Our Guideline

First and foremost, administration means administrative competence. This is essential to ensure that the University of Kassel, with its approximately 3,300 employees, 21,300 students and a budget of around 350 million euros, functions smoothly. It ensures that departments and university committees receive the best possible support in implementing their development goals. Research, teaching and knowledge transfer require an administration that operates in complex contexts. At the same time, it must comply with legal requirements and design processes in such a way that they are plannable, feasible, transparent and user-friendly.

Reliable in everyday life - open to new ideas

The administration's specialists and managers act according to this guideline every day. Their aim is to take on a solution-oriented and supportive role within the framework of state legal norms and internal university regulations. In doing so, the available resources and technical possibilities are optimally utilized. Our claim: Administrative processes should meet the requirements of the university as well as the needs of employees, students, academics and external partners in the best possible way. This is why we regularly review processes, structures and technologies for their efficiency and suitability.

Administration in transition: focus on efficiency and user-friendliness

In change projects, we continuously develop and test new solutions in order to strengthen the institutional ability to act and improve user-friendliness. We rely on a participatory approach: specialist expertise is combined with the requirements of the departments in order to shape administrative processes and their digitalization in a future-oriented way.

Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) offer new opportunities to make administrative processes more efficient. The University of Kassel has recognized this opportunity and has already taken the first steps to optimize processes.