85 - EDUCATION Companies in Belgium
Approximately 135,076 real businesses classified under 85 - Education in Belgium, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Approximately 135,076 real businesses classified under 85 - Education operate in Belgium. Covers companies officially classified under NACEBEL 2008 code 85 (Education), part of Belgium's NACEBEL 2008 classification of economic activities. This division is one of the sub-sectors making up the broader Education sector. Ownership, beneficial-ownership disclosure and company-registration rules for businesses under this specific activity code follow the same general framework that applies across Education in Belgium.
7 companies under this specific code are indexed on Zavia so far, part of a continually growing dataset.
Beneficial-ownership and registration rules for Education companies in Belgium follow the same national framework as every other sector there.
Full Belgium beneficial ownership overviewTop 85 - Education Companies in Belgium
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Data Coverage
Record counts for SIC Code P in Belgium, as of the last reconciliation.
Section P is 4% of the Belgium register by entity count and its 12th largest sector — see all sectors.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you
Education in Belgium runs entirely on regional rather than national authority for vocational training and employment services. The four regional/community bodies — VDAB in Flanders, Forem in Wallonia, Bruxelles Formation and Actiris in Brussels, and ADG in the German-speaking Community — each recognise and, in many cases, directly provide vocational training, and unemployment-benefit exemptions for training are granted automatically only when the training is organised or subsidised by one of these bodies. Since 1 July 2014, the regions have also managed recognition of training under the paid-educational-leave (betaald educatief verlof) scheme.
Providers themselves split between strictly public bodies (VDAB and its SYNTRA network in Flanders), non-profit organisations, and private training providers — each operating under different frameworks. For verification, a Belgian training provider’s actual recognition status depends on checking the specific regional body it’s registered with, since there’s no single national training-recognition authority, and confirming whether it’s public, non-profit or private changes what funding and regulatory rules actually govern it.
Belgium Education, by the register
Charts render from live counts. Modules are suppressed where coverage is too thin to be meaningful.
Entities by sub-sector
SIC division level, live from official registries.
Active vs. inactive
Section P entities currently on the register as active, vs. struck off or dormant.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file, Section P, Belgium. 123 entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Who uses Belgium education ownership data
The three checks this sector's data is most often run for.
Regional training-body recognition check
Belgium’s employment and training competence sits entirely at the regional level, split between VDAB (Flanders), Forem (Wallonia), Bruxelles Formation and Actiris (Brussels), and ADG (German-speaking Community) — a training provider’s actual recognition status depends on which region’s body it’s registered with, not a single national authority.
Betaald educatief verlof (paid educational leave) recognition
Since 1 July 2014, the regions have managed recognition of training under the paid-educational-leave scheme — a distinct, checkable recognition layer for training providers wanting their courses to qualify for that specific funding route.
Public vs. private provider distinction
SYNTRA (alongside VDAB) is a strictly public training-provider network in Flanders, existing alongside non-profit and private training providers — confirming whether a given Belgian training provider is public, non-profit or private changes what regulatory and funding framework actually applies to it.
Sub-sectors within Education
SIC divisions inside this section, each with its own Belgium company directory.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies are classified under 85 - Education in Belgium?
Approximately 135,076 businesses are classified under 85 - Education in Belgium.
What does NACEBEL 2008 code 85 cover?
85 - Education is the official name for this activity under Belgium's NACEBEL 2008 classification of economic activities. It is a sub-category within the broader Education sector.
How is this different from the broader Education category?
Education is the top-level sector; NACEBEL 2008 code 85 identifies one specific activity within it, letting you narrow a search to exactly this business type rather than the whole sector.
What ownership information is available for these companies?
The same beneficial-ownership, shareholder and officer disclosure framework applies as for any other company in Belgium, regardless of its specific activity classification. See the individual company profile for the full ownership picture, or the Education sector overview for the general national framework.
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