InBegrepen, collectief voor ervaringskennis

What InBegrepen, collectief voor ervaringskennis does

InBegrepen Coöperatie UA is a Dutch cooperative of self-employed professional experiential experts (ervaringsdeskundigen) founded in 2021 by Heleen Wadman, Marcel Niezen, and Michael Kaptein and headquartered in Groningen, with parallel foundation entity Stichting InBegrepen. It is positioned as the first national cooperative of its kind in the Netherlands, established to professionalize the deployment of experiential knowledge — lived personal experience of mental health, addiction, trauma, poverty, youth care, and related domains — into client organizations.

The cooperative delivers four service modules to municipalities, healthcare providers, educational institutions, social-domain organizations, and companies: Beleid en advies (policy and advisory), Onderzoek en innovatie (research and innovation), Organisatie- en teamontwikkeling (organization and team development), and Training en individuele coaching (training and individual coaching). Underlying these services is an online matching platform that pairs each client question with the expert whose training, expertise, and skills best fit the assignment; experts are deployed as advisors, staff members, or project leaders depending on project needs.

Commercially, InBegrepen operates a project-based professional services model with quote-driven, non-public pricing and no disclosed revenue. The cooperative is funded almost entirely through member-owned contributions and a one-time 2021 establishment subsidy from the Grijsfonds (a Lentis–Gemeente Groningen collaboration). It serves clients nationwide via direct sales, the online platform, and professional referral networks, with the website and LinkedIn as primary digital surfaces and direct email/WhatsApp contact for inbound engagement.

Name

InBegrepen, collectief voor ervaringskennis

Legal name

InBegrepen Coöperatie UA

Website

https://inbegrepen.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

InBegrepen is a Dutch cooperative of self-employed professional experiential experts, founded in 2021 in Groningen, that matches lived-experience consultants to municipalities, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and social-domain organizations for policy, research, organizational development, and training projects across the Netherlands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Experiential Expertise Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Communication, Collaboration & Conflict Resolution Skills (EDAMAIAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Sales, Customer Service & Soft Skills Training (BPACANAD)

Keywords

• Experiential expertise services
• Peer support consulting
• Mental health advisory
• Recovery-oriented training
• Social domain consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Groningen

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Project-based Experiential Expertise Services: Self-employed experiential experts are deployed on a project basis. Organizations and governments engage InBegrepen for specific assignments related to policy, research, organizational development, training, and coaching. The cooperative facilitates the matching and provides professional positioning.
2. Individual Expert Deployment: Experts are selected based on their training level, expertise, and work experience, and deployed as advisors, staff members, or project leaders depending on the assignment requirements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

InBegrepen is a cooperative of self-employed, professionally trained experiential experts (ervaringsdeskundigen) who are matched and deployed into client projects. Its core offering is the supply of experiential expertise to organizations, governments, and companies across four service modules: policy and advisory, research and innovation, organization and team development, and training and individual coaching. Clients contact the cooperative, which selects the best-fit expert based on the question, desired expertise, and other required skills.

Product overview

InBegrepen is a cooperative of self-employed, professional experiential experts offering four interconnected service modules: Beleid en advies (policy and advisory), Onderzoek en innovatie (research and innovation), Organisatie- en teamontwikkeling (organization and team development), and Training en individuele coaching (training and individual coaching). The organization acts as a collective hub connecting organizations and governments with experienced experts who bring lived experience to projects in healthcare, social services, and policy development. Rather than a software platform, InBegrepen functions as a talent-matching service where experts are deployed based on their training level, expertise, and work experience.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Beleid en advies (Policy and Advisory)

Quantifiable outcome

• InBegrepen provides a national first as the first cooperative connecting self-employed experiential experts across domains
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Welkom in de Buurt Project (Zuidoost-Drenthe)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021The Welkom in de Buurt project in Zuidoost-Drenthe provided the one-time subsidy that helped secure the finances for founding InBegrepen. This project collaboration demonstrated the need and value of experiential expertise deployment.
• Entrepreneurs in the Social DomaincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSeveral entrepreneurs in the social domain collaborated with the three founders (Heleen Wadman, Marcel Niezen, and Michael Kaptein) to establish the cooperative, providing entrepreneurial expertise and support in the founding process.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Vilans: Dutch national knowledge center for long-term care, advising and supporting care organizations with expertise, research, and innovation. Comparable to InBegrepen's organization-and-team-development and research-and-innovation offerings in the healthcare vertical.
• Trimbos-instituut: Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, a leading knowledge institute that integrates experiential expertise into research, training, and policy. Comparable to InBegrepen in the GGZ and addiction domain, with much larger scale and broader scope.
• Movisie: Dutch knowledge institute for the social domain, providing advice, training, and tooling to municipalities and welfare organizations. Comparable to InBegrepen in serving municipalities and social-domain organizations with professional expertise deployment.
• Stichting MIND: Dutch national platform for people with mental health conditions and their networks; coordinates lived-experience input across advocacy, policy, and research. Comparable to InBegrepen as an institutional channel for experiential expertise, though operating as a broader advocacy/membership body rather than a paid expert-deployment cooperative.
• De Nederlandse GGZ: Dutch trade association for mental health and addiction care providers, representing institutions and coordinating sector policy. Comparable to InBegrepen as an institutional stakeholder shaping Dutch GGZ demand for experiential expertise.

Direct peers

• GGZ Ecademy: Dutch e-learning and training provider focused on experiential expertise and recovery-oriented care within mental health. Comparable to InBegrepen's training-and-coaching service line, though operating through digital courses rather than deployed experts.
• Stichting Samen voor Herstel: Dutch foundation focused on recovery and experiential expertise in mental health, deploying peer support and recovery-oriented services. Listed as a partner of InBegrepen and directly comparable as a recovery-support organization in the GGZ domain.
• Kenniscentrum Phrenos: Dutch knowledge center focused on severe mental illness that deploys expertise into research, training, and organizational development. Directly comparable to InBegrepen's research-and-innovation and team-development service modules, particularly for GGZ and recovery-oriented care.
• ImROC (Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change): UK-based consultancy helping mental health organizations implement recovery-oriented practice through training and organizational change. Directly comparable to InBegrepen's organization-and-team-development and training modules, with a similar mission-driven ethos.

Regional players

• Lister: UK-based mental health charity providing supported housing and recovery services with significant peer-support and lived-experience involvement. Conceptually comparable to InBegrepen's deployment of experiential experts in recovery-oriented service delivery, though UK-focused.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/inbegrepen-co%C3%B6peratie-voor-ervaringskennis

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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