Expertise network Vizier has been launched!
We are proud to announce the launch of Expertise Network Vizier: a new partnership dedicated to connection, knowledge sharing and professionalisation in supporting children and young people with visual impairment.
In spring 2026, we will officially launch Vizier and we will do so with great enthusiasm. What starts today as a powerful initiative grows into a sustainable network in which expertise is not lost, but shared and strengthened.
On this website you will soon find:
- a clear social map
- news from the field via the newsflash
- a targeted training offer
Vizier aims to become the central place where expertise around children and young people with visual impairment comes together.
Do you work within your organisation with children or young people with visual impairments? Are you looking for knowledge, support or exchange with other professionals? Then you have come to the right place at Vizier.
How did Vizier come into being?
Children and young people with visual impairment are a low prevalence target group. Building expertise around this specific support requires time, experience and cooperation. Yet today, valuable knowledge is too often lost, for instance due to staff changes or because organisations work side by side instead of together.
Many professionals within the Type 6 landscape recognise the feeling: having to reinvent the hot water every time.
At the same time, the education and welfare landscape is not standing still. With evolutions such as "schools for all" within education and "contact points disability" within welfare, the challenges are increasing. This is precisely why joining forces is essential.
From this need for connection, Centrum Ganspoel and Spermalie - De Kade sat around the table together. The idea for an expertise network took shape and Vizier was born.
To concretely build this network, two coordinators were appointed: Anneleen Meire (Spermalie - De Kade) and Indy Van der Poorten (Centrum Ganspoel). Over the past months, they worked intensively on the foundations of what Vizier is today: a network under construction, supported by expertise and cooperation.
What does Vizier do?
Vizier is building a network in Flanders, and more widely, in which organisations working with visually impaired children and young people strengthen each other.
Within Vizier, partners work together around:
Bringing together and sustainably securing expertise
- Intervision moments where professionals learn from each other
- Thematic working groups (such as Braille, CVI...) in which specialised knowledge is deepened and developed
Sharing and developing materials
- Exchanging existing materials
- Developing new tools and methodologies together
Making visible and participating in research and practice knowledge
- Highlighting bachelor and master theses
- Making relevant studies and research results accessible
- Initiating scientific research
Combining formation and meeting
- Organising and sharing training, study days and moments of inspiration
Thus, step by step, we are building a learning network in which cooperation becomes natural in the interest of every child and young person with visual impairment.