Ozcs Vorselaar

What Ozcs Vorselaar does

OZCS Vorselaar (Onderwijsgroep Zusters der Christelijke Scholen Vorselaar) is a Belgian non-profit Catholic educational organization (vzw) founded in 1820 by Pater Lodewijk Vincent Donche and Countess Regina della Faille de Leverghem. Headquartered in Vorselaar with regional offices across six Belgian regions (Keerbergen, Midden-Kempen, Noord-Kempen, West-Brabant, Zuid-Antwerpen, and Zuid-Kempen), it coordinates a network of approximately 83 primary schools and 15 secondary schools serving around 34,000 students in the provinces of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant, and the Brussels-Capital Region. The central Koepel (umbrella organization) delivers advisory, coaching, pedagogical guidance, professional development, quality improvement, and logistical/financial support services to regional school boards and their schools, funded through school contributions and Flemish government education subsidies.

Name

Ozcs Vorselaar

Legal name

vzw OZCS Koepel

Website

https://ozcsvorselaar.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

1820

Operating status

Operating

Short description

OZCS Vorselaar is a Belgian Catholic non-profit educational umbrella coordinating nearly 100 primary and secondary schools across six regions, serving approximately 34,000 students with central pedagogical and administrative support services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Primary and Secondary Education

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Open Lesson Plans & Teaching Units (K–12) (EDAGAJAI)

Keywords

• Catholic education
• Primary education
• Secondary education
• Pedagogical support
• School network

Headquarters

HQ city

Vorselaar

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Educational Services and School Contributions: The organization provides educational services through its network of schools. Contributions from schools fund the organization of services. The Koepel (umbrella organization) delivers services to regional school boards and their schools, including advising, informing, coaching, connecting, researching/innovating, quality improvement, professional development, pedagogical guidance, and logistical and financial support.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Ozcs Vorselaar (legal name: vzw OZCS Koepel) is a Catholic educational umbrella organization founded in 1820 that coordinates approximately 100 primary and secondary schools across Belgium (Antwerp, Flemish Brabant, and Brussels-Capital regions), serving roughly 34,000 students with a staff of over 900. It provides pedagogical, administrative, and organizational support services to its member schools and runs an Erasmus+ consortium for internationalization.

Product overview

OZCS Vorselaar (Onderwijsgroep Zusters der Christelijke Scholen Vorselaar) is a Catholic educational organization operating as a unified educational group rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The organization operates approximately 83 primary schools and 15 secondary schools across 6 regions (Keerbergen, Midden-Kempen, Noord-Kempen, West-Brabant, Zuid-Antwerpen, and Zuid-Kempen) serving about 34,000 students. The core products include primary education (Basisonderwijs) and secondary education (Secundair Onderwijs), supplemented by an Erasmus+ internationalization program (Internationalisering) and pedagogical support services (Pedagogische Begeleiding) provided through the central OZCS Koepel. Founded in 1820, the organization traces its origins to a workshop school established by Lodewijk Vincent Donche and Countess Regina della Faille de Leverghem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Primary Education Network (Basisonderwijs)
• Secondary Education Network (Secundair Onderwijs)
• Pedagogical and Administrative Support Services
• Erasmus+ Internationalization Consortium

Quantifiable outcome

• Two schools selected as official inspiration schools from 76 candidates across all of Flanders
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• European Union Erasmus+ ProgrammecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020OZCS established its own Erasmus+ consortium for KA1 projects, enabling access to European funding for training, school visits, and internships abroad for teachers and students across its schools (primary and secondary). This partnership serves as a lever for quality development within OZCS.

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Cognita Schools: International K-12 school group operating more than 100 schools across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Comparable as a centrally coordinated network school operator with shared pedagogical support, brand identity, and back-office services — analogous structurally to OZCS's Koepel model.
• Inspired Education Group: A global premium schools group operating 120+ schools across multiple continents. Comparable as a large multi-brand K-12 school operator with centralized support services and pedagogical standards — relevant to benchmark OZCS against a private, internationally scaled operator.
• Nord Anglia Education: International premium schools group operating ~80 K-12 schools worldwide. Comparable as a centrally coordinated K-12 network with a strong pedagogical identity and internationalization agenda — a model for what scaled Catholic K-12 governance can look like at international scope.
• GEMS Education: One of the world's largest K-12 private school operators with a global footprint of 80+ schools. Comparable to OZCS as a large-scale K-12 operator running centralized support services across a network, with a comparable focus on values-based education positioning.

Others

• Stichting Leerplanontwikkeling (SLO): Dutch national curriculum development organization supporting primary, secondary, and vocational education in the Netherlands. Comparable as a peer in pedagogical content and curriculum coordination for K-12 networks, even though it sits adjacent rather than directly competitive to OZCS's school operations.
• Pedagogische Begeleidingsdiensten (PBD) network: The Flemish pedagogical support services providing advising, coaching, and quality improvement to Catholic schools. Comparable to OZCS Koepel's 'Pedagogische Begeleiding' service line — adjacent rather than directly competitive, but functionally similar in supporting school boards with pedagogical expertise.
• Jesuit Worldwide Learning: International higher-education and secondary-education initiative of the Jesuits, serving marginalized communities globally. Comparable thematically as a Catholic values-rooted educational network, and historically connected to OZCS through its founder Pater Donche being a Jesuit.

Direct peers

• Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen: The umbrella organization coordinating Catholic schools across all of Flanders (membership >1,000 schools). OZCS is itself a member of this body. It is the apex governance and lobbying counterpart for Flemish Catholic education and the most directly comparable structural peer.
• GO! Onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap: The official public school network of the Flemish Community, operating dozens of scholengroepen across Flanders and Brussels. It is the closest direct peer to OZCS — a school network of comparable scale delivering primary and secondary education in the same regions and competing for the same families under the same Flemish subsidy regime.
• Scholengroep Brussel (GO! Brussels): A regional GO! scholengroep operating Flemish public schools in the Brussels-Capital Region — the same geography where OZCS maintains its regional HQ. Directly comparable as a regionally concentrated Flemish school network competing for the same urban families.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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