Join two upcoming EdTech Policy Lab sessions

Defining dialogue infrastructure for digital education

Trust in digital education is hard to build. Recent debates around data breaches, platform dependency, AI, procurement, evidence, and smartphone bans continue to show how quickly questions of trust, governance, implementation, and public value move to the centre of digital education policy.

These debates also point to a wider structural challenge: digital education policy cannot rely on fragmented conversations, reactive decisions, or isolated initiatives alone.

There is a growing need for better, more balanced, and commonly understood dialogue infrastructure: spaces and processes that allow education policy, administration, practice, research, civil society, and the EdTech sector to engage with each other in ways that are structured, transparent, legitimate, and connected to implementation.

Through the EdTech Policy Lab, the EEA is exploring how such dialogue spaces can be designed and supported in practice.

Over the coming weeks, we are opening two opportunities to engage with this work.

Online workshop:
Making public-private dialogue work in practice

Date: 19 May
Time: 10:00–11:30 CET
Language: German
Format: Online

This open workshop will focus on what makes public-private dialogue in digital education work in practice.

Together with participants, we will explore the conditions that make dialogue spaces credible and useful. These include clear roles, shared expectations, appropriate safeguards, links to real decision-making processes, and a better understanding of the different constraints under which public authorities, education institutions, researchers, civil society actors, and EdTech providers operate.

The workshop is open to anyone working on or around digital education, EdTech, education policy, administration, school practice, research, procurement, quality assurance, implementation, or ecosystem development.

Register here for the workshop

Open Listening Session 2:
Dialogue formats in the Netherlands and Finland

Date: 29 May
Time: 11:00–12:00 CET
Language: English
Format: Online

Our second Open Listening Session will explore how public-private dialogue is being approached in the Netherlands and Finland.

The session will look at how these ecosystems create structured spaces for exchange, who is involved, how trust is built, and how dialogue connects to real decision-making around digital education.

As with our first Open Listening Session, the aim is not to identify a single “best model” or to suggest that formats can simply be copied from one country to another. Instead, we want to understand what different dialogue formats make possible, what conditions support them, and what other ecosystems might learn from their experience.

Register here for the listening session

Dialogue at the intersection of trust and policy

Across Europe, education systems are being asked to make increasingly complex decisions about digital infrastructure, procurement, quality assurance, data protection, AI, digital learning resources, and implementation. These kinds of questions and challenges cannot be answered by one actor group alone, and they require trust and an understanding of the strengths that each stakeholder brings into dialogue processes.

This, in turn, requires dialogue spaces that are trusted, practical, and useful — not only for exchanging perspectives, but for improving how digital education decisions are made, understood, and implemented.

Join one or both sessions, and follow along as we continue exploring what effective dialogue infrastructure for European EdTech could look like.