Dr. Heinz Sebiger Award

Annual award for outstanding doctoral theses in the fields of digital professional world, IT security and digital networking.

Datev Stiftung (DS – Datev Foundation) aims to promote the future-oriented and sustainable further development, networking and reception of IT technologies and IT solutions in Germany.

The annual Dr. Heinz Sebiger Award honours outstanding doctoral works in the following fields:

Digital professional world:

• Labour market developments in the tax and accounting profession.
• Job profiles and future skills for a digitalised financial world.
• Big Data and Business Analytics in Finance.
• Digital business models for tax advisors and auditors.
• Labour market developments in the tax and accounting profession.

IT security:

• Cloud Security.
• Cybercrime in the financial services environment.
• Data protection and privacy management.
• Digital Identities.
• Secure Engineering.

Digital networking:

• Digital ecosystems.
• E-government, networking in administration.
• Platform economies.
• Legal forms and cooperation.
• Cooperative enterprises.
• Future fields for cooperatives.