Berlin (GER), March 2026 - (by Rolf Reinhardt) A silent erosion is sweeping through the offices of major professional associations and chambers in Europe. What was dismissed for years as demographic background noise has solidified into an existential crisis. The latest data from the German Federal Statistical Office is unmistakable: the baby boomer generation is retiring, while the younger cohorts – the highly selective Millennials and Gen Z – are increasingly turning their backs on traditional institutions.

Munich (GER), March 2026 - Artificial intelligence is set to provide optimum learning support for soldiers and increase teaching quality. Fraunhofer researchers have conducted a study to determine which AI functions would be useful in this context and how this technology could be integrated into the existing system.

Stuttgart (GER), February 2026 - As 2025 ended, so did the funding period for the Horizon Europe project, SHIFT-HUB. Over the past three years, Steinbeis Europa Zentrum has united stakeholders from across Europe’s health ecosystem - innovation intermediaries, entrepreneurs, technology providers, healthcare practitioners, policymakers, patients, and citizens - to create a thriving Smart Health Community, driving innovation, fostering collaboration, and accelerating the adoption of transformative technologies and services in healthcare.

Hamburg (GER), October 2025 - The digital education provider Fobizz has secured further customers abroad. Luxembourg is acquiring a national license, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is now making the Fobizz offering available to its lecturers worldwide after a trial phase.

Bonn (GER), June 2025 - The Digital for Development (D4D) Hub is a strategic platform that strengthens digital cooperation between the European Union, its Member States (Team Europe), partner regions across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the EU neighbouring countries. Rooted in the principles of the Global Gateway, the D4D Hub promotes a human-centric approach to digital transformation, ensuring that technology serves people first.

Brussels (BE), February 2025 - In 2024, 33% of EU internet users reported that they had done an online course or used online learning material in the three months prior to the survey. This is a three percentage point (pp) increase compared with 2023 (30%).

Paderborn (GER), November 2024 - ELearning and digital programmes are changing higher education in the long term. Virtual reality (VR) technologies are playing an increasingly important role in this.

Helsinki (FI), August 2024 - The Cyber Citizen Initiative, spanning from 2022 to 2024 and funded by the EU recovery instrument for a three-year period, aims to develop a common, shared model for learning cyber citizen skills across the European Union for all Europeans. Commissioned by the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications, with Aalto University (Finland) as the executor, this initiative aims to bolster cyber citizenship through comprehensive educational programs and initiatives.

Brussels (BE), June 2023 - Young people from across Europe will be able to learn how to shape the EU thanks to the toolkit for schools entitled EU Democracy in Action - Have Your Say with the European Citizens' Initiative, launched 08 June 2023.

Berlin (GER), June 2023 - In recent years, it has become apparent that the development of new technologies is unevenly distributed across European regions. The strong demand generated by the green and digital transition for these new technologies threatens to exacerbate this development even further. To better exploit the strengths and opportunities of different regions, an overview of the capabilities and potentials for the development of green and digital technologies is needed. Where can synergies be identified? Which regions can learn from and support each other? This new study answers these questions by showing which regions are key for the twin transition.

Oslo (NO), May 2023 - In order to build a European OER ecosystem, the ENCORE+ project sought the assessment of experts in the field of OER to map out a probable and positive vision for OER in Europe in 2030.

Cologne (GER), August 2022 - According to new research by the University of Cologne, educational inequality plays a key role in determining how long you work. The study, conducted by Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology researchers Jana Mäcken and Lea Ellwardt, analysed the differences in voluntary and involuntary labour market exit between lower and higher educated workers in 15 European countries.

Neumarkt an der Ybbs (GER), August 2022 - The VACCINE project is a joint initiative of four EU partners addressing the important issue of online learning during a pandemic or similar major societal shock that changes teaching from traditional methods.

Jena (GER), November 2021 - Artificial intelligence will be of great benefit to people and the environment in the future. The possible applications are manifold. The Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, the Institute of Data Science of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and the University of Jena will jointly become part of the excellence network "European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems" (ELLIS), in which diverse theoretical and applied aspects of artificial intelligence will be brought together.