Digital4Business featured at CoDEMO 5.0 in Berlin
On 16 June 2025, Digital4Business (D4B) joined a special edition of the CoDEMO 5.0 Innovation Event in Berlin to spotlight how Europe-wide collaboration is turning digital transformation into real, scalable learning opportunities.
One message echoed throughout the day: Europe’s co-funded networks are not merely discussing transformation – they are actively building it.
What is CoDEMO?
CoDEMO (Co-Creative Decision-Makers for 5.0 Organisations) is an Erasmus+ Alliance that unites higher-education institutions, research labs, and industry partners across Europe. Its mission is to co-design education and training that enable the 5.0 transition.
Through EU co-funding and a broad network of committed partners, CoDEMO supports new ways of teaching skills that place people, collaboration, and sustainability at the heart of digital transformation.
Digital4Business on stage – a resonant message
As an invited guest, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Julia von Thienen from the German University of Digital Science represented Digital4Business (D4B) at the event. Her presentation centred on digital upskilling and academic community building in fully online education, introducing the D4B initiative to the wider CoDEMO audience.
She highlighted the power of Europe-wide collaboration within D4B, where academic and industry partners join forces to design and deliver a digital-skills programme that no single institution could offer alone.
This collaboration has yielded a 60 ECTS, fully online Master’s in Advanced Digital Technologies, specifically crafted to meet the fast-evolving demands of Europe’s workforce.
The audience – including students, industry representatives, and academic partners – strongly resonated with the D4B vision, recognising the urgent need for digital upskilling across sectors.
Several partners expressed immediate interest, and follow-up discussions have already taken place, sustaining the momentum ignited in Berlin.
A shared vision for Europe’s digital future
Partners at the event were unanimous: the challenges of digital education and workforce upskilling cannot be solved by individual organisations alone.
What is needed is a genuinely collaborative approach – agile networks that bring together industry and academia to co-create forward-looking learning opportunities.
By developing programmes for both recent graduates and lifelong learners, these partnerships can not only enhance Europe’s digital resilience, but also help foster innovation and contribute to a globally connected learning community.
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