Mozambique, Central America, Vasque country, Lebanon, Madagascar, Vanuatu, Cap Vert, & Chile among others.
Mastering curricular and training methodologies allows us to transfer these skills into enhancing of institutional competency-development/evaluation and the monitoing and assessment of training programmes and services.
- Large experience in customized "Train the trainer" modules elaboration to ensure adhesion and ownership of innovations by key stakeholders.
- Monitoring and evaluation devices based in Project Cycle Management logic (such as LogFrame logic), Theory of Change, Result-Oriented management (ORM) and OCDE assessment criteria schema among other scientific references.
15 years experience in Training and evaluating training programmes, education projects (applications and finals results) for institutions such as Erasmus + (French Belgian Agency), VLIR-UOS & “BTSF” training programme from DG Santé (EC).
All the previous skills and technical education/training competences have been enriched by our sociological, psychological and anthropological background allowing us to broaden the scope of intervention to fields such as public health, project management and cooperation and development in general.
- Largely participative techniques based on a social constructivist approach and adult training theories so as to involve beneficiaries and end-users in all stages of the project conception and implementation. We strongly believe in making trainees active actors of their own learning processes.
- Concrete and "hands-on" vision of capacity building projects based on awareness raising, self-reflection and empowerment of beneficiaries through "research-action" tools (within a multidisciplinary perspective).
20 years of experience supporting capacity building programmes for several cooperation agencies, including ENABEL, as well as institutions such as UNESCO and UNICEF.
Emeritus professor of the University of Carthage (Tunisia), expert in language didactics and curricula elaboration/assessment.
Occasional collaborator.
SVET curricula and programmes expert.
Social and professional partners training and Institutional management expert.
Curricula and education expert.
Senior Education and training expert and evaluator.
Senior gender-education and training expert. Local capacity-building specialist.
Adults’ educator.
Masters in adult training and mental health UCLouvain.
Manager and administrative CEO.
Jean-Marie De Ketele, emeritus professor of UCLouvain and internationally renown education expert in competency-based approach theory and methodology. Author of numerous books on research and education and training development. Co-founder of the former Bureau d’ingénierie en Education et Formation (BIEF).
François-Marie Gerard, international expert in learning assessment and textbook elaboration according to the competency-based approach. Ex-project manager and deputy Director of the former BIEF.
New preschool methodological guide.
October 2024
The team of BIEFOR with the key support of M. Virginie BRISON is proud to present this new methodological tool for pre-school curricula and class planning issued from our experience and reflection.
Hoping to contribute to the urgent needs in pre-school education worldwide!
Assignment includes the pedagogical support, audit and follow-up of a large training programme in diverse domains concerning European public food health aiming at improving relevance, effectiveness and impact of the training offer.
Operators include various international training consortiums with funding from the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) - European Commission.
Next pedagogical audit: "Samples and Analysis", Greece, Oct-Nov 2024.
Team of 3 BIEFOR experts involved.
This digital and training support pilot project is carried out in consortium with our local partners (SOTERCO) and includes the evaluation and implementation of a training and digital infrastructure system for the benefit of Senegalese local authorities in order to facilitate distance training for public officials.
October 2024 - April 2025.
Funder: Communal Development Agency (ADM) of Senegal.
Team involved: 3 BIEFOR experts (+3 SOTERCO experts).
The technical support project includes the assessment of the training and infrastructure needs of 30 CEMs (rural and urban) supported by the PACEJ Programme from the world bank in Burundi.
2024.
Donor: World Bank.
Team involved: 5 BIEFOR experts.
Training program on competency-based approach and the development of an experimental process for the new university training programs for 20 disciplinary commissions.
October 2023 to January 2025.
Funder: UMCE.
Team involved: 1 BIEFOR expert.
This renewed collaboration includes analyzing and evaluating interuniversity research proposals in varied fields (agronomy, forestry, water management, education, public health, transport and energy) from different countries of Latin America to 2023-2024 VLIR-UOS funds.
De Ketele, Jean Marie
Professeur emeritus UCLouvain (Faculté PSP et cofounder of BIEF).
Michèle Garant
Professeure emeritus UCLouvain et ex-directrice de l’IPM
Michel Bonami
Professeur emeritus UCLouvain (PSP)
Christian Duque
UCLouvain. Administration des relations internationales (ADRI)
Gert Janseens
African projects coordinator at ENABEL (Belgian cooperation agency)
Renato Opertti
Postgraduate Porgramme officer at Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU) / Ex Education officer at BIE-UNESCO
Mª del Mar Duque García
Lecturer Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Former director of Director of OAPEE (Organismo Autónomo de Programas educativos Europeos) and National coordinator Erasmus Mundus Programme
Peter de Lannoy
Latin American Project Manager at VLIRUOS (Flemish University cooperation progarmme)
BIEFOR project information capsule (competency training).
Novella Foundation, Guatemala 2023-2024.
Training Ikastolas education and curricula staff on the competency-based methodology.
Vasque Country, 2012.
Master class on competency-based curricula challenges, inauguration of the international Conference APRENDO 2017.
Santo Domingo.
Experts roundtable on competencies evaluation at APRENDO 2017.
Santo Domingo.
Dissemination TV advertisement on National television of the "Teacher's Training Master Plan implementation" sponsored by Chevron between 2010-2013.
Example of teachers’ training capsule (oral competences in French).
ENABEL-BIEFOR, Burundi 2019.
Webinare in learning evaluation at "French as a second language teaching in Algeria; practice and perspectives", F. Marie Gérard, February 2021.
