cultures et sante

What cultures et sante does

Cultures & Santé is a Belgian non-profit association (asbl) founded in 1977 and headquartered at 148 rue d'Anderlecht in Brussels. It operates as a health promotion, permanent education, and social cohesion organization serving French-speaking Belgium, with a geographic footprint spanning the Brussels-Capital Region and Wallonia. The organization employs approximately 22 staff members — 19 operational personnel and 3 board members — and operates a documentary resource center exceeding 100 square meters that was opened in 2010 to anchor its reference and pedagogical activities.

The organization's core outputs include pedagogical tools, awareness zines (notably the recurring Le 148), practical guides, and educational kits designed to support health literacy and community engagement among its target audiences. Its activities are structured around three mission pillars — health promotion, permanent education, and social cohesion — with programming directed at community workers, educators, and social-sector professionals rather than commercial customers. In 2002, the organization merged with Promosanté to consolidate capacity, and in 2018 it received formal recognition as a health promotion support service in French-speaking Belgium.

Cultures & Santé operates as a subsidized non-profit with no commercial revenue stream. Its funding derives from public-sector sources, principally Cocof (the French-speaking Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region's social-action body), AViQ (the Walloon agency for a quality life), and Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. The organization does not raise venture or equity funding, does not sell products at commercial margins, and does not disclose audited financials in the input provided.

Name

cultures et sante

Legal name

Cultures&Santé asbl

Website

https://cultures-sante.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Belgian non-profit (asbl) founded in 1977 delivering health promotion, permanent education, and social cohesion services across French-speaking Belgium through pedagogical tools, the Le 148 zine, and a documentary resource center, funded by Cocof, AViQ, and Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health Promotion and Education Services

NAICS

Vocational Rehabilitation Services (62431), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations (HLAJAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Refugee & Humanitarian Newcomer Orientation (Resettlement Support) (EDAAADAI), Interpretation, Translation & Language Access Training (Community Interpreting) (EDAAADAJ), Language & Cross-Cultural Training (BPACANAL)

Keywords

• Health promotion services
• Permanent education programs
• Health literacy resources
• Social cohesion programs
• Pedagogical tool development

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, Others

Revenue model

1. Public subsidies and grants: Cultures&Santé operates primarily through public funding from Belgian institutional bodies including Cocof (Commission communautaire française), AViQ (Agence pour une Vie de Qualité, Wallonia), and Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. These subsidies fund health promotion, permanent education, and social cohesion programs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Cultures & Santé is a Belgian non-profit association (asbl) that delivers health promotion, permanent education, and social cohesion services in French-speaking Belgium. It operates through animation sessions, training cycles, accompaniment services, discovery workshops, and co-construction activities targeting frontline professionals, associative organizations, and populations who have experienced exile. The organization also produces and distributes a portfolio of pedagogical tools (kits, guides, zines, dossiers) and maintains a physical and virtual documentary and pedagogical resource center specialized in health, social inequalities, and alterity.

Product overview

Cultures & Santé is a Belgian non-profit organization (asbl) specializing in health promotion, permanent education, and social cohesion in French-speaking Belgium. The organization does not offer a unified software platform but rather provides a portfolio of pedagogical services and educational resources including animations, training sessions, support/accompaniment, discovery workshops, and co-construction activities. These services are complemented by a collection of tools and resources such as pedagogical guides, kits, zines, and thematic publications designed to strengthen health literacy, critical thinking, and social empowerment among populations, particularly those who have experienced exile.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Le 148: Publication Zine de Cultures&Santé - Publication on social and health topics
• PAUVéRITé

Products and services

• Animations (Animation sessions) Group animation sessions for health promotion, designed for frontline professionals and vulnerable audiences, particularly populations who have experienced exile.
• Formations (Training programs) Structured training programs for professionals and volunteers working in social and health sectors, covering topics such as health literacy, transcultural approaches, and community health methodologies.
• Accompagnement (Support and accompaniment) Tailored accompaniment and methodological support services for associative organizations and professionals, providing guidance on health promotion, permanent education, and social cohesion projects.
• Ateliers découverte (Discovery workshops) Discovery workshops designed to introduce and explore the organization's pedagogical tools and methodological resources with partner organizations and professionals.
• Co-construction (Co-construction activities) Collaborative methodology service where pedagogical tools and resources are designed jointly with target audiences and partner organizations, ensuring tools are created with rather than for beneficiaries.
• Centre de documentation (Documentation and pedagogical resource center) A physical and virtual documentary and pedagogical resource center providing specialized access to documentation on health, inequalities, and alterity. Open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:30 to 16:30 at 148 rue d'Anderlecht, Brussels.
• L'info, ça se partage! (Information is shared!) A pedagogical animation tool designed to explore collective ways of sharing and consuming health information among groups.
• Santé à tous les étages! (Health on all floors!) - Mobilization guide A mobilization guide focused on the right to housing favorable to health, designed for community advocacy and collective action.
• Cap Littératie en Santé Organisationnelle (Organizational Health Literacy Kit) A comprehensive pedagogical kit designed to help organizations improve health literacy accessibility and practices within their structures.
• Le 148 (Zine publication series) A thematic zine publication series by Cultures & Santé addressing social and health issues from a critical perspective (n°8 covers mental health and neoliberalism).
• Fiches Lisa (Lisa sheets) A collection of educational sheets providing information on health literacy topics for practitioners and associative actors.
• Tuto J'y suis, j'y reste! (Tutorial: I'm here, I'm staying!) A video tutorial accompanying the J'y suis, j'y reste! tool designed for French language learning with populations who have experienced exile.

