SHI Stein-Hardenberg Institut

The SHI Stein-Hardenberg Institut is a German administrative-science research institute and consultancy based in Berlin. It describes itself as working at the intersection of research, development and consulting for the state and public administration, with a mission to translate academic insight into intuitive, participation- and interaction-oriented practical tools. Its stated aim is to enable public administration to handle change proactively, since modernisation is difficult to imagine without building that capacity. The institute positions itself in the intellectual tradition of its namesakes, Freiherr vom Stein and Fürst von Hardenberg, the Prussian administrative reformers of the 19th century. It argues that their unconventional, practice-oriented thinking is more relevant than ever in the face of digitalisation and broader social change. Its work covers bureaucracy reduction and administrative digitalisation, and it produces studies, expert opinions, workshops, surveys and quick checks. SHI is led by Stephan Löbel, described as Initiator and Geschäftsführer (managing director) and a graduate in administrative science from the University of Potsdam, and by Prof. Dr. Tino Schuppan, Scientific Director and Professor of Public Management at the Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Thomas Off serves as Coordinator for Development & Innovation and is a professor of applied informatics at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik. The institute offers consulting for administrative digitalisation across all project phases, scientific support, and sensitisation workshops for employee groups, and it develops practical tools such as MODULO for process capture, alongside LIMO and PRIMO. It also offers a free MOOC on the fundamentals of the public sector aimed at career changers.

The SHI Stein-Hardenberg Institut is a Berlin-based administrative-science research institute and consultancy. It takes its name from Freiherr vom Stein and Fürst von Hardenberg, the Prussian administrative reformers of the 19th century, and explicitly places its work in their tradition of unconventional, practice-oriented thinking. The institute frames its mission as advancing the modernisation of the state and public administration while keeping practical implementation in view, translating scientific findings into intuitive, participation- and interaction-oriented tools. Its leadership combines academic and administrative-practice backgrounds. Stephan Löbel, who studied administrative science at the University of Potsdam and has research experience in leadership and motivation, acceptance evaluation, competences and institutional arrangements, is the institute's initiator and managing director. Prof. Dr. Tino Schuppan, Professor of Public Management at the Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, serves as Scientific Director; his research focuses on the digitalisation of state and administration and selected public-management topics, and he sits on the editorial boards of Verwaltung & Management, Information Polity and Government Information Quarterly. Thomas Off, Professor of Applied Informatics at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik, coordinates development and innovation. The institute's work spans research, development and consulting. It has produced studies on the development lines of administrative digitalisation in Germany over the past 25 years, including work with Agora Digitale Transformation, and has engaged with policy processes such as the Sonderausschuss Bürokratieabbau in the Brandenburg state parliament. It offers consulting for administrative digitalisation across all project phases, scientific support through expert opinions, workshops, studies, surveys and quick checks, and sensitisation workshops for employee groups preparing for changes such as the introduction of the electronic file (eAkte). It also develops practical tools, most prominently MODULO for process capture, alongside LIMO and PRIMO, and offers a free MOOC introducing career changers to how the public sector works and what that means for shaping digital transformation.

• Institute named after Prussian reformers Freiherr vom Stein and Fürst von Hardenberg

• Study on 25 years of administrative digitalisation in Germany published with Agora Digitale Transformation

• Prof. Dr. Tino Schuppan participates in the Sonderausschuss Bürokratieabbau of the Brandenburg state parliament

• Free MOOC on the fundamentals of the public sector offered

A science-based, practice-oriented institute that translates administrative-science research into intuitive tools and consulting for public-sector modernisation and digitalisation.

• MODULO

  Process-capture tool, described as the institute's best-known tool.

• LIMO

  Practical tool developed by the institute.

• PRIMO

  Practical tool developed by the institute.

• MOOC: Grundlagen öffentlicher Sektor

  Free course introducing career changers to how the public sector works and what that means for shaping digital transformation.

1. 1Startseite - SHI Stein-Hardenberg Institutshi-institut.de
2. 2Wir verstehen Verwaltungshi-institut.de
3. 3Beratung für Verwaltungsdigitalisierungshi-institut.de
4. 4SHI Stein-Hardenberg Institut (Germany) - Wikidatawikidata.org