Wrapping up 2025
European EdTech Alliance Briefing, December '25
2025 has been a pivotal year for European EdTech. From reshaping how the ecosystem maps itself, to elevating the policy conversation, to reconnecting in person at events from Sofia to Strasbourg — the work has been wide-reaching, collaborative, and grounded in shared purpose.
As the European EdTech Alliance, we’ve focused not just on visibility, but on credibility, capacity, and community. The result? A stronger foundation, and a clearer path forward into an exciting 2026.
Read on for a quick look at some of the actions that made this year so eventful for us. We wish all of you peace and joy during this holiday period.
Beth Havinga
Managing Director, European EdTech Alliance
🚀 We Launched:
The Global Edtech Alliance of Alliances: a new community for EdTech Alliances and Associations from around the world working together to develop ecosystem sustainability, share vital experience and knowledge, and promote collaborative initiatives grounded in evidence and equity. Missed the launch? Check out the video and report here.
The EdTech Funding Database: As part of our map environment and with the generous support of the Jacobs Foundation, we launched a European funding database. With automatically updated opportunities for funding and targeted search possibilities helping you to understand funding applicability. We look forward to expanding this database into more global regions in 2026.
The European EdTech Map: Technically a relaunch, we have seen hundreds of new companies joining our re-designed European EdTech Map, which now features easier searching, verified companies, and an easier interface for finding partners, ideas and Edtech Organisations. Not on the map yet? Make sure to fill in the short survey and be part of the European EdTech Map.
The EdTech Learning Labs:
In response to many requests for community learning opportunities, the EEA Learning Labs were launched and provide immersive, expert-led programs built for professionals and innovators navigating the evolving landscape of education, technology, and workforce development. Each Lab offers a focused experience combining research-based insights, real-world case studies, peer collaboration and experts’ views to tackle urgent, high-impact challenges in EdTech. Register your interest for next year’s labs today!
An Early Stage Female EdTech Fellowship:
The Early Stage fellowship track was designed and launched to support aspiring female entrepreneurs ready to transform their EdTech ideas into viable startups. This 4-week online programme offers mentorship, practical learning, and a supportive community to help you navigate the initial phases of your entrepreneurial journey. We loved meeting our first cohort and are excited to have you as part of our fellowship community. We have three different fellowships opening up for early 2026 - Make sure to get your application in on time and become a fellow!
The EdTech Policy Lab:
As a project of the Forum Bildung Digitalisierung together with the Bertelsmann Stiftung, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Vodafone Stiftung Germany as well as the Heraeus Bildungsstiftung, the EEA are excited to be part of the work building a network of key stakeholders to promote sustainable cooperation structures. The goal of the project is to strengthen the potential of collaboration through cooperative, transparent interaction. In structured dialogue formats, representatives from ministries, authorities, and EdTech associations discuss topics related to procurement, awarding, quality assurance, and digital infrastructure. Find out more about the project here >
👀 Coming in 2026:
The European EdTech Policy Map: Building on our yearly policy roadmap reports, we have created an interactive way of navigating key policy needs and submitting your own suggestions for solutions.
📚 We Published:
The European EdTech Startup Ecosystem:
A summary overview of the European EdTech Ecosystem to highlight how the EdTech sector, home to over 7,800 companies and 400,000 employees, represents one of Europe’s greatest untapped competitive advantages.Building Trust in EdTech: Exploring evidence-based approaches:
Over 12 months, the EEA brought together diverse stakeholders, from educators and developers to policymakers and researchers, for an open and collaborative discussion about the critical role of trust, evidence, and alliances in the EdTech ecosystem. The final report summarising the responses of participants and our research.The European EdTech Ecosystem Roadmap Report:
As part of the EmpowerED project, the EEA has released a report identifying key barriers to digital innovation within Europe’s education sectors. The report offers example solutions to building a cohesive, well-supported, and thriving EdTech ecosystem in Europe. This is part 1 of the roadmap.
👀 Coming in 2026:
The Needs-Based EdTech Evidence Map:
Continuing our work of the EdTech Strategy Lab Project, this report explores what counts as evidence, how evidence is understood and used throughout the ecosystem, what evidence needs exist, and suggest a more coherent evidence ecosystem.The Final European EdTech Ecosystem Roadmap: Towards Excellence in Educational Innovation
The next instalment in best practice policy ideas and implementations and a roadmap for what we need to do to become a sustainable innovation ecosystem. This report was produced as part of the EmpowerED project.Year 3 State of Play of EdTech & the EdTech Ecosystem in Europe:
A snapshot of key activities, themes driving change and action within Europe, challenges and hurdles to innovation, and successful enablers. This report was produced as part of the EmpowerED project.
📚 We contributed to shaping conversations and expanding the EdTech network at:
Nordic EdTech Summit – Malmö
Konferenz Bildung Digitalisierung – Berlin
EIT EdTech Conference – Brussels
Digital Stakeholder Workshops on Digital Education Content - Brussels
TEKLA Visit- Helsinki
Council of Europe AI & Education Working Conference – Strasbourg
All-Ukrainian Conference – Kyiv
Educa Fachtagung– Bern
Female EdTech Fellowship Retreats – Paris
Global Edtech Testbed Network - Malmö
EmpowerED EdTech in Finland - Helsinki
Sustainability Learning Lab – Sofia
Launch event of the AoA - Online
Global Education Coalition – Paris
Digital Learning Week – Paris
Empowering the European EdTech Ecosystem Summit - Sofia
See you in 2026!
🇬🇧 BETT Show | 21-23 January 2026 | London, UK.
Bett UK is back for 2026 with 35,000+ trailblazers from across the globe and over 3,000 bright young minds, 400+ world-class speakers and the energy of our global education community - Registration is open!
🇪🇸 EdTech Congress Barcelona | 4-5 February 2026 | Barcelona, ES.
Join the largest EdTech event in Spain with over 2000 attendees. Registration is generously free for EEA members - Find out more here!
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