From September 23 to 27, 2018, the 16th Doctoral Workshop on IT, Service, Innovation and Collaboration (WISIC) of the Department of Information Systems of the University of Kassel and the Institute of Information Systems of 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 training of the departments / institutes of Information Systems of the Universities of Kassel and St. Gallen. This event takes place every six months and this time the venue was the Archabbey of St. Ottilien near Munich.

Over the course of the doctoral workshop, 17 doctoral candidates from both universities presented their respective topics in different formats, depending on their doctoral progress and status: Relevance Pitch, Idea Presentation, Proposal and Journal Paper Project. The aim of this workshop is to advance the respective dissertation project through intensive discussions with other doctoral candidates as well as professors, habilitation candidates and post-docs. In addition, the feedback gained in this workshop is intended to provide new ideas and impetus for your own dissertation project and to build peer groups through links to the topics of other participants.

The topics of the WISIC participants once again covered a wide range of research areas at the Chair. As is now a good tradition, joint social activities also took place. Here are some photo impressions of this four-day event.