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Berlin, October 13, 2025 – For the first time, public and private media companies are working together on the future of digital media infrastructure. With ARD, ZDF, RTL Deutschland, ProSiebenSat.1, and the German Press Agency (dpa), some of the most important German media houses are involved in the launch of the initiative. Together, they will develop the technical and organizational foundations for a sovereign, national media data infrastructure by autumn 2025. A decision will then be made as to whether a national “Media Data Space” will be permanently established from 2026 onwards. The project is coordinated by MISSION KI. The team is supported by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, the co-initiators of the “Beyond Platforms Initiative,” and the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST.

Highly complex, dynamic, and interconnected: Industrial value creation systems are facing profound change shaped by technological innovations, geopolitical shifts, and societal and sustainability expectations. But what does this mean for the industry of tomorrow? Together with twelve companies from the manufacturing industry, the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO designed an industrial value creation system of the future in a future workshop. The results have now been published in the report “The Future of Industrial Value Creation Systems – The Perspective of German Industrial Companies.”

Under the motto “Germany Digital. Innovative. Sovereign. International.”, this year's Digital Summit of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport will take place in Frankfurt am Main on October 21 and 22. More than 1,500 participants from politics, business, science and civil society will be discussing the digital challenges of our time. Fraunhofer ISST will also be there, organizing and moderating a panel on the challenges and solutions for successful cross-border data exchange.