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The Institute for Stress and Work – ISW – was founded in 1998 at the instigation of several professors from the universities of Louvain and Nijmegen specialising in work and organisation, health and well-being. Professors from the universities of Liege and Louvain-la-Neuve joined later. Since its establishment, those professors have stimulated ISW - and later ISW Limits - to carry out groundbreaking research on psycho-social well-being and to implement clinical and health psychology expertise into concrete tools and intervention methodologies related to work and organisation. |
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In the early years, the directors Prof. Koenraad Debackere and Raf Moons from the Catholic University of Louvain Gemma Frisius Fund supported ISW Limits with expertise in the transfer of research and technology at the university in combination with financial and investment expertise. |
 
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Limits vzw was founded in 1993 following the promulgation of the Royal Decree of 1992 concerning dealing with sexual harassment in private companies. Since that time, Limits vzw had been active in three major areas related to undesirable behaviour at work: reporting and interventions related to violence, bullying and sexual harassment at work, training confidential counsellors (in cooperation with Lucina, Catholic University of Louvain) and developing positive messages concerning respectful interaction in the workplace. Government departments asked Limits to establish a central reporting point for the education sector and for the Flemish government. |
  
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ISW Limits In 2005, at the instigation of Dirk Antonissen (CEO of ISW) and Maureen Luyens (Director of Limits), ISW and Limits signed a joint-venture agreement to create a unique offering in the area of psychosocial well-being.
The company was professionalised further and a new chairman and new directors were recruited. |
 
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ISW Limits has since grown to become a leading company in the area of innovative projects and research-supported tools and services. Many companies and organisations now call on ISW Limits to create Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs), quantitative and qualitative research, and for programmes, coaching and training that positively support well-being, construction collaboration, health, satisfaction and productivity. |
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With those kinds of projects, ISW Limits works frequently and constructively with the various stakeholders, such as the management team, HR, external and internal occupational health and safety departments, employee representatives, etc. The satisfaction of our clients was and still is our ultimate measurement of success. |