Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance (Pioneer) Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

Overview

Within a context where in the Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance (Pioneer) programme offered at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) becomes increasingly important for the modernisation and innovation of the public sector, the sector itself needs experts

• who are able to translate technological expertise into efficiency, effectiveness, performance and user needs

• who are able to take into account the organisational, cultural, social and structural peculiarities of the public sector when implementing new technologies

As a result, interdisciplinary education has become a necessity. This is what PIONEER is about.

Key facts

What the Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance (Pioneer) programme at Tallinn University of Technology has to offer you:

• An advanced understanding of and insights into the disciplinary knowledge, specific to public management, public administration, information systems and eGovernance.

• Specialised knowledge in public administration processes, and the necessary skills to dissect organisational processes to its basic units in order to improve organisational efficiency and effectiveness.

• The necessary academic skills to build rapid proof of concepts, to reflect on approaches, to question assumptions and to assess ideas.

• The necessary competencies to define and implement new methods and techniques for the benefit of the public sector. With profound knowledge of the public sector you are able to implement new techniques successfully.

• A higher level comprehension of how ICT and information sciences can be used in order to innovate proactively the public sector in a changing society.

• A profound level of methodological and scientific research skills in order to start a PhD in one of these domains.

• Excellent communication and project management skills to work in different cultural environments within different parts of the public sector.