Nordic EdTech News #136: 2025-06-09

Your Weeks 22 to 23 update from the Nordic and Baltic EdTech ecosystem

Jun 09, 2025

Nordic EdTech News is the best way to keep up with the EdTech ecosystem across 8 Nordic and Baltic countries. I curate it from company updates and a wide variety of international sources. It’s a passion project of mine - the rest of my time is spent running 10Digits, a consultancy for EdTech businesses who want to grow with pace and purpose.

Hello and welcome to today’s Nordic EdTech News. Grab another coffee and let’s dive into the latest updates from across the ecosystem.

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Before getting into a flurry of important policy updates, I wanted to start with news of two major acquisitions / consolidations in Nordic EdTech. The largest saw Denmark’s Shape Robotics acquire Finland’s Sanako in an all share deal (Link).

Previous editions of this newsletter have highlighted Shape’s high % of revenues from Romania, so Sanako’s broad international presence and reseller network will have certainly been of interest. Sanako’s language teaching technologies also help develop Shape’s curriculum focus beyond STEAM. The deal is worth € 8.7 million, which will be paid in new Shape Robotics shares. Mark Abraham, CEO of Shape Robotics, commented: “Together, we will deliver a broader and more impactful EdTech platform to schools around the world and accelerate our international expansion.”

The other acquisition story comes from Iceland, where Miðeind has concluded an agreement with Forlagið to purchase Snöra (Link). The deal brings together “two key companies in the field of Icelandic language technology and digital language solutions with the goal of strengthening the position of Icelandic in the digital world.”

A quick review of the key policy moves over the last fortnight follows below.

In Denmark, ministers confirmed that the law behind the schools’ mobile phone ban will not be presented before October. The Danish Agency for IT and Learning also published new guidance on the use of AI to help schools and teachers. (Link)
Estonia announced that Ivo Visak, an upper secondary school headteacher, will be the CEO of the AI Leap programme.
Do check out the Digitalisation of Pre-Primary and Basic Education Situation Report 2025 recently published by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.
The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (Udir) launched their new Teaching Materials Catalogue. The service is the first of its kind in Norway (and the Nordic / Baltics?), and gives “users the opportunity to search for teaching materials based on subject, language and grade level.”
Sweden’s government presented a new national digitisation strategy for 2025–2030, albeit one with minimal references to education or learning. Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, announced that a new AI national strategy would soon follow.
The European EdTech Alliance powerfully highlighted their concern that across Europe “education, and with it EdTech, is being quietly erased from strategic focus.”

That being said, the social media coverage of the recent Helsinki EdTech Day showed that Finnish EdTech is in rude health. While we wait for the Finnish EdTech Report 2025, EdTech Finland’s excellent new market map provides a great snapshot of current solutions by category.

EdTech Estonia is looking for all Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian EdTechs to fill out a quick survey to help attract the attention of major international investors to the Baltic region. You can find further details here.

It’s fascinating to see how Kahoot! has accelerated its growth since leaving public markets. According to press reports, the business increased its revenue by 17% to $99.8 million in 2024. At the same time, operating expenses were reduced by 19%, which meant that EBIT improved to $36.3 million. Overall, their annual profit grew by 73% to $40.2 million.

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News from Denmark

“Every fourth student uploads textbooks illegally to chatbots.”
"Crisis in collaboration" as university leaders fire the chairman of DeiC, their IT organisation. (Link)
Soon to be published research shows ChatTutor significantly outperformed both ChatGPT and traditional teaching methods in two large-scale studies. (Link)
Gyldendal has raised its expectations for revenue and EBIT in 2025. Revenue is now expected to be DKK 760-800 million with EBIT at DKK 35-45 million. (Link)
SKIDOS combines education with fun in a new series of Angry Birds learning games featuring maths and creativity. (Link)
UNIwise is now ISO/IEC 27001: 2022 certified, which confirms “a long-term structured approach to risk management, data protection, and compliance.” (Link)

News from Estonia

At the EdTech Estonia panel at Latitude59 in Tallinn, Baltic EdTech companies and education experts discussed how the sector’s experience could help solve pressing problems in education. (Link)
kood/Jõhvi is expanding its self-directed learning model to Ukraine and Kenya, aiming to boost digital skills and empower a new generation of tech talent. (Link)

News from Finland

Code School Finland has been working with the Egyptian Ministry of Education to modernise and integrate AI into upper secondary education. (Link)
Eduten is currently running more than 70 school pilots across the Czech Republic. (Link)
The HundrED Foundation has been launched to build “funding opportunities for emerging education innovations around the world.” (Link)
Congrats to Sari Hurme-Mehtälä, Managing Director of Kide Science, who has been named as one of the "50 most influential women leaders in the technology sector in Finland." (Link)
Qridi is now ISO 27001 certified. This international recognition shows that they “take care of information security issues properly and systematically.” (Link)

News from Iceland

Congratulations to the winners and shortlisted entries at the Education Festival 2025 Awards.
New collaboration between Bara tala and 50skills will support Iceland’s diverse labour market. (Link)

News from Latvia

Teachers nationwide are increasingly interested in improving their digital skills. (Link)
By the end of 2029, a large-scale digitalization of the study process will be implemented in Latvian higher education institutions. (Link)
Exonicus, who develops AR trauma training for defence and emergency services, has raised €85K from the Latvian Business Angels Network (LatBAN). (Link)

News from Lithuania

Good to see EdTech Lithuania engaging with OpenAI to explore how AI can be a “driver of real, systemic change.” (Link)
When teachers build the tech: co-creating EditAI with educators. (Link)
Three Cubes and partners relaunch Super Citizen to help students in grades 8-12 to improve their knowledge of democracy, responsibility and community. (Link)

News from Norway

An extra NOK 12 million will be made available for school libraries as part of the revised national budget. (Link)
Interesting to see new research showing a slight decline in digital media use in Norwegians aged between 15 and 24.
BS Undervisning has rebranded and will now be known as Lære. (Link)
IKT Norge argues that removing digital skills from the curriculum will “weaken children and young people's ability to understand, handle and master the digital world they already live in.”
Ludenso has been awarded the EduEvidence Bronze badge for efficacy. (Link)
Pickatale has partnered with Oxford University Press to integrate their trusted School Dictionary and Thesaurus into the Pickatale reading experience. (Link)

News from Sweden

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg find that a lack of national guidance “creates uncertainty and significant variation between schools, which ultimately reduces the equity of students’ educational development” (Link).
Örnsköldsvik municipality will use Allbry to better support student health provision. (Link)
Research with Karolinska Institutet suggests that Imvi can strengthen reading skills and focus in students with reading difficulties. (Link)
Magma has secured new agreements with Mark and Partille Municipalities. (Link)
Skolon’s event at Almedalen will focus on how to create “a school for everyone and for the future?” (Link)
Great to see how staff from the City of Gothenburg helped influence and shape future digital products with Trelson. (Link)
Lidingö tests TRUE’s blockchain technology to provide students with more secure digital grade certification. (Link)