The transformation of the education system to include digital education means far-reaching changes in all phases and areas of education. As part of the DigitalPakt Schule, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has funded investments in digital infrastructure in schools throughout Germany. Supporting these infrastructure tasks underlines the importance that the federal government attaches to this transformation. The BMBF also participated in the development of the “UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER)”, which is based on the United Nations agenda. The BMBF supports this agenda with the “OER Strategy - Open Educational Resources for the Development of Digital Education”, which was developed in consultation with experts. The strategy covers all dimensions of OER and includes both practices for dealing with OER (so-called Open Educational Practices - OEP) as well as the IT architectures and framework conditions required for the implementation of OER. It addresses stakeholders from formal, non-formal and informal education sectors. With the OER strategy, the BMBF is pursuing the goal of integrating digital technology and digital teaching and learning materials into educational practice in a pedagogically meaningful way. OER raise fundamental questions about structures and processes in the provision of educational materials. In order to implement the OER strategy, funding measures should therefore initially create important prerequisites on which the further dissemination steps can build. With the first funding announcement for the “Funding of projects to strengthen, expand and network OER communities”, the BMBF has addressed the support and networking of OER stakeholders and their communities. However, the impetus intended by the OER strategy in digital education and for an overall change in teaching and learning culture is not possible without the close interlinking between school practice and the actors responsible for the technical and organizational foundations as well as the development of the necessary skills. The focus of this second funding announcement is therefore on improving the skills of those bodies that are responsible for the organizational and technical requirements for digital education in school practice, but have so far remained outside the circle of OER stakeholders: the school and school environment stakeholders at the school authorities. This funding announcement is intended to provide support for the necessary skills development and networking.