How Lantis builds its own training for one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects

Lantis is building the Oosterweel Link in Antwerp, one of the most important infrastructure projects in Europe. More than half of the people working on the project are external. Keeping every one of them trained and certified is part of daily operations.

Aerial view of the Oosterweel junction construction site in Antwerp, with new road sections curving toward the river.

At a glance

Industry: Infrastructure and construction
Project: The Oosterweel Link, Antwerp
Workforce: A small core team and a large external workforce, more than half of project staff
Live learning: 428 sessions organized, with 97% attendance
Uses Valamis for: Onboarding, compliance training, events, and knowledge sharing
Content: Almost all online learning built in-house with Valamis Studio

The challenge isn’t only keeping mandatory training and certifications up to date. We also need knowledge to be shared between teams, internal staff, and external experts.
Joke Meuris, Talent Manager, Lantis

A scattered starting point

Before Valamis, training at Lantis was organized on request. There was no central offering and no clear learning route.

The turning point came with NEC4, the mandatory contract training used on large infrastructure projects. Lantis needed a structured learning environment, built from the start around knowledge sharing, accessibility, and reporting.

Learning built around connection

The Lantis mission is about connecting systems, people, and organizations. That idea runs through how the company approaches learning.

We literally build infrastructure that connects people, but we also build bridges between expertise, teams, and organizations. For us, learning isn’t only about taking a course. It happens in projects, in working with colleagues, in conversations, in sharing knowledge. We believe people learn most when they tackle complex challenges together.
Joke Meuris, Talent Manager, Lantis

In-person sessions and online courses in one place

For topics like safety, collaboration, and sharing experience, in-person sessions remain essential. Lantis runs these as events in Valamis, next to the online courses its teams build in Valamis Studio. By early 2026, that added up to 428 sessions, with 97% attendance.

Live, social learning is at the heart of how we develop our people at Lantis. With 428 sessions organized and 97% attendance, Valamis gave us the tools to make that happen at scale.
Joke Meuris, Talent Manager, Lantis

A large audience of Lantis employees, several raising their hands, during a plenary session at the company’s Kennislab learning day.

Having both in the same platform means the learning team plans around the goal of each topic. Some topics work best in a room together. Others need to be available the moment someone needs them. The starting point is always the learning goal, never the format.

Why the engineers write the training

Lantis builds most of its online learning in-house with Valamis Studio instead of buying ready-made courses. The reason is practical. Much of what Lantis does has never been done before, so the right course rarely exists in a standard library.

Just like in our projects, if there’s no blueprint, we make one ourselves.
Joke Meuris, Talent Manager, Lantis

The people who manage tunnels on one of Europe’s most complex engineering projects are often the same people whose expertise ends up in a course. Requests usually come from the business itself. The subject expert writes the first draft of the script, and the learning team supports with instructional design and tooling.

A Lantis employee presenting to colleagues in front of an aerial design of the project on screen at the Kennislab learning day.

Making existing knowledge visible

Much of the learning at Lantis is about surfacing expertise that already exists inside the organization. Colleagues share project experience, good practice, and lessons learned, and the demand comes straight from the teams doing the work.

Lantis colleagues gathered around a table with a building-block model during a hands-on workshop at Kennislab.

Lessons are assigned to carefully defined learning paths and audiences. That way, each piece of knowledge reaches the people who need it when they need it.

Onboarding and compliance from day one

Lantis runs on a small core team and a large, changing external workforce. Each target group has its own onboarding learning path, assigned automatically from the first day. Every colleague gets the information they need quickly, whatever their contract type.

Compliance follows the same approach. Mandatory courses are assigned through learning paths, and reporting shows who has completed which course. HR teams can see who is falling behind and step in with support early.

Lantis colleagues standing around a table, working together on a hands-on exercise during the Kennislab learning day.

Learners can also rate each e-learning module. That gives course owners direct feedback they can use to improve the content.

Should you build your own training or buy it off the shelf?

Joke’s advice to other L&D teams is direct. A generic library can be a good foundation, but organizations with a specialized field or a specific safety context often need training that reflects their own reality.

For us, the greatest value is in content employees recognize and that starts from our own practice. What we do at Lantis is often unique, so it isn’t always found in standard courses. When learning becomes an extension of real work, relevance and engagement go up.
Joke Meuris, Talent Manager, Lantis

Asked what might surprise the L&D world about Lantis, Joke doesn’t point to the platform.

We sometimes say that at Lantis we don’t only build bridges and tunnels, we build training too.
Joke Meuris, Talent Manager, Lantis

Many of the company’s experts create learning content for their colleagues. At Lantis that feels normal. At many other organizations, it’s far from standard.

At Lantis, learning really is part of the culture. Joke and her team use events in a way we don’t often see, from big learning days to small sessions led by their own experts. We meet every month, and the conversation always goes both ways. They share what works for them, and it helps us show other customers what’s possible.
Veerle Numan, Senior Learning Solution Partner, Valamis

About Lantis

Lantis (Leefbaar Antwerpen door Innovatie en Samenwerking) is the Flemish government company driving major mobility and livability projects in the Antwerp region, most notably the Oosterweel Link. Working closely with citizens, authorities, and construction partners, Lantis builds sustainable infrastructure to improve traffic flow, safety, and quality of life in Flanders. For more information, visit Lantis.

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