Zentralstelle für ausländisches Bildungswesen

The Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB) is a department of the Secretariat of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK). The ZAB maintains the database "anabin", for the evaluation of foreign educational certificates. Together with the "Recognition in Germany" portal and the "BQ-Portal", "anabin" is one of the three central information services on the topic of recognition of foreign professional qualifications.