The Center of Sociology of Work, Employment and Training (TEF) of the Free University of Brussels (ULB) is a multidisciplinary research team (sociology, economy, psychology, public management), currently made up of 15 people.
The TEF specializes in studies of work organisation, labour market process
and the evolution of sectors as well as employment and unemployment policies,
whether or not directed towards Target publics (women, young people, immigrants,
long-term unemployed).
All research includes a gender dimension and gives a central place to the sectoral framework, the evolution of qualifications and competencies and to the professional transitions, in particular the professional trajectories in which the TEF has developed a strong expertise.
The TEF also has a thorough knowledge of the migratory policy of Belgium and Europe and of the labour market concerning ethnic minorities and migrants. For more than 10 years, its works have dealt with access to the job market, initial and professional training of young people and women, as well as housing, undocumented migrants and racism.
The expertise of the TEF has been requested by various national (Ministry of labour, Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism) and international (OECD) institutions and by European and euro-Mediterranean research and monitoring networks on international migrations.
The TEF researchers founded, in 1995, the Group of Studies on Ethnicity, Racism, Migrations and Exclusion (GERME).
Matéo ALALUF, Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Vice-president of the Institute of work. Member of the TEF research team.
Nouria OUALI, Sociologist, in charge of research at the TEF, assistant at the Department of social, political and economic sciences at the ULB. Founder member of the GERME. She coordinates the group of research « Gender and Migration » at the Institut of Sociology.
Andrea REA, Ph.D. in Social Sciences, is a collaborator of the team, Ph.D. in Social Sciences, lecturer attached to the Department of social, political and economic sciences at the ULB. Coordinator of the GERME.
