European Educational Publishers Group

What European Educational Publishers Group does

The European Educational Publishers Group (EEPG) is a Berlin-headquartered, non-profit membership association that connects 26 educational publishers operating across 25 European countries, including markets ranging from Austria and Germany to the Faroe Islands, Georgia, Kosovo, and Ukraine. The organization is structured as a network rather than a commercial enterprise, with members paying an annual fee of €4,400 (or €3,080 in a discounted first year) for access to collaboration infrastructure including three annual network meetings hosted by rotating member organizations, four newsletters per year, country-level education policy reports, and representation at supranational institutions such as the International Publishers Association's Educational Publishers Forum.

EEPG's core products are the BELMA (Best European Learning Materials Awards) competition, organized jointly with Frankfurt Book Fair and IARTEM since 2009; the recurring network meetings and an annual open conference; informational newsletters and country reports; and a weekly member spotlight interview series on its website. The underlying technology footprint is minimal: EEPG operates a standard informational website (eepg.org) with social media presence on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, but does not develop proprietary software platforms, APIs, or AI capabilities.

The business model is a subscription-style annual membership for European commercial educational publishers, with revenue derived almost exclusively from member dues. The organization is led by Director Helga Holtkamp and operates with 1-10 staff. Strategic positioning centers on giving members a unified European voice on educational publishing policy, knowledge exchange on topics such as digitalization, copyright, and curriculum reform, and industry recognition via BELMA.

Name

European Educational Publishers Group

Legal name

EEPG

Website

https://eepg.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

European Educational Publishers Group (EEPG) is a Berlin-based non-profit membership association connecting 26 educational publishers from 25 European countries, offering annual conferences, newsletters, country reports, and the BELMA learning materials awards.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Publishing Association

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Higher Education Admissions & Placement Exam Prep (GRE/GMAT/LSAT/MCAT) (EDAGADAC)

Keywords

• Educational publishing network
• Publisher membership association
• Pan-European publishing group
• BELMA learning awards
• Educational content collaboration

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership fees: The primary revenue source is annual membership fees. New members pay 4,400€ per year with a 30% first-year discount (3,080€). The membership provides access to network meetings, conferences, newsletters, BELMA awards participation, and representation in various publishing institutions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

EEPG is a non-profit membership network of 26 educational publishers from 25 European countries that provides collaboration, knowledge exchange, conferences, newsletters, and the annual BELMA (Best European Learning Materials Awards) competition. Its core deliverable is a community platform that connects publishers for cross-border policy advocacy, market insights, and best-practice sharing, funded by annual membership fees of 4,400€.

Product overview

The European Educational Publishers Group (EEPG) operates as a network of approximately 26 educational publishers from 25 European countries. The organization is not a product company in the traditional sense but rather provides a collaborative platform for knowledge exchange, best practices sharing, and advocacy for educational publishing. Its core offerings include the BELMA Award (Best European Learning Materials Awards) competition, three annual network meetings/conferences with renowned keynote speakers, four newsletters per year, and country reports on education across member nations. The EEPG represents educational publishers at international institutions and supports members with EU project applications and tendering for strategic alliances.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EEPG Network Platform A European network of educational publishers providing collaboration, knowledge exchange, best practices sharing, and innovation support for learning materials across 25 countries.
• BELMA Award (Best European Learning Materials Awards) Annual competition organized by EEPG together with the Frankfurt Book Fair and IARTEM, recognizing quality educational learning materials with independent expert jury evaluation. Open to non-members across Europe.
• EEPG Conferences and Network Meetings Three annual network meetings/conferences with keynote speakers where members discuss educational publishing topics including new business models, digitalization, copyright, and marketing strategies. The Annual Conference is open to non-members.
• EEPG Newsletters Four informative newsletters per year providing information on education developments across member countries and beyond.
• Country Reports Information and reports on education in member countries and beyond, providing market intelligence and policy insights.

Quantifiable outcome

• 26 member publishers from 25 countries connected through a single network
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• International Publishers Association (IPA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 July 2021The EEPG signed the IPA's InSPIRe Charter and announced collaboration to support the IPA's initiative. Areas of collaboration include: asserting publishing's value to policymakers, advocating for government stimulus programs, fostering dialogue between publishing ecosystem stakeholders, demonstrating piracy's damaging effects, fighting censorship, addressing workforce skills gaps, promoting access to knowledge and lifelong learning, empowering underrepresented voices, supporting indigenous language publishing, and highlighting small and medium publishers' role in bibliodiversity.
• Frankfurt Book FaircoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizer of the BELMA (Best European Learning Materials Awards) competition since 2009. The Frankfurt Book Fair hosts the annual BELMA award ceremony where winning educational materials are celebrated.
• IARTEM (International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizer of the BELMA awards competition since 2009, providing independent jury evaluation of educational materials through outstanding experts on schoolbooks and educational media.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• International Publishers Association (IPA): Global umbrella body for publishers' associations. EEPG is an IPA member and partner (signed InSPIRe Charter in 2021), but IPA operates at a global level across all publishing categories, while EEPG is a regional specialist focused solely on educational publishing.

Others

• IARTEM (International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media): International academic association for textbook and educational media research. Co-organizes BELMA with EEPG and the Frankfurt Book Fair; complementary rather than competitive, sharing the educational publishing research and policy agenda from an academic perspective.
• Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse): World's largest trade fair for books and publishing, and EEPG's core partner co-organizing BELMA since 2009. Not a direct competitor but a strategically adjacent platform that EEPG leverages for member visibility; also a potential channel partner for future EEPG expansion.

Regional players

• Association of American Publishers (AAP): US trade association of publishers providing advocacy, data, and member services. Functionally comparable to EEPG in operating as a membership-based publisher trade body, but serves North America rather than Europe and covers all publishing categories, not just educational.
• Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA): US-based membership association for independent publishers offering networking, education, and awards. Comparable to EEPG's community-led model and award program (BELMA), though focused on independent commercial publishing in North America rather than European educational publishing.

Direct peers

• Federation of European Publishers (FEP): Pan-European trade association representing book publishers across Europe. Directly comparable to EEPG in mission (advocacy and knowledge exchange among European publishers), but broader in scope across trade, academic, and digital publishing, whereas EEPG specializes in the educational publishing niche.
• STM: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers: Global trade association for scholarly and academic publishers. Operates the same membership-driven model (dues-funded, advocacy-led, conference-hosting) as EEPG, but in the scientific/STM publishing vertical. Structurally the closest analogue to EEPG among publishing trade bodies.
• European Booksellers Federation (EBF): European federation of national booksellers' associations. Compares to EEPG as a Brussels-facing pan-European membership federation organizing advocacy, events, and knowledge exchange across the book value chain, though representing retailers rather than publishers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EEPG_org
• Facebookfacebook.com/European-Educational-Publishers-Group-400980807191362
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/eepg
• Instagraminstagram.com/eepg_group

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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