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.

At this year's EGPA 2024 conference, our team presented the Chair's ongoing work on innovation, signaling and digitalization.

Congratulations to Jakob Kühler for winning the PhD Symposium Best Paper Award 2023 at the EGPA 2024 conference in Athens!

The results will be published in the project report with dbb Jugend. Many thanks for the great cooperation!

The dissertation on “Top management support and digitalization of administrative services” has now been published by the university press.

Marienfeldt, Kuhlmann, Kühler and Proeller examine administrative digitalization and innovation priorities at municipal level in the DACH region.

The blog post summarizes key findings on the slow pace of digitalization in municipalities and the federal challenges in the DACH countries.

We are happy that our long-time student assistant Luise Renneke will remain with us as a doctoral student.

As part of the working group for Prospective Sensemaking, Jakob presented the current status of his dissertation on narratives of digitalization.

As part of a cooperation between the University of Potsdam and the National Academy of Governance Ulaanbataar, we welcomed three visiting researchers.

In PAR, Döring, Drathschmidt and Nielsen write about the dynamics of interactions between citizens and street-level bureaucrats.

At the IRSPM conference in Tampere, Finland, a current paper from the DIGILOG project was presented in addition to the dissertation projects.

Prof. Isabella Proeller and Jakob Kühler part in the intensive exchange about the developments of the DIGILOG project at the ZAHW.

In the journal Kommune 21, Jakob Kühler shares his knowledge about the requirements and challenges of a CDO today.

In the journal Information Polity, Kühler, Drathschmidt, and Großmann write about narratives of agile government, bureaucracy and management fashion.

Our students deepened their understanding of the practice of administrative innovation and the potential of open data.

As part of the Digilog project, Jakob Kühler presented current research findings on the players involved in digitalisation to interested practitioners.

In the new PotsdamLab, Master's students presented their first ideas and proposals for improving four administrative processes in the city of Potsdam.

At a recently created panel at the Smart Country Convention, Jakob Kühler presents the challenges facing digitalisation officers in public authorities.

Master's students gain practical insights into resource management at the Berlin Senate Administration, which is facing up to demographic change.

Nicolas Drathschmidt presented the preliminary results of the joint study with the "dbbjugend beamtenbund und tarifunion" on behalf of the chair.

At this year's EGPA23 conference, our team presented the ongoing activities of the chair. The six papers presented are part of individual research and ...

Our courses with SHI on the eGov Campus („Verwaltungsportale“ & „Neues Arbeiten und Führen in digitalisierten Verwaltungsstrukturen“) will continue to...

15 students learned and applied the fundamentals of businnes process management, conducted workshops and presented their results in a teaching project.

Prof. Reichard, Küchler-Stahn and Siegel provide an overview of the accounting curriculum in German academia and universities.

You can find Prof. Dr. Proeller's contributions on Digital Transformation in Government and Digital Divide and E-Participation on Trillo.

Nicolas Drathschmidt writes in Verwaltung & Management about current debates in digitization research.

At the Festival of PD - Consultants to the Public Sector, our students presented future scenarios for the digital administrative work of tomorrow.

For his MA seminar "Resource Management in Public Administration" he was awarded by the Dean of the WiSo Faculty.

Project partners from six countries meet to present the results of the Erasmus+ funded project "Educating for Positive Management" (EDUC+M)....

In cooperation with the youth trade union of the "dbb beamtenbund und tarifunion" we examine how the public service as employer ...

Is the public sector an attractive employer? And what changes need to be made to make it more attractive? These questions have

Proeller, Drathschmidt and Adam summarize the current findings in the focus area of human resources in the form of a narrative literature review.

The UP research team led by Jakob Kühler and Justine Marienfeldt analyzed the local dynamics of digitalization in Bergisch-Gladbach.

At this year's IRSPM annual conference, both members of the chair presented their current research results.

Nicolas Dratschmidt answers questions about digital bureaucracy in public administration and possible negative side effects of digitization.

