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Professor Mergel contributes open access book chapter to the Fraunhofer Fokus' competence center Öffentliche IT

The second workshop of the "Lehre hoch n" program, June 4-6, 2018, focused on the embeddedness of innovative teaching approaches in the larger context of the University. Program components included a stakeholder analysis and a change management approach.

As part of the University of Speyer's inaugural meeting of the WITI program, Professor Mergel presented a keynote address on open innovation and open public administration.

"Digital Transformation in Germany and Estonia - A collaborative learning experience between Tallinn University of Technology and the University of Konstanz".

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 8-10pm, Cafe pano, Konstanz

The Toepfer foundation and the Federal Ministry of Research and Education are funding the program Lehre hoch n in order to improve organizational change management and innovative teaching approaches in higher education. Professor Mergel's project focuses on the digital competencies in public administration teaching. The research group will create open educational resources to move research knowledge faster into an open access platform in order to transfer knowledge between research, teaching,…

As part of a special issue on "Digital government an public management", Professor Mergel's article "Open innovation in the public sector: drivers and barriers for the adoption of Challenge.gov" was published in Public Management Review.

On February 13, 2018 Professor Mergel presented her research findings on big data and data science approaches in the public sector at the Foresight Center, the Parliament of Estonia's Think Tank, Estonia, Tallinn.