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The Education Trade Fair

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Date

20.02.-24.02.2024
11/02/-15/02/2025 10/03/-14/03/2026
Cycle: annually at different venues
Year founded: 1951
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Fairgrounds

Messegelände
Cologne
Germany

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Organisers

Koelnmesse GmbH

Messeplatz 1
50679 Cologne
Germany
Fon: +49 221 821-0
Fax: +49 221 821-2574
info@koelnmesse.dehttp://www.koelnmesse.de

Project team

didacta@koelnmesse.dehttps://www.didacta-koeln.de/

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Sector focus

Teaching and Learning Aids, Further and Continuing Education, Business Start-up, Human Resources Development (industry 52)
Books, Prints, Licences, Libraries (industry 14)

Main offerings

Audio-Visual Technology
Training Institutes Equipment
Services
Information Technology
Furnishings
Kindergarten
Laboratory Equipment
Teaching Aids
Educational Aids
Multimedia
Musical Accessories
Presentation Technology
School Supplies
Software
Toys
Sporting Goods
Supplementary Education
Amateur Handicraft Articles
Books
Professional Literature
Childrens Books
Teaching Books
Teaching Systems
Educational Programs
Educational Toys
New Media
School Equipment
Stationery

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Access

Trade visitors and general public

Direct sale

Yes

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Sponsors

Didacta Verband e.V., Darmstadt

Statistics

Key figures
2/2024
Exhibitors
726
Domestic
561
Abroad
165
Other represented firms
0
Visitors (number of admissions)
62.828
Domestic
60.391
Abroad
2.437
Space (gross)
46.400
Space (net)
22.849
Special show space
1.609
Exhibitor stand space
21.240
Hall space
21.240
Domestic
19.792
Abroad
1.448
Open air
0
Domestic
0
Abroad
0
Origin of exhibitors 2024 from 60 countries
Argentina4
Australia1
Austria10
Belgium4
Bolivia1
Brazil3
Canada2
Chile3
China, People's Republic6
Colombia2
Costa Rica1
Czechia3
Denmark5
Ecuador3
Egypt7
El Salvador1
Estonia1
Ethiopia1
Finland2
France5
Germany561
Ghana1
Greece1
Guatemala1
Hong Kong, China SAR2
Hungary3
India1
Indonesia1
Iran, Islamic Republic1
Ireland1
Israel1
Italy7
Japan2
Kenya1
Lithuania1
Luxembourg1
Mexico3
Namibia1
Netherlands15
Peru2
Philippines1
Poland3
Portugal3
Qatar1
Romania1
Saudi Arabia3
Singapore1
Slovakia1
South Africa3
Spain3
Sweden1
Switzerland10
Taiwan1
Thailand1
Türkiye8
Ukraine1
United Arab Emirates4
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland4
United States of America3
Uruguay1
FKM trade visitor structure
2/2024
Visitors (number of admissions)
62828
Proportion of trade visitors
96%
Total Germany (%)
99
Bremen
0
Hamburg
0
Lower Saxony
0
Schleswig-Holstein
0
North Rhine-Westphalia
0
Hesse
0
Rhineland-Palatinate
0
Saarland
0
Baden-Württemberg
74
Bavaria
12
Berlin
0
Brandenburg
0
Mecklenburg-West Pommerania
0
Saxony-Anhalt
0
Saxony
0
Thuringia
0
Professional position (%)
Entrepreneur, co-owner, freelancer
5
Managing director, board member, head of an authority etc.
4
Area manager, works manager, plant manager, branch manager, head of public office
3
Department head, group head, team leader
11
Other salaried staff, civil servant, skilled worker
17
Lecturer, teacher
20
Trainee
19
Other position
7
Student
13
Other not gainfully employed
1
Economic sectors (%)
General education system
28
Public authority, services, association
9
Vocational education system
13
Services, training, consulting
3
Adult education
3
Trade
1
Higher education system
1
Industry
2
University, research
2
Printed products, specialist literature
1
Administration
1
Preschool, kindergarten
31
Further education
1
Other
3
Distance to home (%)
Size of company/organization (%)
1 - 4
8
5 - 9
10
10 - 49
36
50 - 199
21
200 - 499
5
500 - 999
4
1 000 and more
8
Student
13
Other not employed
1
Influence on purchasing/procurement decisions (%)
decisively
10
collectively
33
in an advisory capacity/organization
22
no
27
Student
13
Other not gainfully employed
1
Frequency of trade fair visits (%)
Previous event
4
Earlier events
48
First visit
59
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Survey conducted by: Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH & Co. KG
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