Digital contact tracking such as the Corona warning app is an everyday companion in the pandemic. With the Corona Warning App Detector, the Competence Center Public IT (ÖFIT) offers interested citizens a practical discussion of the much-discussed technology and thus enables a better assessment of the effectiveness and the consequences of use of digital everyday companions.

OW2 is an independent, global, open-source software community. The mission of OW2 is to promote the development of open-source enterprise software, generic business applications, cloud computing platforms and foster a vibrant community and business ecosystem. Dr. Yury Glikman, deputy head of the Digital Public Services department at Fraunhofer FOKUS, was reelected as a member of the OW2 Directors Board.

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.