



Awarded the German Excellence Award (Deutscher Exzellenzpreis) 2020 in the category "Transformation".
The award is presented annually in cooperation with the Handelsblatt Media Group and the news channel n-tv. It honors outstanding ideas, products and services in the digital transformation. In 2020 more than 400 applications were submitted.
The Digital Transformation of TÜV NORD GROUP
Since 2017, the TÜV NORD Digital Academy has empowered managers and employees to actively shape the digital transformation in terms of culture, organization, and working methods. Our goal was to take the company and its employees along on the path of digital transformation through targeted further education in the form of trainings, workshops, and other measures. We activated and empowered more than 1,000 managers and employees, trained 72 certified Digital Experts in a training program lasting several weeks, and initiated numerous digitalization and innovation projects.
The Digitalization of the Emscher-Lippe Region
The TÜV NORD Digital Academy has launched a workshop series for the Emscher-Lippe region. We helped people who are either at the beginning of their digital journey or are already looking for new digitalization solutions to recognize opportunities and find suitable strategies to implement them in a targeted manner. The workshop series was designed to reach, activate, and empower stakeholders in the Emscher-Lippe region on the subject of digitalization.
Our workshop series consisted of the following topics: Megatrend Digitalization, Business of the Future, Is Data the "New Oil"?, Set up Digital Business Models, Product Development with Prototypes, Networking Evening, Change & Conflict Management and Digital Presenting.
Participation in the workshops did not require any prior knowledge. Accordingly, we enjoyed numerous participants with diverse backgrounds: self-employed people, employees and managing directors from small companies or large corporations.

The series of events and workshops ran smoothly. The cooperation with the TÜV NORD Digital Academy was always on an equal footing and very supportive. We are proud of the high reach of the event series. The positive feedback from the participants as well as the connecting points that came about through the events confirm to me the effectiveness of the collaboration.
- Natalie Schulz | Project Manager Smart Region Emscher-Lippe