Impact WISEs

2022 - Impact WISEs Study results

In 2022, 12 national and regional WISEs networks from 10 European Union’s countries plus Serbia and Moldova took part in the study providing data for the year 2021. In total, the study represents 2 164 WISEs, 118,132 workers (92,364 disadvantaged workers and 25,768 non-disadvantaged workers).

WISEs main sectors of activity: the sectors in which WISEs were the most active in 2022 are transport, followed by waste collection and treatment, temporary staff, agriculture and environment and finally the building, public works and textile sectors. 

Contribution to SDGs: Through the evaluation of WISEs contribution to the United Nations Agenda 2030 for sustainable development goals (SDGs), ENSIE confirms that WISEs do contribute, through their daily activities, to all the SDGs. Most importantly to Goals number 8, 1, 10, 12, 5, 11, 4, 2 and 17.

WISEs economic efficiency: This year, 2,125 WISEs provided their financial data for the study. The total turnover of the study is 1,898,750,448.70 €. Consequently, the average turnover is at 893,529.62€. This shows the economic efficiency of this enterprise model.

WISEs social impact: In 2022, the results for the 80,113 disadvantaged workers, who have followed an integration pathway in 2, 072 work integration social enterprises from 10 countries that provided data on the social impact, are the following ones:

• 40% - Found a job on the labour market
• 21% - Became self-employed or started an education program
• 39% - Other (unemployment, sickness, retirement etc)

Around 61% of disadvantaged people have a positive outcome after following an integration path through a WISE. 

• WISEs clients: ENSIE study shows that the category which buys the most products and services from WISEs are private customers. However, public procurement is also quite frequent in some countries as Spain, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia and Serbia.

2021 - Impact WISEs Study results

In 2021, ENSIE only did a short study of Impact-WISEs, that shows, as every year the huge positive impact of WISEs on workers in integration ! This year study is combined with the study of WISEs one year after COVID-19! 

2020 - Impact WISEs Study results

You can find here the results of the 2020 Impact-WISEs study, based on the 2019 data. This year, 11 national and regional WISEs networks from 10 European countries took part in the study.

In total, the study covers 10 136 disadvantaged workers and shows that, after going through the integration pathway, 79% of the disadvantaged workers found a job in the same WISE, in another one or on the traditional labour market.

2019 - Impact WISEs Study results

You can find here the results of the 2018 Impact WISEs Study, this year, the data is covering 8 EU Member States, Moldova and Serbia, overall 712 WISEs, 50 730 workers and 38 022 disadvantaged workers. 

It showed that 47,19% of disadvantaged workers successfully found a job in the same WISE, another WISE or on the classic labour market, after going through the WISEs integration process whereas, 17,38% became self-employed or found a professional training. 

Impact-WISEs 2018

Since 2015, ENSIE with its members has launched the ‘Impact-WISEs’ study in order to measure but also demonstrate the social and economic impact WISEs produce to integrate disadvantaged people into the labour market. Read ENSIE’s recommendation for 2018.

Impact-WISEs 2017

ENSIE has published the new leaflet and booklet containing updates about the impact of WISEs in Europe.