New digital pact for schools: five billion euros for the future!

New digital pact for schools: five billion euros for the future!

BUND and countries have taken a crucial step in digital education: The “Digital Pact School” continues! This was confirmed by the Berlin education senator Katharina Günther-Wünsch (CDU) in an interview with RBB24. The agreement stipulates that the schools can expect an additional five billion euros to be used for laptops and digital plates. The first digital pact had expired in May, and the new plans now offer the opportunity to modernize and digitize schools in Germany.

The financing of the new package is divided between the federal government and the countries, which means that both sides will bear the costs together. According to Günther-Wünsch, there will be a key point paper on Friday in the Conference of Education Ministers, which serves as the basis for the future steps. She emphasized that it was important to create a framework and administrative agreement as soon as possible so that the projects can be seamlessly taken over by a future federal government. This is a significant progress on the way to more digital equipment, from which Berlin can also benefit, such as rbb24 reported.

The agreed funds could help overcome the modernization backlog described in many schools. The Minister of Education Cem Özdemir (Greens) and the Education Minister of the 16 federal states have agreed on a model that also takes into account ongoing and planned investments by the federal states. This is supported by the expectations that Günther-Wünsch expressed: "It is right what we are doing now." This school development shows that the federal government and the federal states are determined to promote digital transformation to ensure future -oriented training for the students, as Presseportal