POM Vlaams-Brabant

About POM Vlaams-Brabant

POM Vlaams-Brabant is the Provincial Development Company of Vlaams-Brabant, established by the Province of Vlaams-Brabant as a public-law institution with legal personality and recognized by the Flemish Government. It acts as an executor of the province’s socio-economic policy, with a strong focus on spatial development, business infrastructure, and strategic economic projects.

The organization works with local authorities, companies, knowledge institutions, and social partners to create room for entrepreneurship and to support innovation in the province’s key sectors, especially food and logistics. Its team combines local terrain knowledge and technical expertise to deliver projects ranging from new business sites and redevelopment of obsolete industrial areas to park management and innovation-oriented campus development.

Core Values

• Public value and regional development: POM presents itself as a public actor with a clear mandate to support the province’s socio-economic policy and to deliver projects with broader societal value.
• Sustainability: Many of its projects emphasize durable land use, biodiversity, water reuse, and future-proof infrastructure for business areas.
• Innovation and knowledge sharing: The organization promotes collaboration between companies, knowledge institutions, and public partners to stimulate innovation in strategic sectors.
• Entrepreneurship support: POM aims to strengthen the business climate by creating suitable space, infrastructure, and support for entrepreneurs at different stages of growth.

Unique Aspects

• Provincial public-law mandate: POM Vlaams-Brabant is a legally recognized public institution created by the Province of Vlaams-Brabant and embedded in provincial economic policy.
• Strong role in strategic sector projects: It is actively involved in projects in food and logistics, including the Feed Food Health Campus in Tienen and logistics-related initiatives.
• Experience with complex reconversion: POM is involved in the redevelopment of challenging brownfield and industrial sites, such as the Fobrux site in Vilvoorde and other former industrial areas.
• Partnership-based delivery model: Its projects are typically carried out with municipalities, universities, companies, and regional partners; for example, Feed Food Health is developed with the City of Tienen and KU Leuven.
• Regional park-management network: POM participates in park-management structures such as C-Valley in Leuven and the Kennisnetwerk Bedrijventerreinmanagement, linking site management with broader business-community coordination.