Berlin's youth welfare service has made the switch to digital administration. The introduction of the new IT procedure for youth welfare has now been completed successfully and on schedule. It has been in use throughout the state as part of the ISBJ “Integrierte Software Berliner Jugendhilfe ” (Integrated Software Berlin Youth Welfare) since January 1, 2021. More than 3,000 administrative staff and social workers in Berlin's youth welfare offices and the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family Affairs use it to provide services worth several hundred million euros a year for tens of thousands of children.

Today, the Publications Office of the European Union has awarded a six-year framework contract to a consortium made up of eleven partners to develop a new service: Data.Europa.EU. It will combine the two European data portals, and their efforts towards facilitating open data publication and re-use in Europe. The new portal Data.Europa.EU will be based on the technological data solutions from Fraunhofer FOKUS.

The first supervisory board meeting of DigitalService4Germany GmbH is taking place today. The head of the Competence Center Public IT (ÖFIT), Prof. Dr. Peter Parycek, was appointed as a member of the  board and will support the work of the federally owned corporation in the future.

Today, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) publishes the study “High Value Datasets in Germany”, which Fraunhofer FOKUS prepared together with the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln e.V. and iRights.Lab. The study examines potentially high value datasets and the impact of classifying them as High Value Datasets.