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THE EUROPEAN EDTECH POLICY MAP

GOAL 5
Knowledge is shared across the European EdTech ecosystem.

Across Europe, valuable EdTech initiatives and research often remain isolated within local contexts, limiting visibility and impact. Successful innovations rarely scale or inspire adaptation elsewhere, while lessons from failures are seldom shared, leading to duplication and missed opportunities. The absence of effective knowledge exchange mechanisms hinders cross-border learning and collective intelligence, weakening the overall impact and innovation potential of the European EdTech ecosystem.
There is a need for spaces that allow for knowledge exchange among policymakers, EdTech providers, educators and educational institutions, researchers, investors, and EdTech support organisations, such as associations, incubators and accelerators, testing environments, and other education stakeholders.

If this goal is achieved:

Successful innovations can scale across contexts, while failures provide valuable lessons, fostering collective intelligence, cross-border learning, and a culture of evidence-based practice that reduces duplication and strengthens impact.

For further reading and context on this topic, see the following sources:

  • Council of the European Union (2024). Council conclusions on promoting evidence-informed policy and practice in education and training to achieve the European Education Area. C/2024/3642. Official Journal of the European Union.
     

  • EmpowerED project (2024). State of Play of EdTech & the European EdTech Ecosystem, December 2024, European EdTech Alliance, Germany. 
     

  • EmpowerED project (2025, unpublished report). State of Play of EdTech & the EdTech Ecosystem in Europe 2025, European EdTech Alliance, Germany.
     

  • Havinga, B. & Clary, A. (2024). The European EdTech Ecosystem Roadmap: Towards Excellence in Educational Innovation. European EdTech Alliance. Bielefeld, Germany. 
     

  • Pihlajamaa, J. & Karjalainen, J. (2025, unpublished report). Supporting Collaboration Across the European EdTech Ecosystem, December 2025, Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland.

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