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# LLMduckt among the winners of the Digital Sovereignty ideas competition

*6 October 2026*

*The Hochschulforum Digitalisierung has selected LLMduckt as one of three winning projects out of 19 submissions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.*

![Three staff members of the Educational Technology unit in front of a board reading “Lehr- und Lerntechnologien”; one holds up a sticker with the LLMduckt logo. Below, the text: “Awarded! LLMduckt – recognised by the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung in the ‘Digital Sovereignty’ ideas competition” (in German) and the LLMduckt logo.](https://flaait.tugraz.at/_app/immutable/assets/llmduckt-ausgezeichnet.DcebysEk.webp)

The Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (HFD) has announced the winners of its Digital Sovereignty ideas competition: out of 19 submissions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, [LLMduckt](https://flaait.tugraz.at/en/services/llmduckt/) from TU Graz was selected as one of three projects — alongside openEduSuite from Philipps-Universität Marburg and GenAI@KIT from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

LLMduckt gives students in TeachCenter courses a key of their own for the programming interface of AI language models; teaching staff choose models on TU Graz servers or at external providers. The jury highlighted that the service transfers well to individual universities, and counted its planned release as open-source software as an additional plus.

As a next step, the HFD intends to bring the winning projects together with partners from its network, so that the ideas can be used at other universities as well.

## Further links

- [Announcement by the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (in German) · hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de](https://hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de/ideenwettbewerb-digitale-souveraenitaet-preistraeger-stehen-fest/)

## Related services

- [LLMduckt](https://flaait.tugraz.at/en/services/llmduckt/)