Broadband in schools

Being confident at using digital media is a key skill that enables participation in the information and knowledge society. Deutsche Telekom would like to offer all children the opportunity to acquire this skill, irrespective of their background.

Not only can digital media add variety to everyday school activities, the Internet is the information and education medium of the future. It is only by acquiring confident skills at school age that people can go on to make the most of the technologies in their future lives – at university, at work, and in their free time.

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Telekom@School: Up to 12 million school students in Germany can use digital media in the classroom thanks to free Internet access.

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Telekom@School: Up to 12 million school students in Germany can use digital media in the classroom thanks to free Internet access.

Internet for more than 30,000 schools in Germany
Ever since the year 2000, all 34,000 general education and vocational schools have been connected to the Internet free of charge as part of the Telekom@School project. Today more than 30,000 of these schools have a DSL broadband connection. Telekom@School enables the latest e-learning tools to be used at school and makes it possible to design efficient and forward-looking working and learning processes. The broadband connections also enable data-intensive teaching materials such as audio and video files or animated graphics to be used in lessons. The project reaches up to 12 million schoolchildren across Germany. Deutsche Telekom is therefore making an ongoing contribution to the pioneering development of the German education system.

High-speed Internet in Montenegro
Our subsidiary Crnogorski Telekom in Montenegro provides free high-speed Internet access to the country’s state-run schools. At present this extremely high-performance Internet connection has been installed in 133 primary and secondary schools and special schools. It allows teachers and schoolchildren to use all the possibilities offered by the digital media without limitations during classes.

Award for digital teaching ideas
In cooperation with the Slovakian government, Slovak Telekom has been committed to supporting digital school education since 2002. All primary and secondary schools across the country are equipped with a computer room with broadband Internet access. Slovak Telekom promotes the use of new media in the classroom by holding a competition: the Slovak Telekom Award is conferred for strikingly original ideas and concepts for the use of computers in schools. Ideas may be submitted for primary and secondary schools as well as for special schools for children with disabilities. Schools receive prize money to be used to implement the best ideas. In 2008 the competition was held for the third time. The ideas are collected and archived in a virtual library. More than 350 project proposals can already be viewed in this library.