Master's students were able to exhibit their interview results on administrative resources at a poster conference.

The change agents of the future meet the change agents of the present when students visit the CityLAB Berlin.

In another practical insight, students visited the Berlin Senate Department for Finance.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Reichard receives the "2022 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Administration Pedagogical Scholarship and Research"

On 07.11. the DIGILOG event on administrative digitization in Germany and Switzerland took place in the context of the Berlin Science Week.

Nicolas Drathschmidt was awarded the "Better Regulation Network Award" for his masters's thesis on "How do public employees cope with red tape"..

The masters' theses of Luise Krompholz and Nicolas Drathschmidt were honoured and published as part of the Springer "BestMaster-series".

Prof. Proeller and Prof. Siegel write about "Tools" in Public Management as well as Strategic Management in Public Administration.

Nicolas Drathschmidt and Jakob Kühler presented at the EGPA conference 2022 in Lisbon and reported on their current research projects.

t the end of the process management project, the students presented their process models and process optimization.

Prof. Dr. Proeller, Prof. Dr. Siegel, Caroline Fischer and Nicolas Drathschmidt write about virtual teams and home office in public administration.

Together with Vera Spitzer, Philipp Kuscher presented the eGovCampus project at this year's science dialogue and completely convinced the jury.

Prof. Dr. Isabella Proeller writes in V&M about findings from the evaluation of the "Neues Führungsmodell" for the federal administration (NFB).

The textbook has already been downloaded over 100,000 times and inspired a Japanese research group for a similar book project

Prof. Dr. John Siegel speaks on RBB's Inforadio about the Online Access Act and the digitization of administration in general.

Quickly implementing a bus lane is not so easy in Berlin's bureaucracy. John Siegel explains why in an interview with the rbb why.

We are pleased to welcome Daniela Großmann to the chair.

Prof. Dr. Proeller, Prof. Dr. Siegel and Jan Paul Adam contributed an article on the digitization of public administration to the newly published "Handbook

Matthias Döring and Nicolas Drathschmidt examine mental health and workload in Berlin’s social welfare administration.

The open-access study on crisis resilience in government shows that the transition to home office was less challenging than expected.

We are pleased to welcome Jakob Kühler to the chair.

The textbook on public administration in Germany, published by Kuhlmann, Proeller, Schimanke and Ziekow, has been a great success.

Maria Heckmann received the network award for better regulation and bureaucracy reduction for her master's thesis.

On Jan. 27, 2022, EIPA hosted a digital conference on "Wellbeing at Work," including a presentation by Dr. Caroline Fischer on resilient leadership.

In the online news portal Journalistico, Dr. Caroline Fischer talks about modernization processes and culture change among employees in times of Corona.

We are pleased to welcome Nicolas Drathschmidt to the chair.

The DFG supports a cooperation between the University of Potsdam (Prof. Proeller, Prof. Kuhlmann) and external partners from Vienna and Zürich.

In their article, Caroline Fischer, Moritz Heuberger and Moreen Heine analyze 93 studies that examined the effects of digitalization projects in the public

In her publication, Lisa-Sophie Preller examines the connection between knowledge transfer and socialization in the Berlin trainee program at the higher ad

In "Verwaltung & Management" Fischer, Willems and Van den Bergh published their study, which examined the expectations of citizens regarding new technologi

Findings of a study by the Chair of Public and Nonprofit Management and PwC on hybrid working models in the public sector are available now.

Public administration had to regain time during the pandemic because of the backlog of digitalization. We have looked into the question of whether this dev

The book “Public Administration in Germany”, in which alongside to Prof. Proeller also Sabine Kuhlmann, Dieter Schimanke and Jan Ziekov were involved as ed

First results of a study by the University of Potsdam and PwC on flexible working in the public sector are available.

As part of the initiative "Kleine Fächer: Sichtbar innovativ!" a Citizen Science project on the sustainability of current digitization trends in the public sector is funded.