Cité des Métiers de Namur

What Cité des Métiers de Namur does

Cité des Métiers de Namur is a non-profit public career guidance and orientation service, part of the Carrefours et Cités des Métiers network that operates 13 physical locations across Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium. Its core offering centers on four interconnected service pathways — S'orienter (career assessment), Apprendre (training guidance), Entreprendre (entrepreneurial support), and Travailler (employment assistance) — delivered through in-person counseling by professional advisors, supported by Orientascan, an online self-assessment tool that routes users into the appropriate pathway. The user base spans job seekers, career changers, students, and aspiring entrepreneurs across the Walloon and Brussels-Capital regions.

The underlying technology is intentionally lightweight: a digital orientation platform (Orientascan) paired with a distributed physical counseling network. Orientascan functions as a front-end interactive questionnaire producing personalized recommendations, while the bulk of value creation occurs through human advisors in physical offices. The organization does not appear to use AI/ML models in its core product, with its only AI-related activity being the Smart-Lux'IA youth awareness initiative in Luxembourg province.

The business model is non-commercial. Services are provided free of charge to end users, with operations funded by the Wallonia regional government and European Union programs. The legal entity Carrefours et Cités des Métiers operates as a public employment and orientation service rather than a revenue-generating enterprise; no pricing, revenue, or ARR is disclosed. Distribution is entirely through the physical location network and the website, with partnerships such as the strategic alliance with IFAPME (vocational training provider) extending the service catalog without a commercial transaction layer.

Name

Cité des Métiers de Namur

Legal name

Carrefours et Cités des Métiers

Website

https://cdmnamur.be

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cité des Métiers de Namur is a non-profit public career guidance service within a 13-location Wallonia-Brussels network, offering free in-person counseling and the Orientascan digital self-assessment tool to job seekers, students, entrepreneurs, and career changers, funded by the Wallonia regional government and EU programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Namur

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public Funding: As a public employment and career guidance service in Wallonia and Brussels, the organization is funded by regional government (Wallonia) and European Union sources. Services are provided free of charge to end users.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cité des Métiers de Namur provides free in-person career counseling and orientation services through a network of physical offices, supported by the Orientascan online self-assessment tool. Services cover four pathways: career assessment (S'orienter), training guidance (Apprendre), entrepreneurial support (Entreprendre), and employment assistance (Travailler), delivered to individual job seekers, students, and aspiring entrepreneurs in Wallonia and Brussels.

Product overview

Cité des Métiers de Namur is part of a network of 13 Carrefours et Cités des Métiers career guidance centers across Wallonia and Brussels. The organization offers a unified service platform centered on Orientascan, an online orientation tool, complemented by four interconnected counseling pathways: S'orienter (career assessment), Apprendre (training guidance), Entreprendre (entrepreneurial support), and Travailler (employment assistance). These services are delivered through physical offices and advisors who provide personalized guidance to help users reorient, acquire new skills, or launch businesses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Orientascan An online self-assessment tool that provides personalized career orientation advice and recommendations based on user responses, helping individuals advance their professional projects. It is offered free of charge to job seekers, students, and aspiring entrepreneurs in Wallonia and Brussels.
• S'orienter (Orientation Pathway) A free career assessment counseling service that helps individuals take stock of their interests, skills, and competencies to identify their professional path. Delivered through personalized sessions with professional guidance counselors at the organization's physical offices.
• Apprendre (Learning Pathway) A free educational guidance service that helps individuals find training programs or studies adapted to their needs and aspirations, including connections to partner offerings such as IFAPME programs.
• Entreprendre (Entrepreneurship Pathway) A free entrepreneurial support service that helps aspiring entrepreneurs identify resources, develop their business ideas, and bring entrepreneurial projects to life through personalized counseling.
• Travailler (Working Pathway) A free employment support service that helps individuals optimize their job search and concretize their professional project through personalized guidance from professional counselors.

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly 2 participants attended the closing event of the Smart-Lux'IA project in Luxembourg province

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• IFAPME (Institut de Formation Permanente pour les Métiers et les Entreprises)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFAPME is a key strategic partner that provides professional training programs. The organization promotes IFAPME's training offerings to users, including new programs in 20 sectors and a new qualified professional diploma for the 2026 academic year. This partnership enriches the service offering by connecting users with relevant vocational training opportunities.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi): France's national public employment agency offering career guidance, training, and unemployment benefits across the country. Operates at vastly larger scale than Cité des Métiers de Namur but provides the same core functions of career orientation and employment support within the broader Francophone public employment ecosystem.
• Euroguidance: European network of national career guidance resource centers funded by the European Commission. Directly comparable in mission (career guidance for mobility and lifelong learning) and in alignment with EU funding frameworks that also support the Wallonia-Brussels network.
• EURES: European job mobility portal run by the European Commission to support cross-border employment within the EEA. Comparable in EU institutional alignment and public-employment focus, and partially overlaps with the international/cross-border career guidance services that the Cité des Métiers network could expand into.

Regional players

• ADEM (Agence pour le Développement de l'Emploi): Luxembourg's national public employment service providing career guidance, training referrals, and job-matching support. Comparable in public-service employment model and Francophone administrative context, though operating in a neighboring country.
• VDAB: Flemish public employment and vocational training service for the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Comparable in mission and public-service model to Le Forem and the Cité des Métiers network, but serving a different linguistic/geographic community in Belgium.

Direct peers

• Actiris: Brussels-Capital Region's public employment service providing career guidance, training, and job-matching support. Directly comparable as a French-speaking Belgian public employment organization with overlapping service scope to the Cité des Métiers network's Brussels locations.
• Le Forem: Wallonia's primary public employment and vocational training service, operating across the same region as Cité des Métiers de Namur. Both organizations serve job seekers, students, and career changers in Wallonia with public funding and overlapping service portfolios (career guidance, training referrals, employment support).
• Cité des Métiers (Paris): The original Cité des Métiers concept launched in Paris in 1993, providing free in-person career counseling through a network of physical locations. Closely comparable in mission, model, and naming convention to the Wallonia-Brussels network.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

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