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Cocof (Commission communautaire française)coreOthersPrimary funder of health promotion and social cohesion programs in the Brussels-Capital Region. Cocof subsidies support the health promotion program and social cohesion programs (communal and regional) operated by Cultures&Santé.
• AViQ (Agence pour une Vie de Qualité)coreOthersWalloon government agency providing support for health promotion programs. Co-funders the health promotion program alongside Cocof.
• Fédération Wallonie-BruxellescoreOthersFrench-speaking Belgian federation providing recognition and funding for the permanent education (éducation permanente) program. Recognizes Cultures&Santé as a producer of services, documentation, and pedagogical/cultural tools under axis 3.1 of the Permanent Education decree.
• CLPS de VerviersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal health promotion service (Centre local de promotion de la santé) collaborating with Cultures&Santé on events, including the discovery workshop for Cap Littératie en santé organisationnelle tool.
• AIGS (Association pour l'Intégration et la Gérontologie Sociale)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization collaborating with Cultures&Santé on the 'L'info, ça se partage' tool discovery workshop in Herstal.
• FBPS (Fédération Bruxelloise de Promotion de la Santé)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrussels Federation of Health Promotion. Cultures&Santé is an active member; FBPS co-organizes the Salon des ressources en promotion de la santé. Cultures&Santé appears as a partner on the organization's website.
• RBDS (Réseau Bruxellois pour le Développement Solidaire)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizer with FBPS of the Salon des ressources en promotion de la santé (2nd edition, October 2026) at Au Circularium in Anderlecht.
• Forum Bruxelles contre les InégalitésminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrussels-based forum publishing the PAUVéRITé series. Cultures&Santé contributed issue n°49 on organizational health literacy, published in December 2025.
• Promosanté (absorbed association)minorOthersMerged with Cultures&Santé in 2002, contributing a community health axis in the Senne quarter of Brussels. Historical partnership.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Fédération Bruxelloise de Promotion de la Santé (FBPS): Brussels federation of health promotion actors and a core strategic partner of Cultures&Santé. Operates in the same Brussels health promotion ecosystem with overlapping member organizations, funding sources, and tool-distribution missions.
• Centres Locaux de Promotion de la Santé (CLPS Network): Belgian network of local health promotion centers (e.g., CLPS de Verviers, which directly partners with Cultures&Santé). Delivers complementary local-level health promotion, animation, and training across Wallonia and Brussels.
• Educa-Santé: Belgian non-profit specializing in health education and health information dissemination to the general public. Comparable to Cultures&Santé in mission, French-speaking Belgian scope, and pedagogical resource production for health literacy.
• Modus Vivendi: Brussels-based non-profit active in health promotion and reduction of social health inequalities. Shares with Cultures&Santé a focus on vulnerable populations, community-led approaches, and animation/pedagogical tool development.
• Question Santé: Belgian non-profit producing health promotion documentation, analyses, and pedagogical tools. Direct comparator on the documentary/pedagogical resource center model and French-speaking health promotion sector positioning.
• Fédération Wallonne de Promotion de la Santé: Walloon federation of health promotion actors; created concurrently with FBPS in the 2016-2018 reform of the Belgian health promotion sector. Direct counterpart serving the Walloon region in the same institutional ecosystem as Cultures&Santé.

Emerging players

• Lire et Écrire: Belgian federation for adult literacy, including French-language learning for newcomers. Adjacent to Cultures&Santé's work on health literacy and exile populations (e.g., the J'y suis, j'y reste! French-learning tool), with overlap in target audiences and adult-education sector positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Médecins du Monde Belgium: Larger international medical NGO active in Belgium providing healthcare access to migrants and excluded populations. Overlaps with Cultures&Santé on the migrant-health mission but operates a much wider portfolio including direct medical care.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/culturesetsante
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cultures-sant%C3%A9

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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