The CDU has developed a program for digital further education together with Masterplan.com, the platform for lifelong learning. The approximately 8-hour course on digitization starts today in the pilot phase and is intended to serve as a model for the concept for the nationwide MILLA (modular interactive lifelong learning for everyone) approved at the party congress in December. For the pilot project, which was initially internal to the party, the CDU and the Bochum-based company produced new video content that supplements the conventional master plan. Several CDU / CSU federal ministers and high-ranking members of parliament classify key issues of digitization in the political and social context. The platform is intended to show how learning content can be communicated online and the advantages of modular e-learning. In addition, it conveys a uniform level of knowledge and trains party officials on political work against the background of digital change: It provides digital training for politicians, so to speak. In the first step, selected CDU members have access to the course. Later this should be available to all around 415,000 party members.
„Our education system must take greater account of the dynamics of digital transformation, since the ever faster development of technologies is accompanied by considerable changes in our society. That is why the CDU wants to pave the way for new, digital educational offers. With the pilot project“ MILLA „we are laying a first Foundation stone and will enable members of our party to gain their own experience with e-learning and its opportunities, „explains CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak. The party wants to define what a meaningful design of a nationwide program can look like. CDU member of the Bundestag and project initiator Thomas Heilmann: „MILLA is to become a kind of Netflix of further training for all citizens, which covers a wide variety of topics. In order to approach this large project with a pilot, the CDU is building on the expertise of Masterplan .com, who have already successfully implemented this objective in business. In our search for suitable partners, the Masterplan.com offer appeared to be the most advanced product currently available on German platforms in the field of e-learning. “
Companies such as the Otto Group or Siemens as well as several universities are currently using the Masterplan.com learning platform. Stefan Peukert, Co-Founder and Co-CEO: „We want to enable people across the board to actively shape digital change and make Germany a digital pioneer. Therefore, Masterplan.com also sees its social responsibility in supporting politicians in their task, Shaping the future of society and the economy in the digital age. “ He and his co-founder, Co-CEO Dr. Daniel Schütt, can well imagine expanding the cooperation to other democratic parties: „As part of the national training strategy, we are happy to provide a nationwide platform for lifelong learning in order to enable rapid digitization of Germany.“
The CDU’s digital transformation course
Around eight hours of video lessons are available to party members. The learning offer conveys the importance of exponential technologies, data, platforms or digital corporate culture for politics.
The following politicians have classified issues:
– Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer: Lifelong learning through e-learning
– Anja Karliczek: Digital further education
– Ursula von der Leyen: Innovative and agile administration
– Peter Altmaier: data, politics and economy
– Jens Spahn: data in the health sector
– Dorothee Bär: New Mindset in Politics
– Paul Ziemiak: Digitization as an opportunity for Germany
– Thomas Heilmann: Germany as Silicon Valley for Blockchain |
Standards as an overarching digital and economic strategy |
Glossary: interface
– Philipp Amthor: Cybersecurity
– Thomas Jarzombek: What does the Internet of Things mean for them
Politics? / Glossary: algorithm
– Carsten Linnemann: Start-ups and medium-sized companies
– Ralph Brinkhaus: Fraction innovation laboratory
– Markus Richter: New culture in administration
– Roy Kühne: Virtual Reality
– Antje Lezius: Platforms – The marketplaces of the 21st century
– Marc Biadacz: Start-up funding: If not now, then when?
– Nadine Schön: Disruptive Technology
– Torbjörn Kartes: 5G
– Florian Nöll: What does the start-up industry expect from politics?
– Maik Beermann: E-Health
– Tankred Schipanski: Artificial Intelligence – What does it do
German politics? | Glossary: Industry 4.0
– Ronja Kemmer: digital administration
– Andreas Steier: Artificial Intelligence
– Hansjörg Durz: Platforms – the marketplaces of the 21st
Century
– Kai Whittaker: Data and Politics: Where we can act and
have to
– Günter Krings: Online Access Act
Via Masterplan.com
Masterplan.com is a training platform for lifelong learning. The experienced entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the platform in 2017. As investors, they won, among others. Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, Trivago co-founder Rolf Schrömgens and the Chancellor of the CODE University of Applied Science Thomas Bachem. In September 2018, Masterplan closed a Series A financing round of 6 million euros. Masterplan.com is headquartered in Bochum and employs around 50 people.