On Wednesday, October 8, 2025, the Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG ) celebrated its 20th anniversary. The event offered a varied program of greetings and birthday wishes, panel discussions, project presentations and insights into current research.

In their speeches, Prof. Dr. Ute Clement, President of the University of Kassel, and Georg Matzner, Head of the IT Standards and Cloud Department at the Hessian Ministry for Digitalization and Innovation, paid tribute to the ITeG's many years of research and its contribution to socially responsible digitalization.

As part of the anniversary celebrations, experts discussed the topic of "Self-determination in the digital society" on the podium. Several project meetings and workshops were also held by the Department of Information Systems:

• The DaWeNa HUB project hosted a coordination meeting and presented current findings from individual projects that support companies and public institutions in the sustainable transformation of data-oriented value creation.
• At the final project meeting of Komp-HI , results were presented on the individual support of learners through the use of AI, in particular to strengthen empathy and digital media skills.
• The Zukunftszentrum Hessen(ZUKIPRO) offered interactive workshops for participants from small and medium-sized enterprises.

The conference ended with a Documenta Walk and culminated in an evening event in the Orangerie.

The ITeG emerged in 2005 from a research project that brought together the specialist fields of communications technology, technology law and business informatics. The decision to establish a permanent structure in order to systematically research the emerging digital world proved to be far-sighted. Today, twelve specialist areas at the ITeG combine research into socially desirable information technology from a socio-technical perspective. With this holistic approach, the ITeG has been shaping the digital future in a socially acceptable, transparent and user-oriented way for two decades.