Educ'ARTE

What Educ'ARTE does

Educ'ARTE is an educational video-on-demand platform operated by ARTE ÉDUCATION (SAS), a subsidiary of ARTE France, the public Franco-German broadcaster. Headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, the platform was launched in 2016 with co-development support from the French Ministry of Education, the Île-de-France Region, and RIAM. It serves primary and secondary schools — primarily in France and Germany, but accessible in 14+ countries — by repackaging curated ARTE documentary and cultural content into rights-cleared educational video and accompanying pedagogical resources.

The catalog comprises over 8,000 indexed entries, including roughly 3,400 videos and more than 200 educational sheets, available in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, and Polish. The platform integrates pedagogical workflow tools, notably the RENKAN mind-mapping application, which allows teachers to construct structured learning pathways around video content. It is designed for institutional deployment, with SSO integration aligned to French educational digital workspaces (ENT) and accessible under French RGAA accessibility compliance.

The business model is an annual institutional subscription sold to schools, educational networks, and cultural/mediation organizations, with grant funding from public sources supplementing subscription revenue. Distribution is supported through partnerships with the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO), publisher Ernst Klett Verlag in German-speaking markets, and the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation (IRI) at Centre Pompidou. A 2024 Creative Europe MEDIA grant funds the Educ'ARTE+ project, aimed at further European territorial and linguistic expansion. Single identified executive is Frédéric Bereyziat, Publishing Director.

Name

Educ'ARTE

Legal name

ARTE ÉDUCATION

Website

https://educ.arte.tv

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Educ'ARTE is a French educational video-on-demand platform operated by ARTE France's subsidiary that delivers curated documentary content and pedagogical tools to schools across 14+ countries on annual institutional subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Media Platform

NAICS

Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Interactive Multimedia Learning Content (Video, Audio, Interactive Lessons) (EDAFACAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Lecture Capture, Live Streaming & Class Recording (EDAFABAD), Special Education & Accessibility-Optimized Media (UDL, AAC, Captioning) (EDAGALAH)

Keywords

• Educational video streaming
• Multilingual media platform
• Institutional video subscriptions
• Documentary education content
• K-12 media resources

Headquarters

HQ city

Issy-les-moulineaux

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Annual Institutional Subscription: ARTE ÉDUCATION sells annual memberships to educational institutions (schools, CFAs, INSPEs, and French/German educational institutions abroad). Access is granted for the full duration of the subscription. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and handled via sales inquiries.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Educ'ARTE is a subscription-based educational video-on-demand (VoD) platform that streams curated ARTE documentary programming to schools and educational institutions. The platform provides multilingual content (French, German, English, Spanish, Polish) integrated with pedagogical tools including mind mapping, teaching sequences, transcriptions, and educational sheets, designed to support curriculum delivery in primary, secondary, and higher education.

Product overview

Educ'ARTE is a subscription-based educational video-on-demand platform operated by ARTE Education (a simplified joint stock company with capital of €750,000, registered in France) that provides streaming and temporary download access to over 8,000 ARTE audiovisual programmes for educational institutions. The core Educ'ARTE platform serves as the central offering, supported by integrated features including the RENKAN mind-mapping tool for content organization, teaching sequence/extract creation for pedagogical customization, multilingual transcriptions (French, German, English), and educational support materials. The platform's content catalog spans videos, educational sheets, thematics, and series organized across Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Languages, and other subject areas, targeting primary through high school levels with language proficiency levels from A1 to C2.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Educ'ARTE Platform
• Educ'ARTE+

