Qualifica Digitalis

• Duration: 2020 – 2022
• Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter

Team: Dr. Stefan Welling, Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter, Sabrina Schlachter

Partner: Fraunhofer Fokus, FÖV

https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/raggeber: IT Planning Council

The digitalization of public administration is changing structures, processes and work culture. Employees must be prepared for these changes and their consequences through appropriate training and further education. This presents public administration employers and the associated training providers with the challenge of reacting actively and productively to the changes and helping to shape them.

For this reason, the IT Planning Council has launched the “Qualifica Digitalis” project to identify and systematize the necessary skills for employees in modern public administration and to develop strategies for the qualification of the public sector and provide recommendations for action. This is to be done on the basis of theoretical, practical and empirical findings. The scientific support of Qualifica Digitalis is a joint project between the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS; project management), the German Research Institute for Public Administration in Speyer (FÖV Speyer) and ifib.

To achieve the project objectives, a meta-study will first be conducted on changing working methods and cultures, digital skills and learning and teaching methods in public administration. Once the results have been validated and processed, expert interviews will take place. Domain workshops will then be held with the general administration, municipal social administration, IT management/IT strategy, tax administration, ministerial administration and judicial administration. These will be accompanied by a quantitative survey. The survey results will be compiled at the end of the project and used to develop strategies and recommendations for the qualification of employees.