Working together to set research priorities around returning to work after a long-term work incapacity

For the King Baudouin Foundation, the purpose of the project was to develop a single method for ‘priority setting’ that could be used in other areas of research. Three pilot projects were being launched in order to do this. One of these is explained in this report. The King Baudouin Foundation will develop and distribute a publication based on the experiences gained through all three projects.

For the Centre of Expertise on Work incapacity of the Benefits Division of the NIHDI the purpose was to identify priority subjects for research through a dialogue with the various stakeholders. The aim is to look for the subjects that are considered most relevant for research, from the perspectives of the various groups of stakeholders. Representatives of the Centre of Expertise then carried out an analysis to ascertain which of the subjects really were new, which ones had already been researched but were not sufficiently known among the target group, and which ones were within the remit of other institutions.

This publication is also available in Dutch and French.