The ITEC Cares Award has been presented once a year by the IT Executive Club eV (ITEC) since 2018. The award ceremony was organized by the Hamburg IT Strategy Days, an industry meeting for the northern German digital economy. The award is aimed at outstanding initiatives and projects in the areas of digitalization and education and thus promotes digital skills, social participation and innovation.
DLC ensures digital participation
The DLC particularly impressed the expert jury made up of representatives from leading IT companies as well as education and digital experts with its contribution to digital participation and securing qualified specialists. With low-threshold learning locations throughout Schleswig-Holstein and open, free online and face-to-face offerings, the DLC has an impact in the Hamburg metropolitan region and beyond.
There are a total of seven partners at the Lübeck learning location who have come together under the motto “Lübeck learns the future”. The technical university focuses on the areas of technology, resources and living environments. With various workshops, seminars and open lab sessions, the university imparts skills in the areas of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, digital technologies and sustainable development.
DCL: Building competence to help shape digital change
The target groups are diverse, the free offer is aimed at students as well as companies, self-employed people and the general public. “The Digital Learning Campus is a living vision of the future at TH Lübeck. The award shows that we are on the right path. Developing ideas together, testing new technologies and giving everyone the chance to be an active part of the digital change,” says the network coordinator of the DLC learning location Lübeck and Vice President of TH Lübeck, Prof. Jochen Abke.
Science and Education Minister Dr. Dorit Stenke says: “Digital skills are a central prerequisite for social participation, economic competitiveness and innovative strength. The Digital Learning Campus creates low-threshold access for skills development and enables people to actively shape digital change. The award shows that this approach is also convincing from the perspective of the digital economy.”
Expansion of the DLC as a practical state campus
Dr. Ronny Röwert, head of the DLC office, sees the award above all as an important recognition of the project work: “It encourages us and all partners to further expand the DLC as a practical state campus for digital further education – together with business, science and civil society.”
The state of Schleswig-Holstein is funding the DLC in the period 2024 to 2029 with 37.5 million euros from the state economic program using ERDF funds from the European Union.