On September 17, 2018, the regular joint meeting of the"ExTEND" project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) took place at the Department of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister) of the University of Kassel. The agenda of this all-day joint meeting included the presentation and discussion of results of the University of Kassel on the implementation and piloting of the "Crowd-Support System", the discussion of contributions for a joint book volume contribution and the joint further procedure of the project. 

The collaborative project "Engineering of Service Systems for User-Generated Services" (funding code 02K14A172 ff, supervision: Projektträger Karlsruhe (PTKA)), funded by the BMBF , includes the following core collaborative partners: University of Hamburg (coordinator), University of Kassel, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Hamburg Port Authority, EWR AG, innosabi, InterFace AG.