The Digital Sustainability Group is part of the Institute of Computer Science and was founded in 2014 with the support of the association CH Open at the Institute of Information Systems of the University of Bern. Since 2021, PD Dr. Matthias Stürmer is the head of the Institute of Public Sector Transformation in the Business School at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH). He stays at the Institute for Computer Science of the University of Bern for the “Digital Sustainability” and  “Open Data” lectures, as well as research projects on natural language processing (NLP).