Case Study: Deutsche Sporthilfe achieves centralized athlete funding and self-service support with Mendix

Centralizing Resources and Funding for Thousands of Athletes

Deutsche Sporthilfe, the German Sports Aid Foundation, needed to modernize its legacy, manual funding workflows and create a digital self-service experience for more than 4,000 athletes. Working with Mendix and its implementation partner Proventa, the organization set out to replace PDF-based, email-heavy processes with a scalable web platform that could handle complex athlete support needs.

Mendix helped Deutsche Sporthilfe launch “Meine Sporthilfe” as a progressive web app with a modern interface, self-service profile updates, grant applications, funding overviews, document access, and on-demand support. The app went from development to pre-launch testing in less than eight months and reached 80% adoption among the target user base, while also reducing manual data handling and improving automation across connected systems.

Deutsche Sporthilfe

Jens Broermann

Head of IT