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Elsene (Ixelles)

Brussels-Capital Region · 89.162 inhabitants

Who makes decisions about Elsene?

Three levels of government each decide on their own topics.

Your municipality

The municipal council and the mayor and aldermen decide on matters such as streets, waste collection, sports halls, libraries and the public social welfare centre.

We do not show municipal council decisions yet: there is no open data for all municipalities yet.

Federal Chamber

The Chamber decides on matters such as pensions, taxes, justice, the police, defence and health insurance.

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In Brussels, the Flemish Parliament and the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation decide on education and culture.

What did the municipal council decide?

For municipalities in Wallonia and Brussels there is no shared open source yet for municipal council decisions. You can find them on your municipality’s website.

Subsidies for organisations from Elsene

In 2025, 374 organisations from Elsene received a total of € 503.5 million in subsidies.

The municipal administration itself often also receives subsidies from higher levels of government. Self-employed people and other individuals are not counted here.

Who received the most?

  1. Université Libre de Bruxelles € 330,114,906
  2. Vrije Universiteit Brussel afgekort VUB € 23,809,055
  3. DAHOME € 20,774,540
  4. BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC € 10,716,111
  5. Ixelles / Elsene € 10,557,595
See all subsidies in Elsene →

Work contracted out by public bodies in Elsene

These are the larger public contracts of public bodies with their address in this municipality: the municipality itself, but also, for example, a hospital, a school or a ministry.

In 2026, they awarded 84 contracts, worth € 426 million in total.

Which public bodies awarded the most contracts?

  1. Université Libre de Bruxelles 26 contracts
  2. Federale Politie 17 contracts
  3. Vrije Universiteit Brussel 15 contracts
  4. Elsene 14 contracts
  5. Sciensano 6 contracts

The latest contracts

Buying supplies 20 October 2026

Medical equipments

Système de magnétoencéphalographie portable basé sur les magnétomètres à pompage optique et sa chambre blindée

€ 2,626,500
Who carries it out?
Cerca Magnetics Limited
View the official notice
See all contracts in Elsene →

Companies from Elsene that won government work

In 2026, companies and organisations from Elsene won 37 public contracts across Belgium.

  1. EUBELIUS 7 contracts
  2. D'IETEREN AUTOMOTIVE SA/NV 6 contracts
  3. SOPRA STERIA BELGIUM 6 contracts
  4. ANTICIMEX 5 contracts
  5. ANSUL 4 contracts

What is not here yet?

  • The finances and decisions of your municipal council.
  • Smaller public contracts, below the European thresholds.

See also where our tax money goes across Belgium →