Chair of Public & Nonprofit Management

At the Federal Ministry of Finance's 2025 Tax Forum, Prof. Proeller presented key findings from our study “Flexible, digital, well paid?! How the public sector retains its employees” in the panel discussion “Generation Z in tax administration.”

In her presentation, "AI in Local Government: Building, Utilizing, and Assessing Skills," Prof. Proeller presented three key findings: Cooperation with external partners is crucial, smart cities and AI in government are empirically two separate discourses, onflicting requirements often lead to incremental solutions.

We are saying goodbye to Jakob Kühler from the chair and would like to thank him warmly for his outstanding collaboration. We are all the more delighted to continue our successful cooperation in joint research projects.

The report "Model Municipality Digital Migration Management: The Central Register of Foreigners in Practice: Challenges and Recommendations for Action," by Sabine Kuhlmann, Isabella Proeller, Liz Wehmeier, and Jan P. Adam, is now available via open access in the KWI Discourse Series.

As part of the Post-Doc Day at the WiSo Faculty of the University of Potsdam, Dr. Adam was able to provide exciting insights into his current work.

The paper shows, among other things, that the strategic content and structural contextual conditions often do not match in local government digitalization.

In short: Just because pensions and salaries are important incentives for civil servants does not mean that they are fundamentally opposed to change.

In the last few days, we presented our current (doctoral) research projects at the IRSPM hosted by the University of Bologna.

We are very happy to welcome our colleague Tobias Polzer from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien as guest researcher as part of the #DIGILOG project. 

On January 27, our two students presented their work on Processmanagement- thanks to everyone that participated!

The university press of the University of Potsdam has published our study with the dbb.

We congratulate two of our alumni on the publication of their master's theses written at our chair in the Springer series “BestMasters”.

Which incentives attract people to a job in the civil service? How important are home office and the 4-day week for young civil servants?

Our Chair discusses the development and role of public data laboratories in Germany with different stakeholders.