This award is presented to academic professionals or practitioners who have made an outstanding impact on the development of NISPAcee's areas of interest, introduced innovative practices that advance public governance and service delivery, and promoted international cooperation by encouraging strong collaboration among institutions both within and beyond the region.
Deadline for receipt of completed nominations for Allan Rosenbaum Award for Outstanding Contribution to Academia and/or Practice in Public Administration in the NISPAcee region: December 10, 2024.
Nominations can be submitted by any NISPAcee member (Institutional, Associate, Governmental, Individual, or Honorary). Each member is allowed to submit only one nomination per competition year.
This week, we gathered in Bratislava to finalize plans for the upcoming 33rd NISPAcee Annual Conference, happening on May 22–24, 2025!
A heartfelt thank you goes out to our dedicated Slovak university representatives — Erika Pastoraková, Tomas černenko, Daniel Klimovský, Katarina Staroňova, Mykola Sidák, Beáta Mikušová Meričková, Nikoleta Jakuš Muthová, and Silvia Ručinská. Their support and insights are helping us craft an event that will inspire meaningful discussions on polycrisis and multi-level governance.
We’re eager to welcome participants from across Europe and beyond for an engaging exchange that promises to shape the future of public administration and governance. See you in Bratislava!
APPLICATION IS CURRENTLY OPEN!
See you there!
We are thrilled to announce that the call for abstract proposals for the 33rd NISPAcee Annual Conference, taking place from May 22–24, 2025, in Bratislava, Slovakia, is now open! This year’s conference will focus on the timely theme: "Polycrisis and multi-level governance: Impacts, lessons learned, challenges and opportunities."
Researchers, practitioners, and scholars in Public Administration are invited to submit their abstracts by an extended deadline November 25, 2024, and contribute to this important conversation on governance in times of crisis.
Don't miss the chance to present your work, connect with an international community, and engage in thought-provoking discussions. Read on for submission details and more about what to expect at this year’s conference!
The award is a tribute to a commitment of Alena Brunovska, one of NISPAcee’s founders and the first Chair of the NISPAcee Steering Committee, to the development of public administration education in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.
EXTENDED Deadline for receipt of completed nominations:
December 10, 2024.
The
Mzia Mikeladze PhD Thesis Award aims to promote research by young scholars on
public administration and public policy in the NISPAcee region.
EXTENDED Deadline for receipt of completed nominations: December 10, 2024.
Nominations
can be made by the NISPAcee member institution where the thesis has been defended.
Review of the Standards of Excellence for Public Administration Education and Training adopted in 2008 is organized by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA).
The Global Exterts Meeting was held on October 14-15, 2024 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Ludmila Gajdosova participated online.
EAPAA (European Association for Public Administration Accreditation) Board and General meetings were held in Athens, Greece, within the EGPA Annual Conference 2024
on September 5, 2024.
EAPAA 25th Anniversary was promoted and celebrated in Athens.
Gyorgy Hajnal, Corvinus University, Hungary (former NISPAcee President) Chair of the EAPAA Board led the meetings. Juraj Nemec (former NISPAcee President and Steering Committee member) and Ludmila Gajdosova (NISPAcee Executive Director), EAPAA Board members, represented NISPAcee in the meetings.
It is our pleasure to invite you to:
The 33rd NISPAcee Annual Conference ,
Main conference theme: Polycrisis and multi-level governance: Impacts, lessons learned, challenges and opportunities
Date:
May 22 - 24, 2025
Place:
Bratislava, Slovakia
That will be organized in cooperation with the University of Economics, Bratislava
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The atmosphere of warmheartedness and the spirit of courtesy, within the context of scientific rigour, always characterised our meetings in NISPAcee and made us not only academic partners but also genuine friends ! A long life to NISPAcee!
Rolet Loretan, General Director of the International Institute of Administrative Science, Belgium, p. 375
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Several joint events have taken place brought NISPAcee and IASIA members together. These include two very successful semi¬nars in China. The first of these occurred in 2010 in Beijing and the most recent one took place in Guangzhou in 2012
Allan Rosenbaum, Professor of Public Administration, Director of the Institute for Public Management and community Service at Florida International University, United States, p. 356
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NISPAcee has the capacity to catalyze needed changes – our experts drafted and submitted many analyses, recommendations, guidelines and other relevant documents
Juraj Nemec, Professor of Public Finance and Public Management at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, p. 387
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It is very good that the mission of NISPAcee gives prominence to excellence in research, to the implementation of international standards in the achievement of research projects and to the promotion of theoretically-sound, practice-oriented MA / BA programmes and doctoral studies.
