We wanted to give organisations and employees in the education sector an understanding of data protection and get them excited about the topic. The aim was to offer comprehensive basic training on data protection on the one hand and to use specific practical examples to show how data protection can be considered and integrated in everyday working life and especially in the implementation of projects on the other. Many data protection training courses on the market are characterised by legal interpretations. There is little comprehensive information that is both simple and practical. Many people tend to see data protection as an obstacle (too complicated, only prohibitions). This is often due to ignorance and uncertainty. We therefore wanted to offer these people a simple introduction and, by providing templates, checklists and documents, help them to put what they have learnt into practice and implement the data protection requirements accordingly. However, it was also important to convey the topic in an easy-to-understand, practical way.
As part of its prevention workshops on the topic of digital media, the Media Competence Team has been working on data protection since 2018. Data protection is an accompanying and important topic in this area. We have therefore been actively raising awareness of data protection issues since 2018. During this time, we have observed that there is little awareness of data protection in the education sector in particular and that data protection still plays a subordinate role in many organisations, even though sensitive data is often processed here. In addition, through the partnerships within the framework of ERAMUS+ projects, we were able to recognise that the importance of data protection (and the GDPR) also has a different weighting and significance in the European countries (e.g. in Greece). In adult education in particular, data protection regulations and the knowledge of why the topic of data protection in adult education is so fundamentally important. It was important to us to make our knowledge and experience in this area available to individual target groups in order to raise awareness of this topic among more people and organisations in the long term.