didacta Start-Ups
Concentrated innovation on 450 square meters: At didacta, the largest education trade fair in Europe, around 40 start-ups from the education sector are presenting themselves at a joint stand in cooperation with EDUvation.
The Didacta Association is presenting the Didacta Start-up Award of the Year for the third time.
The Didacta Association is looking for innovative solutions, products or services that rethink education and promote lifelong learning - whether digital or analog! Didacta offers the perfect stage to put innovative education companies in the spotlight.
The high-profile jury 2025:
- Max Maendler is the founder of eduki, business angel, co-initiator of the country's largest education hackathon #wirfürschule and mentor for start-ups. As the entrepreneur behind eduki (formerly Lehrermarktplatz), he is an example of how a vision and business idea in Germany can develop into an internationally active company.
- Milena Pflügl is a board member of the Didacta Association and head of the Start-ups Committee. As the founder of two start-ups in the education sector, she brings her passion for education to the jury.
- Tobias Himmerich is co-founder of EDUvation - Germany's only service agency in the education sector and organizer of the didacta Start-up Area, and has extensive knowledge of educational innovation.
- Dr. Ingo Dahm represents the investor side of our jury and brings valuable insights from the world of finance to the evaluation of the start-ups.
- Stephan Scharnagl is an entrepreneur from the education sector and a long-standing Didacta member. He understands the intricacies of the education market and its development potential.