Making Digital Education Effective
school@LEARNTEC 2026: Focus on AI, Digital Platforms, and Modern Learning Spaces
With the DigitalPakt 2.0, digital education is once again becoming a priority for school investments. Now that the DigitalPakt Schule has laid the foundation for a comprehensive digital education infrastructure in Germany, the task at hand is to strategically advance the digital transformation and integrate it into everyday educational practice. Key questions remain: How can digital technologies improve teaching in the long term? What skills do teachers and school administrators need? And how can artificial intelligence be used effectively and responsibly? LEARNTEC 2026, Europe’s leading trade fair for digital education in schools, higher education, and the workplace, addresses these questions and offers guidance, opportunities for exchange, and concrete solutions for practical application. In the school sector, this year’s focus is particularly on topics such as artificial intelligence and personalized learning, digital platforms, and modern learning spaces.
AI in Everyday School Life: Relief, Individualization, Transformation
Artificial intelligence has long been a topic in everyday school life, but its potential extends far beyond individual tools: AI can provide massive support for teaching, provided schools integrate it in a pedagogically meaningful way to relieve teachers while simultaneously enabling personalized learning processes. The Stuttgart-based startup BLX GmbH (Hall 1 | A45) is presenting its Learning Experience Management System (LXMS) at LEARNTEC, featuring the new AI-powered “BLX Designer,” which supports teachers in designing and structuring digital learning offerings and significantly simplifies the creation of storyboards. And CB Software (Hall 2 | I38), which is exhibiting at LEARNTEC for the first time this year, is bringing a brand-new product: the AI-based Lesebox app, which specifically trains and individually supports students’ reading fluency and reading comprehension. AI also runs like a common thread through the school@LEARNTEC program, including a session with Oliver Wiening on the topic “KI-Tipps für Lehrkräfte – Entlastung statt Mehraufwand” (May 7, 1:00–1:45 p.m., school@LEARNTEC Forum – Panel B, Hall 2). Micha Pallesche, responsible for the school@LEARNTEC section on the LEARNTEC Congress Committee, will moderate the talk “KI und digitale Schulentwicklung: Welche Unterstützung finden und brauchen Schulleitungen?“ (May 5, 1:00–2:30 p.m., Spotlight Stage school@LEARNTEC, Hall 2).
Creating Structures: Rethinking Platforms, Exams, and Organization
As digital infrastructure continues to expand, the question of sustainable structures is also coming to the forefront. To support educational work and avoid creating additional complexity, schools need integrated platforms, secure digital exam environments, and reliable administrative processes. The Austrian exhibitor bit media education solutions (Hall 2 | K10) develops software and platforms for digital learning and school administration, thereby supporting schools in implementing digitalization. H+H Software (Hall 2 | K39), part of the Alliance for Education joint booth, develops IT solutions that enable programs, data, and learning content to be provided and managed centrally and with low barriers to entry. This topic area is also reflected in the lecture program, for example in Lewis Erckenbrecht’s presentation on “Smart School Panel: Smart Schulträger – Wie moderne Bildungsverwaltung die Digitalisierung voranbringt” (May 6, 4–5 p.m.; Spotlight Stage school@LEARNTEC, Hall 2) or in „SCHULE@BW konkret | Vorstellung der Digitalen Bildungsplattform“ (May 6, 1:00–1:45 p.m., Forum school@LEARNTEC – Panel A, Hall 2).
The Learning Space of the Future: Flexible, Immersive, Connected
In digital school development, classrooms are transforming into hybrid, interactive environments where technology, spatial design, and pedagogy seamlessly interact to enable new forms of learning. The agenda includes presentations such as “Zukunft erleben: Lernen in virtuellen Welten” (May 7, 9:30–10:30 a.m., school@LEARNTEC Forum – Panel A, Hall 2) by Svenja Wißmann and “Räume, die Chancen schaffen: pädagogischer Schulbau im Kontext von Bildungsgerechtigkeit und digitalen Lernumgebungen” (May 5, 4–5 p.m., school@LEARNTEC Forum – Panel B, Hall 2). VS Vereinigte Spezialmöbelfabriken (Hall 2 | K37) will present their immersive learning space Miri, and Bellgardt Medientechnik (Hall 2 | J3) will provide media technology solutions for seamless digital learning. “Thanks to the DigitalPakt 2.0, previously unfinished projects in digital education can now be specifically addressed and completed. The key here is the transition to a holistic digitization of classrooms based on a well-thought-out overall concept that goes beyond individual products and offers both teachers and learners efficient and streamlined solutions,” says Thomas Bellgardt, Managing Director of Bellgardt Medientechnik.
Just how effective DigitalPakt 2.0 actually is in school practice will also be the focus of an expert panel discussion on May 6 at 2 p.m. (Hall 2, Spotlight Stage). Under the title “The Future of Schools – Expectations, Promises, and Reality of DigitalPakt 2.0,” participants will discuss how funding can be effectively translated into sustainable school development and what concrete solutions from the fields of practice, politics, and business are already available.
