EEA Friday TL;DR

(March 27 2026)

What moved in European EdTech this week

💖 From the EEA

• Launch of the Global EdTech Alliance of Alliances:
  This week in Paris as part of the Global Education Coalition Annual Meeting, we were proud to officially launch the Global EdTech Alliance of Alliances and vote in the first board of this exciting group, which connects and brings together diverse experiences and perspectives from all regions of the world.

• Visibility Learning Lab:

  Last chances to register for the Visibility Learning Lab, which takes place next week!

• Starting in May 2026, Sign up for the European EdTech Fellowship:with a focus on structure, sustainability and digital sovereignty.

🌍 Ecosystem signals

• European Commission is investigating Snapchat's compliance with child protection rules under the Digital Services Act
  Snapchat may have breached the DSA by exposing minors to grooming attempts and recruitment for criminal purposes, as well as to information about the sale of illegal goods, like drugs, or age-restricted products, such as vapes and alcohol.

📚 Worth reading

• New report: Digital skills among young Swedes is declining, and the gap starts in school
  Anew report shows that digital competence among young people in Sweden is declining and unevenly distributed. The gap between those who have it and those who do not is already established at school age. At the same time, Sweden, a nation built on tech, faces high unemployment and a growing skills mismatch. Swedish Edtech, behind the report, warns that current policy is heading in the wrong direction: “What we need is not less digital competence, but better and more equally distributed digital competence.” 

• Artificial Intelligence in Bulgarian School Education
  This report assesses how AI is entering Bulgarian school education—examining its implications for learning quality, teacher effectiveness, and institutional modernization. It maps how national policy, digital infrastructure, local innovation, and emerging classroom practice are shaping this transition. Drawing on 2025 evidence collected by The World Bank Group’s Education Global Practice, it identifies what must change for Bulgaria to move from promising but uneven experimentation toward coherent, equitable, and systemwide implementation.

• A roadmap to ensure education potential is realised in Germany
  A jointly developed federal–state roadmap, created in response to the latest IQB results in Germany, signals a shift away from fragmented EdTech adoption towards a more coordinated, system-level approach centred on data, shared standards and governance. Digitalisation is increasingly treated as a question of how systems are steered, not just which tools are used. Overall, the roadmap reinforces a broader European reality, even though the role of EdTech within formal decision-making structures is still not fully defined. The key challenge remains in how to align actors, data and decision-making across the system.

• The Scottish Government released guidelines for AI in schools
  These guidelines are structured around five principles and makes strong statements about the place of AI in education, for example stating that AI must not make decisions on behalf of teachers and schools.

👀 One thing we’re watching

• Changes to the EU AI Act: ‍ ‍
  On Thursday, Parliament adopted its position on a simplification (omnibus) proposal amending artificial intelligence (AI) legislation by 569 votes to 45, with 23 abstentions. The proposal will delay the application of certain rules relating to high-risk AI systems to ensure that guidance and standards to help companies implement them are ready. Members of Parliament approve a simplification of AI rules, propose clear implementation dates for high-risk systems and a ban on nudity systems.

👋 That’s it for this week.

If there’s something happening in the European EdTech ecosystem we should be watching, feel free to share it!