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Become an AWEX approved Design Specialist and carry out strategic missions at international level on behalf of exporting companies.

In the context of its "Design Specialist" incentive programme, AWEX wishes to encourage efforts to develop export markets by enabling small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to obtain the advice of experts and to integrate the design dimension into their export strategy.

To this end, AWEX will partially cover the costs of expert design missions under the terms shown in the notice introducing the scheme.

The expert responsible for this mission must :

  • design, develop, or refine a design strategy directed towards the export market;
  • identify what the company needs to do in order to improve its competitiveness in foreign markets;
  • target the priority markets to be tackled;
  • design and develop procedures for approaching these new markets.

The expert mission itself, the normal length of which is a maximum of 30 working days distributed over a 12 month period, can be extended twice by a maximum period of 30 days.

In order to apply, the candidate expert must have self-employed status or be active in a design consultancy and demonstrate a minimum of three years professional experience in the field of design in companies (experience acquired with regard to: graphic design, packaging, product or industrial design, web product design).

Would you like to apply ?

Download the Instructions regarding accreditation as an approved Expert to find out the conditions and procedures for registration in our database of experts. Register via the "Design Specialist" application form.

For further information :

logo AWEXAWEX, Service des Incitants financiers (Financial Incentives Department)
Dominique BADOT : +32 2 421.85.97, d.badot@awex.be
Patricia LEROY : +32 2 421.87.93, p.leroy@awex.be

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