About the survey
The 2026 Sanoma Learning European Teacher Survey, with participation from more than 20,000 teachers across 14 countries, provides a broad view of their working context, priorities, and perceived barriers to stronger learning outcomes across primary and secondary education in Europe.
- Countries covered in 2026: Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Poland, Spain, Italy, all with sizeable samples. Additional small samples included from Germany, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg.
- Levels covered: primary, secondary (meaning general secondary, i.e. ISCED 23 and 34 according to UNESCO’s International Standard Classification of Education) and vocational (meaning vocational secondary, i.e. ISCED 25 and 35).
- When referring to multiple countries, the results are weighted in proportion to the number of primary and secondary/ vocational teachers in each country.
- The sample consists mostly, but not exclusively, of teachers contacted by email through local Sanoma companies.
- The survey is designed by Sanoma and conducted regularly since 2021 (also in 2015-2020 with a different methodology). For consistency, whenever 2026 results are compared with earlier results, only Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Italy are included, as results from partly-covered countries differ between years.*
- Data collection has been conducted by GfK, a NIQ Company.
*Except Italy until 2022 as it was not included in the survey yet, and Spain for selected questions about AI, which have not been asked in that country in 2023.
