Lokalprojekte

What Lokalprojekte does

Lokalprojekte is a German non-profit social enterprise (LP - Lokalprojekte gemeinnützige GmbH, registered in Ulm, operational headquarters in Frankfurt am Main) founded in 2021 that operates a project-based cross-sector staffing model — Arbeitnehmerüberlassung Plus — to deploy external professionals ("Macher:innen") from the private sector and civil society into German municipal administrations for typically six-month transformation projects. The organization addresses a structural mismatch: municipalities face chronic staff shortages and lack specialized digital and organizational expertise, while skilled professionals outside the public sector lack accessible pathways to contribute to state modernization. Lokalprojekte acts as the legal employer, handling recruitment, matching, onboarding, and project coaching, while the Macher:in is embedded in the host municipality as operational cost (Sachkosten) without consuming a permanent headcount slot. Compensation is aligned to TVöD E11 Level 4 (approximately €5,500 gross monthly).

Name

Lokalprojekte

Legal name

LP - Lokalprojekte gemeinnützige GmbH

Website

https://lokalprojekte.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lokalprojekte is a German non-profit social enterprise that places private-sector and civil-society professionals ("Macher:innen") into municipal administrations on six-month projects to drive local digital and organizational transformation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Administration Modernization Services

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Agent of Record (AOR) / Contractor Engagement Services (BPACAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Digital Workplace & Collaboration Consulting (BPAHAEAH)

Keywords

• Municipal staffing services
• Public administration consulting
• Employee leasing
• Public sector modernization
• Administrative digitalization

Headquarters

HQ city

Hatten

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Projektbezogene Arbeitnehmerüberlassung (Employee Leasing): Lokalprojekte acts as an employer and leases 'Macher:innen' (external professionals) to municipal administrations for defined project periods (typically 6 months). Municipalities pay for the staffing service, which is structured as 'Arbeitnehmerüberlassung Plus' — combining recruitment, matching, and project coaching. Macher:innen are employed by Lokalprojekte and deployed to the municipality, where they are embedded as Sachkosten (operational costs) without requiring a new permanent position in the staffing plan.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Lokalprojekte matches external professionals ('Macher:innen') from the private sector and civil society with German municipal administrations to deliver defined digital transformation, integration, and modernization projects on a temporary basis. The engagement is structured as 'Arbeitnehmerüberlassung Plus' — combining recruitment, matching, project coaching, and an online learning program — enabling municipalities to access implementation capacity without creating permanent positions or expanding their staffing plans.

Product overview

Lokalprojekte is a non-profit social enterprise offering three core service products: Lokalprojekt (temporary cross-sector staffing for public administration via Arbeitnehmerüberlassung), Changemaker-Programm (cohort-based change management training for public servants), and Behörden-Sprint (Design Sprint methodology for public agencies). These core products are complemented by specialized programs including Integrationsmacher:innen/Integrationsmacher:innen 2.0 (digital solutions for integration work), Sozial & Digital (OZG/digitalization support), and interkommunal.digital.wirken (inter-municipal digital collaboration and AI deployment). The portfolio enables public administration to access external implementation capacity and expertise without creating permanent positions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Lokalprojekt: Core product offering matching external professionals with municipal administrations for project-based work
• Changemaker-Programm
• Behörden-Sprint
• Integrationsmacher:innen
• Integrationsmacher:innen 2.0
• Sozial & Digital
• interkommunal.digital.wirken

Products and services

• Lokalprojekt Temporary staffing service that matches professionals from the private sector and non-profit organizations with public administration teams to implement specific projects using temporary employment arrangements (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung Plus). Targets German municipal administrations facing staffing-plan or skills gaps.
• Changemaker-Programm Cohort-based training program that brings public administration employees together with qualified trainers to learn methods and tools for more effective change management.
• Behörden-Sprint Design Sprint variant specifically developed for public administration, enabling sprints to be moderated within agencies for greater impact in shorter timeframes.
• Integrationsmacher:innen Program in which external experts from business or civil society enter public administration for several months to implement digital integration projects across 5 German municipalities.
• Integrationsmacher:innen 2.0 Second iteration of the integration program, bringing external experts into municipalities to develop AI-powered digital solutions for integration work, with projects in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, and Altmarkkreis Salzwedel.
• Sozial & Digital Program in which 3 counties from Thuringia and Hessen work on digital transformation at the intersection of social services and digitalization, navigating OZG implementation challenges.
• interkommunal.digital.wirken Program focused on inter-municipal collaboration for digital transformation and AI deployment, with projects including AI server infrastructure, AI compass e-learning, and inter-municipal IT center development.

