Purpose

The funding program comprises two pillars: Funding from federal funds (DigitalPakt funding) and funding from state funds (state funding).

The purpose of the DigitalPakt funding is to set up and expand interoperable digital technical infrastructures that are conducive to learning and resilient, as well as teaching and learning infrastructures and the optimization of existing structures.

The purpose of state funding is to ensure the functionality of the IT infrastructures available at schools as a whole so that they can be used reliably by schools for digitally supported teaching and learning. The state funding is in addition to the grants for individual measures from the Digital Pact funding.

Object

Funding is provided for personnel resources, material resources (services, tools/systems) and training costs to establish professional structures for IT administration in schools.

Recipients of funding

Eligible recipients are municipal school authorities of public schools and private providers of state-approved and recognized alternative schools in Bavaria.

Eligible costs

The following are eligible for funding

• Personnel costs for employed IT administrators (federal and state funding)
• Material costs for external IT service providers (federal and state funding)
• Expenses for the further training and qualification of employed IT administrators (federal and state funding)
• Systems, tools and services required for central maintenance and servicing by in-house staff for professional IT administration and maintenance (state funding only)

Eligibility for federal funding requires a direct link to an investment measure from the DigitalPakt Schule 2019 to 2024 (including the supplementary federal-state agreement).

Type and amount

The federal grant is provided as project funding by way of pro rata financing. The federal grants are awarded at a rate of 90% of the eligible expenditure, limited to the federal administration budget and with additional consideration of a partial budget regulation.

The state grant is provided as project funding within the framework of fixed-amount financing. The fixed amount is determined for the respective approval period by annual budgets, limited to the eligible expenditure incurred that is not covered by the funding in the DigitalPakt Schule, as well as a lump sum in accordance with the schools' IT equipment.