On Friday, 22 January 2021, the Bavarian district of Altötting became one of the first in Europe to introduce a digital vaccination certificate. The technology behind the digital proof of vaccination is provided by UBIRCH. Together with our partner govdigital, we enable a secure, privacy-friendly, digital infrastructure to make a person’s vaccination status digitally verifiable. govdigital eG is a cooperative of 15 IT service providers of the federal states and municipalities as well as the Bundesdruckerei, offering highly secure and data protection-friendly storage. The launch was accompanied by broad media coverage throughout Germany – both in online and print media as well as on TV.