Science Dialog is seeking forward-looking ideas for the modernisation of public administration
Transformation needs impetus – modernising public administration needs science. Under this motto, the Future Congress on the State & Administration, the National E-Government Competence Centre and ]init[ AG are launching the Science Dialog research competition.
Researchers from across Europe are invited to submit projects by 30 March 2019 that offer food for thought, potential solutions, tools and methods for the digitalisation of administrative services. The competition aims to highlight concrete opportunities for implementing the Online Access Act (OZG), through which policymakers and public authorities have set themselves the goal of offering all administratively services that can be provided online in digital form by 2022.
Minister of State Dorothee Bär, the Federal Government Commissioner for Digitalisation, is acting as patron of the Science Dialogue: “For the transformation of public administration into a digital authority, we need two things: creative ideas and the courage to change. That is why I am committed to the Science Dialogue, which brings together innovative minds from research with practitioners from the field of public administration.”
Dirk Stocksmeier, initiator of the Science Dialogue, says: “Sustainable innovation arises from the interaction of different disciplines. With the Science Dialogue, we have created a format that serves both as a marketplace for innovative ideas and as a networking platform. I look forward to constructive input for the Federal Government’s digitalisation programme.”