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The German Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)'s strategic update to Germany's national AI strategy, comprising 50+ existing and 20+ new AI measures across eleven action areas, backed by over EUR 1.6B in BMFTR AI investment in the current legislative period.

The update aims to strengthen Germany as aninternationally competitive centre of AI research, development and application. This entails further establishing and expanding AI ecosystems in Germany and Europe to strengthen the application of AI on a broad scale and at the same time to promote the visibility of outstandinginitiatives and structures.

The Budget Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament has approved an investment of € 270 million for the construction of a high-performance computing center at FAU. A new building for the IT infrastructure and a new office building are being constructed, with groundbreaking planned for 2026.

SPARK ("Accelerating Planning and Approval through AI") is a German initiative developed by the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization and financed via the Climate and Transformation Fund. It provides agentic AI tools that accelerate complex planning and approval procedures by analysing application files, checking completeness and plausibility, and preparing decision proposals, while final decisions remain with staff. The tools were released as open source in April 2026.

The Agentic AI Hub is a German initiative by the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization, launched on 9 March 2026, pairing 17 municipalities with ten start-ups across 18 pilot projects covering administrative tasks such as housing benefit and naturalisation. Startups and municipalities were selected from around 400 start-up and almost 200 municipal applications.