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During the EGPA panel, the participants will underline the main lessons of the Trans-European Dialogues (TED). TED has been firmly established as a joint EGPA-NISPAcee event in the "Tallinn Declaration” of the two organizations in February 2008. It is a high-level focused conference on a timely topic in Public Administration (PA) that will profit from bringing together experts from different regions, thereby facilitating exchange and discussion across Europe and even including Central Asia and the Caucasus. This dialogue is also based on a long-term cooperation between the different partners which began more than 20 years.The panellists will point out the key elements of the dialogue: philosophy, format, challenges and perspectives for the future. They will also highlight the main trends for Public Administration: major developments, convergences and divergences, common challenges and different solutions. They will provide the audience with a brief overview of current reforms in the public sector in order to draw out the lessons emerging from current developments. These lessons from our Trans-European Dialogues are crucial to design public administration and public policy as well as to identify the next steps for reforming PA in Eastern and Western European Countries. Dialogues between our networks are essential for the future of PA.
Panelists:
Geert Bouckaert, Chair of the PRAC/IIAS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Andrew Massey, EGPA Vice-President, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Tiina Randma-Liiv, EGPA Steering Committee Member, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Edoardo Ongaro, EGPA Vice-President, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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