After reading the name, I thought that it was related to https://www.leo.org/ https://www.leo.org/ - which initially started out (decades ago) as a project of T

After reading the name, I thought that it was related to https://www.leo.org/ https://www.leo.org/ - which initially started out (decades ago) as a project of TUM (Technical University of Munich), but I guess the lion reference is because Hesse also has a lion in its crest, same as Bavaria...