As part of the ExTEND research project "User-generated service systems for the digital transformation of organizations", Sissy Ernst, Mahei Li, Dr. Christoph Peters and Prof. Jan Marco Leimeister received the Best Paper Award for their paper "User-generated service systems for the digital transformation of organizations" at the Digivation 2018 conference.

The results of the research project, which was funded by the BMBF and supported by PTKA, were jointly presented by co-authors Mahei Li (UKS), Christan Grotherr (UHH) and Martin Schymanietz (FAU) at the second conference of the funding priority "Service Innovation through Digitalization" on 20.03.2018 on the RWTH Aachen Campus. The article will be published in an anthology by Springer Verlag at the end of 2018.