Everything you need to know about school season tickets
You are a student, between 12 and 24 years old, and you wish to purchase or renew a school season ticket? This page gives you all the necessary information: the different types of season tickets, how to get the best fare, where to purchase your season ticket, etc.
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List of links
- The different types of season tickets
- How to purchase a season ticket?
- Who can purchase a school season ticket?
- How can one benefit from a reduced fare?
- + 18 years
- Update my family status?
- The validity of a MOBIB card?
- My child had a J season ticket
- A MOBIB card from another operator
- Synthesis of the transport rules
The different types of season tickets
STIB offers you two types of school season tickets: the STIB season ticket and the MTB season ticket. What's the difference between both? The geographic area covered by each option.
STIB school season ticket
Fares for one year:
- season ticket first child: € 50
- season ticket second child: € 50
- season ticket third child and next children: free
Features:
- Valid on the entire STIB network (except for the part Bourget-Brussels Airport)
- Support: MOBIB card
- Target group: students between 12 and 24 years old enrolled in daytime (at least 20h/4 days a week) or night-time (at least 9h/3 days a week) educational systems. Students older than 18 years old must send an original school attendance certificate dated with the current school/academic year to STIB.
- Sales outlets:
- GO EASY - BOOTIK
- KIOSK - GO (only renewal)
MTB school season ticket
Fares for one year:
- season ticket first child: € 90
- season ticket second child: € 90
- season ticket third child and next children: € 40
Features:
- Valid on the entire STIB network (except for the part Bourget-Brussels Airport) and on the networks of De Lijn, TEC and the SNCB in Brussels
- Support: MOBIB card
- Target group: students between 12 and 24 years old enrolled in daytime (at least 20h/4 days a week) or night-time (at least 9h/3 days a week) educational systems. Students older than 18 years old must send an original school attendance certificate dated with the current school/academic year to STIB.
- Sales outlets:
- GO EASY - BOOTIK
- KIOSK - GO (only renewal)
The MTB area includes the following stops
STIB: entire network (except for the part Bourget-Brussels Airport of lines 12 and 21)
De Lijn: all the stops within the Brussels-Capital Region as well as some stops in the areas of: Diegem, Dilbeek, Groot-Bijgaarden, Kraainem, Linkebeek, Lot, Machelen, Ruisbroek, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Strombeek-Bever, Vilvorde, Wemmel and Zellik. The exact limits are indicated on the network plan.
TEC: all the stops within the Brussels-Capital Region
SNCB: all the stations within the Brussels-Capital Region
You will find more information on the network plan. The MTB logos indicate the validity limits: the red logos are valid for all the lines, the black logos show the limit for De Lijn and TEC but not for the STIB line which is also passing there.
How to purchase a season ticket?
Do you want to renew or purchase a school season ticket? Follow these steps.
From 12 to 17 years old
Renew a school season ticket
- Go to the nearest GO vending machine
- Place your personal MOBIB card on the holder of the machine
- Select the season ticket of your choice
- Pay and you are done
Our other sales channels, KIOSK, BOOTIK and GO EASY remain at your disposal.
Purchase a new school season ticket
- Go to a BOOTIK with an identity document and a photo if it's not an eID or use our online platform GO EASY with your eID
- Purchase a personal MOBIB card
- Load your school season ticket on the card
- Pay and you are done
From 18 to 24 years old
Renew a school season ticket
- Send us your original school attendance certificate dated with the current school/academic year and delivered by a Belgian school establishment via school.stib-mivb.be
- The day after receiving the confirmation, go to the nearest GO vending machine
- Place your personal MOBIB card on the holder of the machine
- Select the season ticket of your choice
- Pay and you are done
Our other sales channels, KIOSK, BOOTIK and GO EASY remain at your disposal.
Purchase a new school season ticket
- Go to a BOOTIK with an identity document and a photo if it's not an eID or use our online platform GO EASY with your eID. In both cases you will need an original school attendance certificate dated with the current school/academic year and delivered by a Belgian school establishment.
