Talk on Data Protection Certifications for Education

On the invitation of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, now BMBFSFJ) and the DLR Project Management Agency (DLR-PT), Eva Späthe and her colleague Jan Torben Helmke from the Chair for Public Law, IT Law, and Environmental Law at Kassel University gave a talk at the conference “OER im Blick“ 2025 in Jena on 14 May. 

In their talk titled “Ein Projekt zur Schaffung von Rechtssicherheit im Bereich Datenschutz für schulische Lernanwendungen und Content-Plattformen,” they discussed data protection certifications for educational information systems and the DIRECTIONS research project. 

The two conference days focused on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) facing pressing educational policies and social challenges. The conference has been part of the Ministry’s OER strategy since July 2022, which focuses on developing and implementing a sustainable OER-promoting ecosystem that includes and recombines technologies, services, and networking opportunities.