The Fraunhofer eGovernment Center combines the expertise of some Fraunhofer Institutes in the areas of research needed to build up broad-based e-government services in Germany and Europe. Each institute has extensive experience in its particular area of technology and related applications, is already working on several applied e-government projects, and is actively involved in the definition of future-oriented, long-term solutions.

The Fraunhofer E-Government Center gives advice to politicians, public administrators and business people on the conception and development of complete, forward-looking and secure eGovernment-solutions and on the realization of service oriented architectures and standards.

The services it offers also include reorganizing business processes, evaluating and advising on technology, developing future-oriented e-government lab scenarios and evolving long-term e‑government and security solutions, carrying out projects and quality management, helping with standardization, transferring know-how, and training. The Fraunhofer E-Government Center is completely independent of any vendor-specific solutions and political movements.