The CAP48 Enterprise Award 2026 recognized six organizations working to make society more inclusive for persons with disabilities.
Among them, Axiles Bionics received the award in the Innovation category for its work on prosthetic feet designed to support more natural movement for lower limb amputees.
Organized by CAP48, the award highlights companies and organizations taking concrete action for disability inclusion.
Being part of this group gives the recognition its full meaning. Inclusion is not built by one company or one product. It takes shape through many decisions, in many places, by people working toward the same direction.
The 2026 edition of the CAP48 Enterprise Award recognized Forest National, Inditex, Life Cover, neuroClues, the City of Brussels, and Axiles Bionics.
Each organization was selected for a specific contribution to disability inclusion. Together, they show how inclusion can take shape in workplaces, cultural venues, public services, healthcare, and technology.
The 2026 laureates were also highlighted by La Libre, reflecting the wider attention given to disability inclusion in the workplace and beyond.
This collective dimension matters. It places innovation in a context where accessibility, autonomy, and participation are connected parts of daily life.
The CAP48 Enterprise Award places innovation in a broader conversation: how can technology, services, and organizations help make society more inclusive?
For lower limb amputees, inclusion is also shaped by everyday mobility. A prosthetic foot can influence comfort, confidence, autonomy, and the ability to take part in daily activities with fewer limitations.
Axiles Bionics was recognized in the Innovation category for its work on prosthetic feet inspired by the natural movement of the human ankle. Through the Lunaris Product Line, this work focuses on supporting movement that feels smoother, more intuitive, and better adapted to the way people move.
The technology itself matters. But its value lies in what it can make possible: moving with more ease, feeling more stable on different surfaces, and gaining more confidence in daily routines.
In that sense, prosthetic foot technology becomes part of a larger inclusion effort. Not as a promise of independence on its own, but as one element among many that can help people access more comfort, autonomy, and participation in everyday life.
The CAP48 Enterprise Award 2026 was part of a larger evening dedicated to collective action in Wallonia, Belgium’s French-speaking region.
On the same evening, more than 700 economic, academic, associative, and institutional actors gathered for the launch of WALLONS-Y!, a movement initiated by Pulse Foundation, AKT for Wallonia, L’Écho, and Wallonie Entreprendre to strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit in Wallonia.
This gathering showed how inclusion, entrepreneurship, research, and public engagement can move in the same direction when different actors work around shared challenges.
In this context, prosthetic foot technology becomes one part of a larger ecosystem where entrepreneurship can help turn scientific research, clinical insight, and real human needs into practical solutions.
The CAP48 Enterprise Award also brings attention to a wider question: what makes inclusion possible in everyday life?
Environments, services, technologies, and access all play a role. Better prosthetic solutions can contribute to greater autonomy for lower limb amputees by helping users move with more confidence, participate more fully in daily routines, and feel more in control of their mobility.
That is why innovation has to stay close to real needs. Each product improvement, each clinical discussion, and each piece of user feedback contributes to the same goal: making prosthetic technology more comfortable, more natural, and more adapted to the people who use it.
Every prosthetic foot carries decisions: materials, mechanics, testing, feedback, and adjustments. Behind each improvement is the same purpose: to support users with technology that feels useful, reliable, and natural in use.
Axiles Bionics thanks CAP48 for this recognition, as well as the users, clinicians, partners, and team members who continue to shape this work.
This award is a meaningful marker, but the work continues: listening, testing, improving, and building around real life.
Technology, when done right, should not ask for attention.
It should help people move.
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