Quantifiable outcome

• Supported by the Franco-German Youth Office since its creation, reaching nearly 9 million young people from France and Germany through 320,000 exchange programmes
• +1 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• French Ministry of National EducationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016The Edu-Up scheme supporting the production of digital resources for schools (RNE) supported the creation of Educ'ARTE in 2016.
• Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO / OFAJ)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAn international organization promoting Franco-German cooperation since 1963. Nearly 9 million young people from France and Germany have participated in 320,000 exchange programmes. The FGYO provides digital resources including Tele-Tandem, Parkur, and Mobidico. Since its creation, the FGYO has supported the development of Educ'ARTE in both France and Germany.
• Institute for Research and Innovation (IRI)coreTechnology or IntegrationCreated in 2006 by the Centre Pompidou, the IRI studies and supports cultural, scientific, and economic transformations linked to the digital era, and develops new participatory critical tools. The IRI notably developed the RENKAN mind-mapping tool used by Educ'ARTE.
• Ernst Klett VerlagminorGTM or Marketing PartnerOne of the most important educational publishers in Germany, producing multidisciplinary resources adapted to all school levels for general and vocational education. Part of the Klett Group, a leader in the European education market present in 16 countries. For several years, it has supported projects promoting media literacy and cultural exchanges with France.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ZDFmediathek (ZDF educational content): ZDF is Germany's largest public broadcaster and offers educational programming and mediathek content parallel to ARTE in the German market. As the German counterpart to ARTE, ZDF's educational offerings and school-facing multimedia directly overlap with Educ'ARTE's positioning in DACH schools and serve as the most direct domestic alternative for German institutions.
• SchoolMouv: SchoolMouv is a French EdTech subscription platform offering curriculum-aligned video lessons, exercises, and teacher resources for collège and lycée students. It targets the same French K-12 institutional buyers as Educ'ARTE via annual subscriptions, differing by focusing on academic instruction rather than curated documentary content.
• Maxicours: Maxicours is a long-standing French online education subscription platform serving primary through high-school students with video lessons, exercises, and teacher dashboards. It is a direct competitor in the French K-12 institutional subscription market and competes for the same education-budget line items as Educ'ARTE.
• Les Bons Profs: Les Bons Profs is a French subscription-based educational platform providing on-demand video lessons, homework help, and exam revision across the French curriculum. It targets the same French secondary-school institutional buyers and competes for annual school/parent subscription budgets alongside Educ'ARTE.

Emerging players

• Brilliant.org: Brilliant is a subscription EdTech platform delivering interactive STEM and thinking-skills content to students and adult learners. It overlaps with Educ'ARTE as a premium subscription learning platform but focuses on interactive practice and STEM rather than multilingual documentary content.
• Khan Academy: Khan Academy is a major global non-profit EdTech platform offering free instructional videos, practice exercises, and teacher tools across K-12 and beyond. It competes with Educ'ARTE for teacher attention and classroom screen time, though its content is instructional/tutor-led rather than documentary/curated cultural programming.

Broad incumbents

• Discovery Education / Discovery+ Education: Discovery Education is a major global K-12 EdTech provider offering curriculum-aligned streaming video content, lesson plans, and teacher tools. It is comparable to Educ'ARTE as a documentary-grade video platform sold institutionally to schools, differing by English-first global scale and a deeper teacher-tool/assessment suite.
• BBC Bitesize: BBC Bitesize is the UK's primary public broadcaster-owned educational platform, offering free curriculum-linked video and multimedia content to schools and learners. Like Educ'ARTE, it monetizes a public-service broadcaster's content library through a branded education offering, but operates at much larger UK-and-global scale and is free rather than subscription-based.
• PBS LearningMedia: PBS LearningMedia is the U.S. public broadcaster's free educational platform, providing curriculum-aligned video and interactive content for K-12 educators. It is directly comparable to Educ'ARTE in institutional positioning and the use of broadcaster-grade content for schools, differing mainly by free access model and English-only U.S. focus.

Others

• ARTE Campus (predecessor / sister offering): ARTE Campus is the prior/companion ARTE France educational platform whose contact email ([email protected]) is still referenced on Educ'ARTE legal pages. As the predecessor initiative within the same ARTE ecosystem, it is the closest analog and the most likely consolidation peer if ARTE consolidates its educational offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/EducARTE-100064983742918
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/arte-education

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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