For a group born a hundred years ago with a paper school register, the most recent step takes it far from Parma and beyond borders. Spaggiari, a platform company of Ambienta and one of the main operators in the EdTech market, has acquired E-schooling dream shaper (Esds), a group active in developing software for managing educational institutions and learning in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. It is the first international add-on made by the Emilia-based Spaggiari and the fourth since Ambienta entered the capital: an operation that effectively marks the start of the internationalization phase announced by the group and strengthens its positioning among the main European software platforms for education.
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Founded in 2007, E-Schooling brings three solutions to Spaggiari: the management platforms for schools eSchooling and iScholar, plus DreamShaper, dedicated to project-based learning, a teaching method built on projects. Overall, the group’s products serve over 3,000 schools and 1.5 million students. For Spaggiari, which collaborates with more than 4,000 institutions and reaches over 4.5 million users daily, the acquisition adds new markets, expertise in artificial intelligence, and a teaching component complementary to administrative software. The founders and management of Esds will reinvest alongside Ambienta and remain involved in the next growth phase.
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«This acquisition represents an important step in the development of Spaggiari’s platform,» notes Giancarlo Beraudo, partner at Ambienta, emphasizing how the group, after consolidating Italian leadership, is now «well positioned to expand its presence in international markets.» The industrial logic is to build an integrated offer capable of following the entire educational path, from data and administrative process management to teaching and guidance. A strategy that Spaggiari outlined in July, on its centenary, indicating organic growth, AI, and targeted acquisitions as the three levers of the new phase.
The Esds dossier also adds an environmental dimension, consistent with Ambienta’s strategy. The digitization of school processes reduces the use of paper in a sector still highly material-intensive: according to the asset manager’s estimates, primary and secondary schools account for up to 10% of European graphic paper use, about 1.2 million tons per year. But the core of the operation remains industrial. «Esds is highly complementary to Spaggiari,» explains CEO Nicola de Cesare: «DreamShaper expands the offering on the learning front, while eSchooling and iScholar open access to the Iberian and Latin American markets.» It is the first test outside Italy for a group that, after a century of Italian schooling, now tries to transform its national scale into a European platform.
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