In autumn 2009, the Hamburg-based company Tipp24 SE provided notebooks for all pupils of an eighth-year class at the Ida-Ehre-Gesamtschule (comprehensive school) in Hamburg. The class is the first at the school and in the entire district to own and continually work with notebooks. As part of a joint initiative (“generation@”) between the charity “BürgerStiftung Hamburg” and Tipp24, the pupils were given practical examples during the past school year of the opportunities and risks presented by the Internet.

“After just six months of using the notebooks, the media usage skills of these pupils have improved significantly. They are proud of their modern equipment, as illustrated by their enthusiasm and performance in class,” says Helga Wendland, headmistress of the Ida-Ehre-Gesamtschule. The notebooks are used for a wide variety of subjects, for example to create and show PowerPoint presentations.

As part of their first career orientation project, eighth-year pupils have to do work experience and present their results and impressions using the notebooks. Helga Wendland reports: “We hope to maintain our tradition of cooperating with Tipp24 by allowing the pupils to show to the rest of the school what they experienced during their work experience and to what extent they’ve learned to handle the notebooks in a responsible manner.”

Media usage will be a firm component of an educational profile at the Ida-Ehre-Gesamtschule in the next school year, which will see pupils using their notebooks for research and documentation.

As a Hamburg-based company, Tipp24 is primarily committed to supporting activities in its direct vicinity and provides support mainly for underprivileged children and adolescents. Tipp24 believes the development of media usage skills is of fundamental importance and forms the basis for future career prospects. The generation@ project seeks to raise awareness of the dangers presented by the Internet, but also to identify creative talent and highlight the possibilities for research and more which the Internet offers. The aim is to provide sustainable support for young people during their education. The project is designed in such a way that it can be replicated both in Hamburg and throughout Germany.

An evaluation process has already been conducted. The specially developed educational material for the entire school year is available on request.

About Tipp24 SE: Tipp24 SE (formerly Tipp24 AG) was founded in September 1999 and holds equity interests in a number of companies in Spain, Italy and the UK, which enable participation in lottery-based games via the Internet, especially via the websites www.ventura24.es, www.giochi24.it, www.mylotto24.co.uk and www.tipp24.com. In Germany, Tipp24 Entertainment GmbH operates the games platform www.tipp24games.de. From its foundation to the end of 2008, Tipp24 SE brokered tickets worth over 1.5 billion euros to the state lottery companies – in recent years over 330 million euros annually. Following its successful IPO in 2005 (Prime Standard), the company was admitted to the SDAX index in June 2009 and has been trading as a European public limited company since December 2009.

Press contact:
Tipp24 SE
Andrea Fratini
Head of Media and Public Relations
Phone: +49 40 32 55 33-660
Fax: +49 40 32 55 33-5600
E-Mail: presse@tipp24.de
Internet: www.tipp24-se.de/presse