Technological Sovereignty Council’s work begins

Technological Sovereignty Council’s work begins

Technological Sovereignty Council's Work Begins

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This week the kick-off meeting of the Council for Technological Sovereignty founded by the German Federal Ministry of Research took place. Eleven experts from science, business, and society have got the assignment to in the coming months develop recommendations for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to strengthen the technological sovereignty of Germany and the European Union in key areas of technology. Anja Karliczek, Federal Minister for Education and Research, explains in the following way:

“I work to ensure that Germany and the European Union remain internationally competitive through a strong research and innovation policy and that we set standards worldwide with our engineering and development skills in key technological areas, such as hydrogen or quantum technologies.”

This should be seen in the light of that key technologies are an important basis for value creation and prosperity. They enable innovations, secure competitiveness, and employment and make decisive contributions to overcoming global challenges. Source

In the same spirit, school digitization speeding up in Germany in the so-called DigitalPact School. New figures show that the sum of the disbursed funds has almost doubled since the beginning of 2021 compared to the previous six months. However, so far, only a third of the 6.5 billion euros that the federal government has made available have either been used or at least planned. “That is not satisfactory after two years”, according to Anja Karliczek, Federal Minister for Education and Research. Source


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