Didacta 2025 Review – Highlights & Key Insights

VS at didacta 2026 – A look back

How do we create learning environments where space, teaching methods and digital strategies work together seamlessly? At didacta 2026 in Cologne, many visitors came to us for inspiration, engaged in discussions with us and were even able to try out a few things for themselves.

These were the key topics we covered in Cologne

Fire protection

Corridors in schools can be used as learning and recreation areas – provided that the furniture used there meets certain requirements: it must leave sufficient space for emergency and escape routes, be robust and non-flammable or at least flame-retardant. We have developed the Prevent series for this purpose.

More about Prevent

All day, if you like

All-day school? It should be much more than mere childcare until 3 or 4 o’clock. Although this idea has become established, rooms and furniture are not always geared up for offering pupils an exciting environment for many different activities. Imagination is needed in older buildings in particular to make the existing rooms fit for a school that, above all else, is a place for learning and living.

A flexible elementary school learning space based on the Churer model, featuring colorful stools arranged in a circle, mobile shelving units, a portable bulletin board, and an interactive display from VS

Chur model

In view of the increasing heterogeneity of learning groups, more and more teachers are orienting themselves towards the spatial principles of the Chur model. This transforms the classroom into a learning landscape. Instead of fixed seating, there are different areas: the input circle for everyone, as well as individual, partner or group work areas for independent learning phases.

More in the interview with Franziska Karg-Röckl

A classroom with furniture by VS: the JUMPER student chair, the asymmetrical Tano desks and a MediaPilon interactive whiteboard

Digital media at school

Interactive systems open up additional options in schools. They can make learning at all grade levels more lively and immediate.

miri – the immersive learning centre

Immersive learning - visitors to didacta were able to try out what this means in our miri learning centre. An impressive experience, as everyone confirmed. miri offers motivating interactive learning opportunities, especially for differentiated lessons.

About miri

Lock-it and Store-it – keep your smartphones safe

Smartphones are part of everyday life, but they often cause disruption in the classroom. With secure storage options, you can create practical solutions for your school that are fair for everyone and bring peace of mind.

Learn more about Lock-it

"Sometimes you just have to do things Quality does not arise at the beginning, but in the process."
Holger Müller, Headmaster

The VS Planning Compass for Schools

New educational concepts require learning environments that go beyond the traditional classroom. At the same time, planning teams are faced with the challenge of renovating, expanding or rebuilding school buildings – often with the question of which room functions and rooms are actually needed.

The VS Planning Compass for Schools helps to maintain an overview. It structures the diversity of school spaces according to three basic room functions – based on what learners and teachers need:

Traditional learning space: Traditional static classroom for input and guided learning in groups, with frontal and cooperative work phases, classically equipped with table/chair combinations and presentation technology.
Flexible learning space: Multifunctional space with variable furniture and zoning, enabling quick changes between different learning and social forms and supporting individual learning processes.
Differentiation: Specialised area for individualised learning in small groups or individual work, enabling targeted support, parallel learning opportunities at different levels and self-directed work.
Learning office: Structured workspace for independent, self-organised learning according to individual task plans. The teacher accompanies the learning processes as a coach.
Marketplace: Open, diversely designed learning and communication zone that promotes informal learning, spontaneous encounters, presentations and project-related work in a stimulating atmosphere.
Specialist room: Specially equipped classroom for subject-specific, practical and experimental learning processes (e.g. natural sciences, art, crafts, music, makerspace).
Library: Quiet knowledge and research room with media collection, reading areas and workstations for concentrated individual and group work, as well as for promoting reading and information literacy.

Canteen: Central meeting and social space that provides catering during the school day and, beyond mealtimes, is increasingly used as a multifunctional learning and living area.
Cafeteria: Informal lounge-style area for breaks, conversations and relaxed get-togethers in a casual atmosphere.
Assembly hall: Multifunctional meeting room for the school community, events, performances, celebrations and gatherings, which creates identity and publicity and can provide space for movemen
Corridor: Access zone with a high quality of stay, equipped, for example, with fire-safe seating, presentation areas and informal learning areas that go beyond the mere function of providing access.
Recreation: Protected retreat for relaxation and recreation, with a cosy atmosphere, calm design and opportunities to switch off.
Supervision: Pedagogically designed space for homework and all-day supervision, extracurricular activities, free play and guided leisure activities.

Management: Work and meeting room for the school management team for management, leadership tasks, confidential discussions and strategic planning with a representative function.
Team area: Collaborative work and recreation room for multi-professional teams – for lesson/activity preparation, exchange, teamwork and as a social anchor point in everyday school life.
Technology & Support: Functional area for technical infrastructure, administration, device management and technical support.
Secretariat: Central contact, information and organisational point for the school for administrative tasks, reception, communication and administrative processes.
Counselling: Protected discussion room for confidential one-on-one conversations, educational counselling, learning development discussions and socio-educational support in a discreet atmosphere.

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Would you like further suggestions?

This issue of our magazine Inspired focuses on the theme of learning and discovery in all-day schooling, featuring inspiring articles and interviews from the field. Contributors include Karin Doberer (LernLandSchaft), Micha Pallesche (Ernst Reuter School) and others.

You are welcome to order it by email: marketing@vs-moebel.de (available in German only)