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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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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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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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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the NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy; this important step marks the third milestone in the life of NISPAcee
Mirko Vintar, Professor of Administrative Information Systems and E-government at the Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, p.30
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NISPAcee has demonstrated through its conferences, its pub¬lications, its interventions that transition has happened, is happening, and will happen
Geert Bouckaert, professor of Public Management at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, The Netherlands, p. 358
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NISPAcee has modelled in itself the kinds of success and contributions to public service that it is seeking to further in its members. It has built strong and motivational social bonds among leaders in public-service education and broken down regional barriers to cooperation. It has planted the seeds for good scholarship and significantly advanced the quality of policy analysis in the region.
Michael Brintnall, Executive Director of the American Political Science Association, United States, p. 367-368
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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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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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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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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 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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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 is one of the leading organisations in the domain of public administration that has a large network in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. In the 20 years of its history, the organisation was able to produce results, make significant contributions to the area of public-administration research and excel in many areas of their work
Rolet Loretan, General Director of the International Institute of Administrative Science, Belgium, p. 374
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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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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 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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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 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 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 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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