EGOV2025 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2025
The conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 WG in Information Systems in Public Administration
August 31 – September 4, 2025
University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria
The IFIP EGOV 2025 is a scientific conference that is dedicated to the broader areas of e-Government and e-Democracy, which include facets like Digital Government, e-Participation, Open Government, Smart Government, AI government, GovTech, Algoritmic Governance, and related topics to digitalization and government.
The conference represents the merge of the IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM).
Several different types of submissions can be made, such as completed research, but also ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, workshops. The conference organizes a PhD Colloquium and offers a limited number of PhD bursaries. The day prior to the main conference, there is also a Junior Faculty School for PhD students, postdocs, and junior faculty.
We invite individuals from academic and applied backgrounds as well as from business, public authorities, NGOs, NPOs and education institutions to submit their research papers, reflections, posters as well as practitioner papers, panel or workshop proposals to the topics addressed in the tracks.
The IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2025 conference will be hosted in Austria, in the Alpine Republic of Europe, the University for Continuing Education Krems. As the only public university for continuing education within the German-speaking world, the University for Continuing Education Krems sets the standards for lifelong learning. In 1995, it opened its doors to students and was first created as a competence center for scientific specialization that focused on the pressing challenges at the time designing study courses accordingly. The University for Continuing Education Krems has more than 8.000 students in the winter semester 2023/24 and employs more than 700 staff. In addition to all this history, the university also brings a lot of innovation to its vibrant student city.
As part of the conference, the University for Continuing Education Krems is organizing the PhD Colloquium on 31 August and the Junior Faculty School on 1 September at Göttweig Abbey. The PhD Colloquium is a full-day event open to admitted students only and offers a limited number of PhD scholarships. Likewise, the Junior Faculty School is aimed at sharing experiences to promote the careers of young researchers interested in digitalization and government.