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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!

November 7, 2024

Call for abstract proposals for 33rd NISPAcee Annual Conference 2025 is OPEN!

 
 

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 November 10, 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!

October 21, 2024

Call for Nominations for the Alena Brunovska Award for Teaching Excellence in PA

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.

Deadlinefor receipt of completed nominations:
December 1, 2024.

October 20, 2024

Call for Nominations for the Mzia Mikeladze PhD Thesis Award

The Mzia Mikeladze PhD Thesis Award aims to promote research by young scholars on public administration and public policy in the NISPAcee region.
 
Deadline for receipt of completed nominations: December 1, 2024.
 
Nominations can be made by the NISPAcee member institution where the thesis has been defended.

October 19, 2024

Global Experts Meet at UN Headquarters to Redefine Standards of Excellence

 
 
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).
 
NISPAcee representatives Calin Hintea, NISPAcee Immediate Past President and Ludmila Gajdosova, NISPAcee Executive Director participate in the UNDESA/IASIA Task Force appointed for the Review.
 
The Global Exterts Meeting was held on October 14-15, 2024 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Ludmila Gajdosova participated online.
 
 

October 18, 2024

EAPAA Board Meeting and General Meeting 2024

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.

September 9, 2024

Invitation to the 33rd NISPAcee Annual Conference

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


September 3, 2024

Call for contributions NISPAcee Journal of Public Policy Special Issue

The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy welcomes individual submissions up to 8000 words (inclusive of references and notes) that discuss, examine, or review the governance and policymaking in the Western Balkans toward European Union integration.

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I would like to highlight the cooperation has been in development of United Nations Public Administration Network- UNPAN, of which NISPAcee became one of the first institutional members

Haiyan Qian, Director of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management, United Nations, p. 350

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NISPAcee identifies challenges pertinent to Central and Eastern Europe, whereas IIAS identifies challenges of public administration on the worldwide basis. The cooperation of the two institutions leads to sharing innovative ideas

Rolet Loretan, General Director of the International Institute of Administrative Science, Belgium, p. 374

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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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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 also helped to build bridges and networks among academicians and practitioners in the CEE region and the West

Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 19

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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 promoted the development of new, multidisciplinary public-policy and management teaching programmes and of new research projects. There was a basic need to have access to Western social science and practical experienc¬es and NISPAcee established East-West personal contacts, organised meetings, workshops and conferences

Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 49

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NISPAcee has played a very important role in helping to encourage the development of and sustain those institutions from throughout 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. 355

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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 had a decisive role in public administration education – including public law, public economics, public policy and public management – in the region as it has developed strategic and action oriented partnerships with academicians and practitioners of modern democracies

Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 21

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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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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 has done all that a professional community should – carried out its projects effectively and given identity, collegiality and visibility to its members. It has clearly moved what may have been isolated individual scholars and schools into a stronger, mutually reinforcing network

Michael Brintnall, Executive Director of the American Political Science Association, United States p. 367

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NISPAcee today is extremely successful from the point of view of “academic” outputs – it would be difficult to find any other international organization with so many publications issued in a relatively short time and with so many academic activities

Juraj Nemec, Professor of Public Finance and Public Management at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, p. 386

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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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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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focus of NISPAcee on research indirectly helped a lot to improve the quality of the public-administration education in Central and Eastern Europe

Theo van der Krogt, Secretary – general at European Association for Public Administration Accreditation, The Netherlands, p. 369-370

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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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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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Mzia was very much charmed by the warm and friendly atmosphere in NISPAcee, and she gained many friends during her travels and work for the Association. She had a real sense of being a member of a very large family, and I would like to underline this important achievement of NISPAcee. Her experience from NISPAcee was widely applied in Georgia

Malkhaz Mikeladze, Georgian Ambassador in Mexico, Georgia, p. 341

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