SOCIEUX+

What SOCIEUX+ does

SOCIEUX+ is an EU-funded technical cooperation facility established in 2016 under Grant Agreement DCI-HUM/2016/377-043 and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. It exists to support public-sector reforms in social protection, labour, and employment policy across 35+ partner countries, primarily in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. The facility is jointly financed by the European Commission's DG INTPA and the governments of France, Spain, and Belgium, and is implemented by a consortium led by Expertise France with BELINCOSOC, FIIAPP, and Enabel as partners.

The facility's core service is the rapid, demand-driven mobilization of senior public-sector experts (144 experts in the most recent reporting period) to deliver short-term peer-to-peer technical assistance to government counterparts. Around this expert-mobilization core, SOCIEUX+ has built a small digital infrastructure: a Moodle-based e-learning platform hosting self-paced courses (including a 2023 course on inequality and a 2025 course on equitable Social Health Protection), an internal Project Management Tool for coordinating activities, and a set of knowledge products including newsletters, podcasts, country studies, and a publicly searchable activity database. It maintains 55 institutional partnerships and has completed 100+ remote activities since inception.

The business model is grant-funded and non-commercial: there is no fee-for-service revenue. Funds flow from the EU budget and three member-state co-financers through the four-agency implementing consortium. The original grant carried an end date of July 2024, but operations have continued into 2025, indicating renewed EU commitment. SOCIEUX+ operates with a lean core staff of 22 employees, with the bulk of technical delivery sourced from externally mobilized European public-sector specialists.

Name

SOCIEUX+

Legal name

Expertise France

Website

https://socieux.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SOCIEUX+ is an EU-funded technical cooperation facility, established in 2016 and based in Brussels, that mobilizes senior public sector experts to support social protection, labour, and employment reforms across 35+ partner countries worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

International Technical Cooperation

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

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Learning Experience Platforms (LXP) & Learning Portals

Education/Education Technology (EdTech) & Digital Learning/Learning Management Systems (LMS) & Learning Experience Platforms (LXP)

Keywords

• International technical cooperation
• Social protection advisory
• Public employment services
• Capacity building services
• Peer-to-peer expertise

Headquarters

HQ city

Brussels

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. EU and Government Funding: SOCIEUX+ is set up and co-funded by the European Union through DG INTPA and the governments of France, Spain, and Belgium. It is a grant-funded facility providing free technical cooperation to partner countries — there is no revenue generation from services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

SOCIEUX+ is a grant-funded EU technical cooperation facility that mobilises European public-sector experts to deliver peer-to-peer advisory services, capacity-building workshops, study visits, training, and remote e-learning to partner-country government institutions on social protection, labour, and employment systems. Services are provided free of charge to eligible partner countries through a demand-driven request process.

Product overview

SOCIEUX+ is a technical cooperation facility funded by the EU and implemented by Expertise France, Belgian International Cooperation on Social Protection (BELINCOSOC), FIIAPP, and Enabel. It offers a portfolio of products and services focused on social protection, labour and employment: (1) Technical Cooperation Services through peer-to-peer exchange of European public experts with partner institutions worldwide; (2) an E-learning Platform (Moodle-based) hosting courses including 'Acting Upon Inequality' and 'How to design equitable Social Health protection'; (3) Knowledge Products including reports and metapapers on topics like climate change and informal sector access; and (4) a Project Management Tool for managing expert calls and cooperation applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Technical Cooperation Services Peer-to-peer technical cooperation services connecting European public-sector experts with partner country institutions to strengthen social protection, labour, and employment systems. Includes expert mobilisation, workshops, study visits, and capacity-building activities delivered on demand at no cost to partner institutions.
• SOCIEUX+ E-learning Platform Moodle-based multilingual e-learning platform hosting SOCIEUX+ courses and remote technical cooperation activities. Supports EN, ES, FR, PT, BS, ME, SQ, SR, MK, MN, RU and AR. Has facilitated over 100 remote activities with 55 partners and 144 experts across 35 countries.
• Project Management Tool (PMT) Online platform at pmt.socieux.eu for managing calls for experts and technical cooperation applications. Experts register profiles and respond to calls for expert opportunities; partner institutions access the system through focal points.
• Acting Upon Inequality E-course E-course sensitising and empowering experts mobilised by SOCIEUX+ to reduce social and economic inequality in their cooperation with partner institutions. Covers why acting upon inequality matters, defining and measuring inequality, drivers of inequality, and designing impactful policies. Estimated duration 2.5 hours; available in English, French and Spanish.
• How to design equitable Social Health protection E-course E-course aimed at empowering policymakers from Sub-Saharan Africa and others interested in promoting universal social health protection. Covers concepts related to equity and grounded proposals on institutional and policy reforms to build equitable social health protection systems. Estimated duration 5 hours; available in EN, FR and PT.
• SOCIEUX+ Knowledge Products (Reports and Metapapers) Reports, metapapers, and knowledge resources synthesising lessons from SOCIEUX+ technical cooperation activities. Available for download in multiple languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese). Topics include climate change and social protection, informal-sector access to labour market and social protection, and other thematic areas.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100 remote e-learning activities delivered, collaborating with 55 partners and 144 experts across 35 countries.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core/flagship, core and minor.

