SWV VO Twente West

What SWV VO Twente West does

SWV VO Twente West is a Dutch non-profit regional cooperation partnership (samenwerkingsverband) established in 2014, headquartered in Almelo, Netherlands. Its stated function is to provide educational support, expertise, and collaboration services to secondary schools (voortgezet onderwijs) in the Twente West region, with the operational objective of enabling those schools to deliver inclusive education to students with diverse learning needs.

The organization operates within the Dutch "passend onderwijs" policy framework, a national mandate that assigns each region a designated cooperative responsible for coordinating special educational needs support and additional funding across participating secondary schools. Its customer base is therefore structurally limited to secondary schools within the Twente West catchment area, served on an institutional rather than transactional basis. Funding mechanics are not disclosed in the available data, but as a government-aligned regional cooperative, revenue is most plausibly derived from public-sector allocations tied to school participation and student support intensity rather than from commercial fees.

The company employs between 11 and 50 staff, consistent with a lean coordinating body rather than a direct service-delivery organization. No product, technology stack, or platform information was available: the firm's own website (swvvotwentewest.nl) returned only a loading/verification page at the time of data collection, and no management team, partnerships, certifications, or financial disclosures are present in the source material. Investment-relevant signals beyond firmographics are therefore limited.

Name

SWV VO Twente West

Website

https://swvvotwentewest.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SWV VO Twente West is a Dutch non-profit regional cooperation partnership, founded in 2014 and based in Almelo, that provides expertise and support services to secondary schools in the Twente West region to enable inclusive education.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Special Education Support Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

Regional Education Service Agencies (ESAs/BOCES/Intermediate Units) (EDADABAC)

Keywords

• Inclusive education
• Special needs support
• Secondary education collaboration
• School partnership services
• Educational support network

Headquarters

HQ city

Almelo

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Core offering

SWV VO Twente West is a Dutch regional collaboration partnership (samenwerkingsverband) that provides educational support, expertise, and coordination services to secondary schools (VO) in the Twente West region. The organization helps schools deliver inclusive education, particularly for students requiring additional support, by pooling resources, expertise, and guidance across member schools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Inclusive Secondary Education Support Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Samenwerkingsverband VO Deventer: Another Dutch regional samenwerkingsverband for voortgezet onderwijs, operating under the same legal framework as SWV VO Twente West but serving the Deventer region. Comparable in mandate, funding model, and member-school coordination role.
• Samenwerkingsverband VO Zuidoost-Utrecht: SWV covering the Zuidoost-Utrecht secondary education region. Directly comparable in function (coordination of passend onderwijs for secondary schools) and in non-profit cooperative structure.
• Samenwerkingsverband VO Amsterdam-Diemen: Regional SWV for secondary education in the Amsterdam-Diemen area. Operates the same statutory inclusive-education coordination function as Twente West but at materially larger scale due to the urban catchment.
• Samenwerkingsverband VO 2001: Regional SWV for secondary education in the Haaglanden area. Same statutory mandate and operational model as SWV VO Twente West, making it a close structural peer despite a different geography.

Broad incumbents

• BOCES (Boards of Cooperative Educational Services): US regional educational service agencies that coordinate shared services, special education, and professional development across member school districts. Functionally analogous to Dutch SWVs but operating in a different policy and funding environment.
• Lucas Onderwijs: Large Dutch education group operating multiple secondary schools in the Twente region and elsewhere. Comparable because it shares the same member-school universe as SWV VO Twente West and is directly affected by SWV coordination decisions, though it is a school operator rather than a coordination entity.

Emerging players

• Stichting Samenwerkingsverband Primair Onderwijs 30 06: A primary-education (PO) samenwerkingsverband rather than secondary (VO). Comparable in cooperative governance and inclusive-education mandate but serves a different school tier, making it a partial overlap rather than direct competition.

Regional players

• Regionaal Bureau Leerplicht West Twente: Regional educational attendance/truancy enforcement body operating in the same Twente West geography. Shares overlap in safeguarding and student wellbeing responsibilities that intersect with SWV activities.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/samenwerkingsverband-swv-vo-twente-west-almelo

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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