About us

AcadeMedia is northern Europe’s largest education company, with operations in Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Finland. Our size creates the stability and security required to maintain our position as a key member of the education sector, contributing to the common goal of building a better society in the long term.

Extensive experience in the educational field

Many of our operations have been running for decades. The oldest is Hermods was founded in 1898. Our mission is to contribute to a sustainable society based on education and learning. Each year we educate close to 200,000 children, youth and adults. All of which will receive the conditions required to shape their future and reach their full potential.

The combined experience and expertise of our employees together with our dedicated focus on education gives us a unique opportunity to provide and develop high-quality educational programmes. Discover our preschools, primary schools, upper secondary schools and adult educations.

Change through education

AcadeMedias vision is “To lead the development of future education”.
To succeed, we are constantly working on developing and improving our businesses. This in turn involves rigorous follow-up and control, which we have put in place via The AcadeMedia model (in swedish), our quality management system.

AcadeMedia’s mission is “Change through Education”. We want to contribute to necessary and positive change for individuals and for society as a whole.

AcadeMedia develops and operates unique, industry leading educational activities under various brands across the education ladder. We offer attractive, quality preschools, primary schools, secondary schools and adult education.

Our success is predicated on our offer of a variety of superior pedagogical specialisations with numerous strong brands. In addition, our size allows us to work efficiently with centralised functions such as IT, finance, HR and real estate issues.

Our goal is to help people develop and for everyone to succeed. Although AcadeMedia is northern Europe’s largest education company, our business concept is based on having multiple local education units guided by leaders and teachers who run the schools independently with a great deal of personal commitment and passion.

In order to reach our desired vision for the future and our contribution to society, we focus on four strategic areas in which we aim to become frontrunners: learning, appeal, sustainability and innovative development.

Our strategic areas are closely aligned with the vision for 2030 but are outlined through a more operational approach. This facilitates the implementation of each strategic area in our ongoing development work. As with the concepts in our core values, our target areas are all interdependent. Learn more about our goals and strategies and our 2030 strategic plan (in swedish).

Transparency is a fundamental part of our business. Firstly, because we are financed mainly by public funds and secondly because it strengthens the confidence in us as a public sector company. We seek to be transparent in all aspects of our operations and consistently provide reports on the extent to which we have reached our targets.

The annual quality report (in swedish) provides information on the fulfilment of our educational mission. Our financial reports provide transparency on our finances and on how the funds are allocated. We also provide transparency about the extent to which the fulfilment of our sustainability goals is achieved.

We welcome enquiries from the media and the public and are keen to share information we believe could benefit others. This includes our intranet (employee web) available to all – learn more.

AcadeMedia has had a whistleblowing policy since 2013 to encourage employees and to report suspected irregularities and/or misconduct within the company, either openly or anonymously.

This policy also applies to AcadeMedia’s international operations, currently Germany, Norway and the Netherlands. Whistleblowing can be done in Swedish, English, Norwegian, German and Dutch.

While AcadeMedia always strives to act appropriately, there may be times when AcadeMedia may need to obtain advice and to be made aware of an alleged ethical or legal violation. By doing this, AcadeMedia has the opportunity to properly manage the issue. The reporting process is flexible, and concerns can be reported in several different ways.

AcadeMedia’s whistleblowing policy is located on our open employee intranet.

Our code of conduct is based on the Global Compact, which was established by the United Nations in 1999 to create international principles for businesses on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption issues.

Learn more about our code of conduct.

AcadeMedia was founded in 1996, however, the oldest AcadeMedia business is much older than that. Learn more about our history.

About us

Extensive experience in the educational field

Change through education

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