Jacek Czaputowicz, Head of the Methodology of European Studies Unit at the European Institute, Warsaw University, Poland, p. 385
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NISPAcee has contributed to a unique transformation without any historical precedents. It means that NISPAcee has had to cope with unique challenges of the changing politico-administrative requirements
Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 41
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What has been important for me personally is that NISPAcee was a platform to make good friends. That is why I would like to wish NISPAcee to continue being a platform for creating international friendships between its members. I have learned a lot from you, and I am sure that our discussions helped to build my personality and my personal skills and I know wherever fate puts us, we will always remain good friends.
Barbara Kudrycka, Minister of Science and Education, Poland, p.347-348
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Many of the NISPAcee “core” members served and serve in top positions on the level of national governments
Juraj Nemec, Professor of Public Finance and Public Management at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, p. 387
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NISPAcee is always ready to help in the initial phase of exchange of contacts and information. But NISPAcee is active on the highest stage creating bilateral and multilateral institutionalised partnerships as well
Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 49
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Anyone who has been exposed to the development of the field of public-administration education and training in Central and Eastern Europe will recognize and understand the importance of NISPAcee to the development of public-administration education and training in the region
Allan Rosenbaum, Professor of Public Administration, Director of the Institute for Public Management and community Service at Florida International University, United States, p. 354
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NISPAcee certainly committed itself to a higher level of quality
Mirko Vintar, Professor of Administrative Information Systems and E-government at the Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, p.29
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NISPAcee is specific among the Public Administration societies of the world in that it always had a remedial, or melioristic, element as well, i.e. the role to improve the academic standards of Public Administration as a scholarly discipline in the former Second World
Wolfgang Drechsler, Professor and Chair of Governance at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, p. 378
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I am not afraid to say that NISPAcee is one such framework, which for a long period, on many occasions together with the United Nations Department of Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM), relentlessly worked to help enhance the role, prestige, performance and professionalism of the public service
Haiyan Qian, Director of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management, United N , p. 350
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NISPAcee’s annual conferences not only are interesting for public-administration researchers, but also for those who are (more) involved in public-administration teaching (the reason of existence of most, if not all, NISPAcee members)
(Theo van der Krogt, Secretary – general at European Association for Public Administration Accreditation, The Netherlands, p. 371)
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NISPAcee is an important forum for the exchange of experiences, knowl¬edge and new ideas in the public administration domain in the region
Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 20
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the NISPAcee Journal has likewise had its crucial role to play already, when it comes to the conceptualisation of public-administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. And that role could become yet more significant in the future, as I feel it would be useful to work further on a conceptualisation of a public-administration model for the Central and Eastern European countries
Jacek Czaputowicz, Head of the Methodology of European Studies Unit at the European Institute, Warsaw University, Poland, p. 382
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To my mind, the core NISPAcee activities of the very greatest value are: the annual conferences; other specialised conferences and workshops, mainly TEDs; the publications, especially the Journal; and the way in which relationships with partners from outside our region are maintained
Jacek Czaputowicz, Head of the Methodology of European Studies Unit at the European Institute, Warsaw University, Poland, p. 385
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NISPAcee is not only an institution, but a living community which continues to make a positive and significant difference to create a better Europe in a better world
Geert Bouckaert, professor of Public Management at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, The Netherlands, p. 360
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IIAS and NISPAcee address the challenges of public administration in different geographic regions and environments, but both are striving to make a contribution for improving public administration; to create a forum where academics and practitioners meet and discuss the emerging problems to find common solutions
(Rolet Loretan, General Director of the International Institute of Administrative Science, Belgium, p.374)
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NISPAcee has become a prominent core organization for those specifically concerned with Central and Eastern Europe
Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 19
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NISPAcee has always demonstrated the value of networking, dialoguing, and experience and information sharing
Haiyan Qian, Director of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management, United N p. 349
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