• Expertise Francecore/flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Expertise France is the leading implementing agency of SOCIEUX+. As the French public agency for international technical expertise, it manages the facility's operations, coordinates expert mobilisation, and leads the Facility Management Team (FMT). It is an Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial (EPIC) under the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
• FIIAPP (International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerFIIAPP is one of the four Implementation Partners of SOCIEUX+. It contributes to the implementation of technical cooperation activities and supports the facility's operational work. Based in Spain, it brings expertise in public administration and international cooperation.
• BELINCOSOC (Belgian International Cooperation on Social Protection)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerBELINCOSOC, part of Belgium's FPS Social Security, is one of the four Implementation Partners of SOCIEUX+. It contributes expertise on social protection systems and coordinates technical cooperation in social security from Belgium.
• Enabel (Belgian Development Agency)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEnabel is one of the four Implementation Partners of SOCIEUX+. As Belgium's development agency, it contributes to the implementation of technical cooperation activities, bringing experience in development cooperation and capacity building.
• GIZ (German Development Cooperation)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGIZ offices in Nigeria support SOCIEUX+ actions by helping partner institutions elaborate intervention strategies and mobilise EU experts. GIZ runs the Skills Development for Youth Employment Program (SKYE) in parallel with shared strategic goals. Local GIZ officials help partner institutions and facilitate SOCIEUX+ cooperation activities.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Enabel: Belgium's development agency is itself a SOCIEUX+ implementing partner and runs parallel capacity-building programmes in social protection, employment, and education in partner countries. The mandate, geography, and delivery model are closely aligned.
• FIIAPP (International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies): Spain's public foundation for public-sector cooperation is a SOCIEUX+ implementing partner and independently runs peer-to-peer public administration reform programmes across Latin America and Ibero-America. Highly comparable in approach and audience.
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ): Germany's federal development agency delivers technical cooperation worldwide, including in social protection, employment, and labour markets. GIZ is highly comparable to SOCIEUX+ in mission, delivery model (expert missions, training, study visits), and partner-country footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Expertise France: The French public agency for international technical expertise leads SOCIEUX+'s implementation and runs a far broader portfolio of technical-cooperation projects across many sectors. It is comparable as a peer implementing agency with overlapping expert-mobilisation capabilities.
• International Labour Organization (ILO): The UN agency sets global standards and provides technical cooperation on labour, employment, and social protection. ILO overlaps with SOCIEUX+ on the demand side (partner-country ministries) but operates at much larger scale and scope.
• World Bank Social Protection and Labor Global Practice: The World Bank's Social Protection and Labor practice provides policy advice, lending, and technical assistance to governments on pensions, health insurance, and labour markets — the same topics as SOCIEUX+ — but at substantially greater financial scale.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): UNDP supports national institutions on inclusive growth, social protection, and governance reform across 170+ countries. It is a peer in the broad sense of providing technical assistance to public-sector counterparts on the same themes.
• Agence Française de Développement (AFD): France's bilateral development finance institution funds and executes development projects, including social-protection reform programmes in Africa, the Mediterranean, and Asia. AFD operates a larger budget and broader mandate but overlaps meaningfully on social-protection technical assistance.

Emerging players

• European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM): A think-and-do tank focused on EU development policy and partnerships with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. ECDPM does research and policy dialogue rather than expert missions, but its thematic focus on social protection and labour overlaps with SOCIEUX+'s knowledge work.

Regional players

• Lux-Development: Luxembourg's development agency runs bilateral technical cooperation projects with a focus on social inclusion, vocational training, and capacity building in partner countries — comparable in mission but smaller in scope and concentrated in fewer geographies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/socieuxplus
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCCoSGVS5aizb3EVcYfy6HVA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/socieux

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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