diff --git a/examples/mnist-keras/client/python_env.yaml b/examples/mnist-keras/client/python_env.yaml
index f87d53116..d0ba7b878 100644
--- a/examples/mnist-keras/client/python_env.yaml
+++ b/examples/mnist-keras/client/python_env.yaml
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ build_dependencies:
   - setuptools
   - wheel
 dependencies:
-  - tensorflow==2.16.1
+  - tensorflow>=2.13.1
   - fire==0.3.1
   - fedn
diff --git a/examples/mnist-keras/requirements.txt b/examples/mnist-keras/requirements.txt
index f2826c22f..be46f4d58 100644
--- a/examples/mnist-keras/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/mnist-keras/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-tensorflow==2.16.1
+tensorflow>=2.13.1
 fire==0.3.1
 docker==6.1.1
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