by Johannes Röder | 17. December 2025 | News
Further education for doers The demands placed on municipalities, public utilities, public administrations, and municipal companies are constantly growing: digitalization, smart cities, new legal frameworks, and technological developments require sound knowledge and...
by Johannes Röder | 16. December 2025 | News
E-world media partner again ZDE will once again be a media partner of E-world energy & water in Essen in 2026. This builds on the successful collaboration of recent years and underscores our role as a center of expertise in the fields of energy, digitalization,...
by Johannes Röder | 2. October 2025 | News
LoRaWAN in the district of Wunsiedel: Digital infrastructure for a smart region Zentrum für Digitale Entwicklung (ZDE) is building a future-oriented digital infrastructure together with the district of Wunsiedel: a comprehensive LoRaWAN network. What is LoRaWAN?...
by Georg Würffel | 21. August 2025 | News
Five Years of the ZDE Academy: Moving into the Future with Sharpened Focus and New Offerings! In October 2020, our ZDE Academy officially launched. The vision: to equip the innovative doers in municipalities and regions with the tools they need for their work. Since...
by Wolfgang Weiss | 6. August 2025 | News
Zentrum für Digitale Entwicklung (ZDE) und Yunex Traffic have entered into a strategic partnership to support cities and municipalities in the digital transformation of their transport systems. Focus: the perfect combination of technological implementation expertise...
by Georg Würffel | 31. July 2025 | News
The Smart City Campus in Westhausen is now listed as a real-world laboratory on the innovation portal of the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV). Zentrum für digitale Entwicklung (ZDE), together with GEO DATA GmbH and KI-P GmbH, received the...
by Georg Würffel | 3. July 2025 | News
Our exclusive MasterClass is aimed specifically at managers at municipal, district and regional level, especially mayors. In an inspiring and constructive environment, you will benefit from the exchange with experienced municipal managers as well as experts from...
by Johannes Röder | 18. June 2025 | News
The time has come, the winners of our Open Call from the PilotInnCities project have been announced! We can look back on a highly exciting pitch phase and diverse, creative applications. The task of the independent jury of experts to make a selection from these...
by Johannes Röder | 13. June 2025 | News
The result is a substantial document: the Smart City Strategy for the city of Hagen comprises 112 pages, the conception and editing of which the ZDE (Center for Urban Development and Planning) was privileged to oversee in recent months, working closely with the city...
by Johannes Röder | 10. June 2025 | News
The first half of 2025 is over – many exciting courses at the ZDE Academy have been successfully completed, and numerous participants have expanded their knowledge of digitalisation, smart infrastructure and funding strategies. Now it’s time to move on: in the...