- Purchase a personal MOBIB card
- Load your school season ticket on the card
- Pay and you are done
Download the school certificate 2018-2019 in French or in Dutch.
Who can purchase a school season ticket?
Every student between 12 and 24 years old enrolled in daytime (at least 20h/4 days a week) or night-time (at least 9h/3 days a week) educational systems in a Belgian school.
Warning: students between 18 and 24 years old must send an original school attendance certificate dated with the current school/academic year to STIB. You can send your school certificate through our platform school.stib-mivb.be.
The certificate must be dated with the current academic year. If dates limit the certificate, they prevail over the academic year. Warning: the year must be complete in order to be able to benefit from a preferential fare.
If you already benefit from a preferential fare (BIM, RIS), check the most advantageous formula for you.
How can one benefit from a reduced fare?
A reduced fare is allocated from the 3rd season ticket bought by one family under certain conditions.
- If several school season tickets must be bought by one family, the reduced fare is only possible if the family status is up to date. If you have not yet taken these steps, go to school.stib-mivb.be, complete the form (MOBIB card number (19 digits), first name and surname), tick the box "The number of children who can have a school season ticket at a reduced fare in my family has changed since my last purchase." and send us the form. The next day, you will be able to purchase your season ticket.
- The reduced fare does not depend on the age of the season ticket receivers but on the chronological order of purchase of the various season tickets;
- All season tickets must start at the same tariff period (from 1 February 2019 to 31 January 2020).
+ 18 years
You are between 18 and 24 years old and you want to purchase or renew a school season ticket? To benefit from the preferential fare for the purchase or renewal of your school season ticket, you need to send us your original school attendance certificate dated with the current school/academic year and delivered by a Belgian school establishment.
Renew a school season ticket
- Send us your school certificate through our platform school.stib.be
- After validation of your certificate and confirmation via e-mail, go to nearest GO vending machine the next day
- Place your MOBIB card on the card holder of the machine
- Select your school season ticket
- Pay and you are done
Purchase a new school season ticket
Update my family status?
When the number of children who can receive a school season ticket has changed, you must update your family status.
If you purchase a season ticket for the 1st time, your family status will be updated during your purchase with your eID card (in the BOOTIK or on GO EASY). To renew, just update your family status on school.stib.be.
E.g.: You have two children of respectively 11 and 13 years old. Your first child has bought a STIB school season ticket. The next year, your 2nd child is now 12 years old and receives a reduced fare, so you need to send us a family composition.
The validity of a MOBIB card?
From the moment it is issued, the MOBIB card is only valid for five years maximum.
In the event of a defective card which did not reach 5 years and does not bear any trace of physical deterioration (folded, split, etc.), we provide a free exchange. If the card is more than 5 years old, a new card is sold at the price of 5 euros.
My child had a J season ticket
The J season ticket (free STIB season ticket for children younger than 12 years old) of your child was loaded on a personal MOBIB card. To purchase a school season ticket, you simply need to load it on this MOBIB card. Thus, you do not have to purchase a new card.
A MOBIB card from another operator
You can load your school season ticket on every personal MOBIB card, including the MOBIB cards from the other Belgian operators. If you purchase your season ticket in a BOOTIK, it will immediately be loaded on your card.
If you purchase your season ticket online, you need to make STIB recognise your card first. How? Place your card on a GO vending machine.
Synthesis of the transport rules
At all times and without any compensation, the user shall comply with any (tariff or other) amendment of his current transport ticket as well as any change of STIB's offer or more generally the access and use conditions of the public transportation services, following a decision taken by the competent authority or organ within the respect of the applying rules. The user must validate his transport ticket before any journey. At the above-ground stops, the transport ticket must be validated at each boarding or connection in a bus or tram. In the underground metro and premetro stations, the user must validate his transport ticket at the control zones. The user must present his transport ticket upon request of a member of STIB's control staff acting in the course of his duties. If the user has a nominative MOBIB card, he must prove his identity upon request of a member of STIB's control staff acting in the course of his duties.