Abstract: The method for the transfer of data which have been assigned to a user-operable, program-controlled, data-processing-technical first application, to a user-operable, program-controlled, data-processing-technical second application, comprises the following steps: defining data fields to be taken over from the first application, defining data fields to be transferred to the second application, retrieving the first application, selecting a task adapted to be run within the first application, in connection with which and/or for which the data to be transferred from the first application or from a further application preceding the first application have to be transferred, initializing the transfer of the data from the first application, temporarily storing these data, retrieving the second application, selecting a task provided for and adapted to be run within the second application, in connection with which and/or for which the data to be transferred have to be taken over, initiating the taking-over of the data,