Today, Lower Saxony's Minister of Education Grant Hendrik Tonne presented Salzgitter's Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel with the corresponding approval notices from the DigitalPakt Schule worth around 390,000 euros. Tablet computers with keyboard, cover, MDM and charger will be purchased.

Minister of Education Tonne says: "Learning with digital media and via digital media is both an opportunity and a challenge. I am delighted that Salzgitter is facing up to the change together with the schools and actively shaping the transformation. Good, coordinated cooperation between school authorities and schools, such as here in Salzgitter, is always the basis for the successful further development of the school landscape. I hope that the city and the schools will continue to work together successfully in the interests of the pupils in the future."

"Certainly not all questions and all framework conditions have been clarified yet, but the tablets that are now to be procured will be given to pupils who have not yet had any digital tools at home. I am committed to equal educational conditions for all children, which is why it is so important not to waste any more time and to fill the Digital Pact for Schools with life," added Mayor Klingebiel.

Grants City of Salzgitter:

1. Fredenberg vocational schools € 21,000.00
2. FöS-LE Pestalozzi 11,900.00 €
3. Gottfried-Linke secondary school € 24,500.00
4. Primary and secondary school Schule Am Gutspark € 11,900.00
5. Elementary school Altstadtschule € 14,000.00
6. Ostertal elementary school € 24,500.00
7. Am See elementary school € 16,800.00
8. Elementary school am Sonnenberg € 18,200.00
9. Elementary school on Wiesenstraße € 16,800.00
10. Dürerring elementary school € 18,900.00
11. Hallendorf elementary school € 12,600.00
12. Kranichdamm elementary school with FöS SR € 24,500.00
13. Lichtenberg elementary school € 17,500.00
14. Ringelheim elementary school € 5,600.00
15. Steterburg elementary school € 15,400.00
16. Fredenberg grammar school € 24,500.00
17. Salzgitter-Bad grammar school € 14,000.00
18. Salzgitter-Thiede secondary school € 16,800.00
19. IGS Salzgitter € 4,900.00
20. Ludwig-Erhard-Schule, vocational schools Salzg. € 24,500.00
21. Gebhardshagen secondary school € 24,500.00
22. Salzgitter-Bad secondary school € 24,500.00
    

The state of Lower Saxony is receiving €470 million from the federal government via the DigitalPakt Schule. On top of this, the state is providing an increase of around 52 million euros. This means that over €522 million will be available to improve the IT education infrastructure at Lower Saxony's schools by 2024. Eligible to apply for funding from the DigitalPakt Schule are both providers of municipal public general education and vocational schools as well as providers of private general education and vocational schools entitled to financial aid and providers of schools that are subject to the provisions of the Nursing Professions Act and the Nursing Professions Training Financing Ordinance. The approved funding volume in Lower Saxony currently totals around 26 million euros.