From September 11 to 13, 2017, the 14th PhD Workshop on IT, Service, Innovation and Collaboration (WISIC) of the Department of Information Systems at the University of Kassel and the Institute of Information Systems at the University of St.Gallen took place under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister . This workshop is part of the international and structured doctoral education of the Department / Institute of Information Systems of the Universities in Kassel and St. Gallen. The venue of this event alternates semi-annually between the two universities, this 14th workshop was held in Kassel as scheduled. Connected to the 14th WISIC this time was also a visit to the documenta 14 in Kassel, the world's most important series of contemporary art exhibitions held every five years. 

During the workshop, 23 doctoral students presented their respective topics in different formats to a total of 32 participants, depending on their doctoral progress and status: Relevance Pitch, Idea Presentation, Proposal, and Journal Paper Project. The aim of this workshop is toadvance the respective dissertation projectthrough intensive discussions with other doctoral students as well as professors, post-doctoral researchers and post-docs. In addition, new ideas and impulses for one's own dissertation project are to be gained through the feedback gained in this workshop and peer groups are to be established through points of contact to topics of other participants. 

The topics of the WISIC participants covered a wide range of research areas such as crowdsourcing, service engineering, eLearning, collaboration engineering and IT innovation management. Attached are some photo impressions of this three-day event.