Labs and Research Groups Digital Public Services

At the Fraunhofer FOKUS eGovernment Lab, we have been working with more than 60 partners from administration, business and research in a neutral environment since 2004 to drive forward the digitalisation of public administration.

The CertLab supports the certification of IT products on behalf of the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI). The “CC certification procedures” guarantee that software and hardware products that are newly placed on the market are safe and trustworthy.

The Blockchain Workshop bundles the activities of the DPS and SQC business units of Fraunhofer FOKUS around blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. The Blockchain Workshop focuses on digital administration, the energy sector, open data, open science, quality assurance, identity management and the Internet of Things.

The Open User Lab supports public administration and the judiciary in digitalisation projects with methodological competence and scientific expertise in the areas of user-centred design, user experience and digital accessibility. In addition, the Open User Lab supports the transformation of the state and administration in organisational development projects with lab concepts and e-learning formats.

The “Research Data Infrastructure” research group is based at Fraunhofer FOKUS and cooperates closely with the “Research Data Infrastructure” department at TU Berlin, which is headed by Prof Dr Sonja Schimmler. The group researches data infrastructures and data tools for interdisciplinary and data-intensive researchers.

The Weizenbaum Institute's “Digitalisierung und Öffnung der Wissenschaft” (Digitalisation and Opening up Science) working group has been based at Fraunhofer FOKUS since 2017. The group researches the digitalisation and opening up of science and is actively involved in shaping it. Its current focus is on data infrastructures and data tools for interdisciplinary and data-intensive researchers.

Programming without in-depth prior knowledge. In our low code workshop, we test low code technologies for public administration. We want to support employees in applying this innovative approach to the digitalisation of processes and specialist procedures.