Quantifiable outcome

• Projects typically deliver visible results within a few months of initiation.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Hertie School — Centre for Digital GovernanceflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 July 2026Lokalprojekte is a partner in the three-year research project 'Plattform #Staatsmodernisierung' at the Hertie School, funded by the Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung (BMDS) with approximately €3 million. Lokalprojekte contributes municipal practice experience to the research platform, which will accompany and evaluate the federal and federal-state modernization agenda.
• Helmut-Schmidt-Universität HamburgcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg collaborates with Lokalprojekte through the dtec.bw research program 'smart&agil', under which the 'Sozial & Digital' and 'interkommunal.digital.wirken' programs were conducted. Academic research accompanies municipal digital transformation projects, providing empirical grounding.
• Charta der VielfaltminorOthersLokalprojekte has signed the Charta der Vielfalt (Charter of Diversity), committing the organization to promoting diversity and equal opportunity regardless of gender, age, origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or family situation. The company explicitly applies this in its hiring practices.
• NExT e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNExT e.V. (Network for Digital Transformation in Public Administration) produced the 'Nachnutzung in der öffentlichen Verwaltung' study (April 2026), which informs Lokalprojekte's positioning as an orchestrator for scaling digital solutions across municipalities and states.
• dtec.bw (Digital Technologies Research Center)coreStrategic or Co-development Partnerdtec.bw is the German research center for digital technologies that funded the four-year 'smart&agil' program, under which Lokalprojekte collaborated with three counties in Thüringen and Hessen on digitalization projects at the intersection of social services and digital administration.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• Hays: Hays provides recruitment, temporary staffing, and project professionals across a broad range of functions. It is comparable in recruiting and deploying external talent for client needs, but serves a much wider set of sectors and occupations.
• DigitalService GmbH des Bundes: DigitalService GmbH des Bundes designs and implements digital services for German government. It is comparable through hands-on public-sector modernization and multidisciplinary expert delivery, although it is a federal government entity with a nationwide product mandate.
• Cassini: Cassini advises public-sector organizations on strategy, digitalization, procurement, and implementation. It is comparable in serving German administrations and managing transformation programs, while Lokalprojekte differentiates through embedded temporary specialists.
• GovDigital: GovDigital is a public-sector IT and digitalization network that helps administrations modernize services and shared capabilities. It overlaps with Lokalprojekte's public-sector digital transformation work, but operates at a broader IT-services and cooperative-infrastructure level.
• DIS AG: DIS AG provides temporary staffing, recruitment, and project support through specialized personnel. Its employer-led matching and deployment model is relevant to Lokalprojekte, although its customer and professional base is substantially broader.
• Materna: Materna is an established German IT consultancy with substantial public-administration and digital-government capabilities. It overlaps with Lokalprojekte's process modernization, citizen services, and technology implementation work, but at a much larger technical-services scale.
• PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand: PD is a major German consultancy advising public administrations on management, organization, infrastructure, and digital transformation. It is comparable because it serves the same municipal and public-sector modernization needs, although it delivers through conventional consulting teams rather than temporary cross-sector staffing.
• BearingPoint: BearingPoint is a management and technology consultancy with public-sector transformation expertise. It addresses similar administrative modernization, process, and technology challenges, but through a broad international consulting portfolio.
• Sopra Steria: Sopra Steria provides large-scale digital and consulting services to public administrations across Europe. It overlaps with Lokalprojekte's government digitalization, process, and citizen-service projects, while operating as a much broader technology incumbent.

Direct peers

• GULP: GULP connects organizations with freelance IT specialists for defined projects. Its expert-placement model closely matches Lokalprojekte's deployment of external professionals, though GULP primarily focuses on commercial IT contracting.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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