Projects Institute Public Sector Transformation

We initiate, plan and carry out various types of research and development projects. In all our professional undertakings, we seek to achieve a healthy variety with regard to scope, disciplines involved, duration and approach. Our projects have one thing in common: professional management and a motivated team, committed to providing the parties involved with new knowledge and adding value.

Strategic projects of the institute

Digital Single Market-Infrastruktur-Observatorium

Die Realisierung eines digitalen Binnenmarktes (Digital Single Market) war eine der zehn Prioritäten der Kommission Juncker. Das vorliegende Observatorium geht der Frage nach, welchen Impact die Aktivitäten...
Research unit Public Sector Innovation

Head of project Jérôme Brugger
- See research project
Digitalisierungsmonitor 2019

Der «Digitalisierungsmonitor 2019» erfasst vor den Eidgenössischen Wahlen die digitalen Profile der Kandidaten. Er setzt die Digitalisierung auf die Wahlkampfagenda und sensibilisiert für dieses Zukunftsthema.
Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Head of project Daniel Schwarz
- See research project

Research reports and studies

2020

Estermann, B., Gschwend, A., Haller, S., Parrales E. (2020): Basisregister und kontrollierte Vokabulare als Wegbereiter für Linked Open Data in der Schweiz. Innovationsprojekt von E-Government Schweiz im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Bundesarchivs. Berner Fachhochschule, Institut Public Sector Transformation.

2019

Brugger, Jérôme und Frecè, Jan: BildungsID Kanton Bern – Studienschlussbericht, 2019.

Projects of the Institute Public Sector Transformation

eGov Monitoring
The project eGov Monitoring promotes the constant knowledge extension and dissemination in areas of E-Government and IT for business and administration.

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Public Sector Innovation

Head of project Annique Lombard
- See research project
Innovation Booster Swiss Smart Cities
The Innovation Booster Swiss Smart Cities promotes radical solution ideas that create public value for smart cities and regions throughout Switzerland.
Innovation needs courage and a spirit of discovery!

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Data and Infrastructure

Head of project Stephan Haller
- See research project
Democracy Lab Basel
With ten concrete reform approaches addressing specific challenges, the project "Democracy Lab Basel" (Smart Regio Basel/BFH) aims to contribute to the modernization of Switzerland's democratic structures...

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Digital Democracy

Head of project Daniel Schwarz
- See research project
Sufficency and Politics
Sufficiency is one of the three pillars of sustainable development. In this project, we ask ourselves where measures are most necessary and effective, how they could be designed and what the chances of...

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Digital Democracy

Head of project Flurina Wäspi
- See research project
Digitization Monitor 2023
The Digitization Monitor 2023 records and visualizes the digital policy profiles of the candidates before the federal elections with the aim of giving more attention to issues of digital policy and digital...

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Digital Democracy

Head of project Daniel Schwarz
- See research project
Support for the integration of FOEN Linked Data
As part of this project, various Open Government Datasets of the Federal Office for the Environment will be integrated into the federal Linked Data platform LINDAS in order to be available to a wider public...

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Data and Infrastructure

Head of project Benedikt Simon Hitz
- See research project
Pretraining of a Swiss Long Legal BERT Model
We will scrape legal text in German, French and Italian to pretrain a Swiss Long Legal BERT model capable of performing NLP tasks better in the Swiss legal domain.

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Digital Sustainability Lab

Head of project Joël Niklaus
- See research project
Versioning of base registers with the help of Linked Data
Within the framework of this project, basic registers such as the municipal directory and the state calendar are to be made available as a versioned data set via LINDAS using RDF/linked data.

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Data and Infrastructure

Head of project Benedikt Simon Hitz
- See research project
InoVille 4.0: Smart Models for Municipial Strategy and Governance Processes
"InoVille 4.0" develops the models for a smart government platform, which enables municipalities to use smart government strategies and intelligent management processes for increased public value and to act...

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Data and Infrastructure

Head of project Stephan Haller
- See research project
Participatory smartvote Lenzburg
Through a participatory process (online platform and workshops), citizens of Lenzburg have the opportunity to help shape the smartvote questionnaire for the elections in September and November 2021.

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Digital Democracy

Head of project Jan Fivaz
- See research project
Trusted data spaces taking digital self-determination into account
The BFH study complements preliminary work of the "Digital Self-Determination"-network with the modeling and description of trustworthy data spaces. The study findings will flow into the OFCOM report on the...

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Digital Democracy

Head of project Daniel Schwarz
- See research project
Series of events "Shaping a Sustainable Digital World" Conference and Workshops
Until March 2021, follow-up workshops to the event "Shaping a Sustainable Digital World" of 8.5.2020 took place. All events were dedicated to the development of project ideas in the field of digitalisation...

Institute Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Research unit Public Sector Innovation

Head of project Flurina Wäspi
- See research project

Projects

Strategic projects of the institute

Digital Single Market-Infrastruktur-Observatorium

Digitalisierungsmonitor 2019

Digital Single Market-Infrastruktur-Observatorium

Digitalisierungsmonitor 2019

Research reports and studies

2020

2019

Projects of the Institute Public Sector Transformation

eGov Monitoring

Innovation Booster Swiss Smart Cities

Democracy Lab Basel

Sufficency and Politics

Digitization Monitor 2023

Support for the integration of FOEN Linked Data

Pretraining of a Swiss Long Legal BERT Model

Versioning of base registers with the help of Linked Data

InoVille 4.0: Smart Models for Municipial Strategy and Governance Processes

Participatory smartvote Lenzburg

Trusted data spaces taking digital self-determination into account

Series of events "Shaping a Sustainable Digital World" Conference and Workshops