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The Education Trade Fair

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Date

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

Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH & Co. KG

Messepiazza 1
70629 Stuttgart
Germany
Fon: +49 711 18560-0
Fax: +49 711 18560-2440
info@messe-stuttgart.dehttp://www.messe-stuttgart.de

Project team

dagmar.weise@messe-stuttgart.dehttps://www.messe-stuttgart.de/didacta/
Fon: +49 711 18560-2674
Fax: +49 711 18560-1674

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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
2/2025
Exhibitors
679
Domestic
582
Abroad
97
Other represented firms
61
Visitors (number of admissions)
58.860
Domestic
57.094
Abroad
1.766
Space (gross)
63.000
Space (net)
24.850
Special show space
3.582
Exhibitor stand space
21.268
Hall space
21.268
Domestic
19.391
Abroad
1.877
Open air
0
Domestic
0
Abroad
0
Origin of exhibitors 2025 from 45 countries
Australia1
Austria10
Belgium3
Brazil1
Bulgaria1
Canada2
Chile2
China, People's Republic4
Colombia1
Czechia1
Denmark3
Ecuador1
Egypt1
El Salvador1
Estonia1
Finland2
France7
Germany582
Guatemala1
Hong Kong, China SAR1
Hungary2
India1
Italy4
Japan1
Kazakhstan1
Latvia1
Lithuania1
Luxembourg1
Mexico2
Netherlands6
Peru1
Philippines1
Portugal1
Romania1
Serbia1
Singapore1
Slovakia2
Spain1
Switzerland6
Taiwan3
Türkiye4
United Arab Emirates1
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland6
United States of America3
Venezuela1
FKM trade visitor structure
2/2025
Visitors (number of admissions)
58860
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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