The NISPAcee Steering Committee, Chaired by Eka Akobia, reviewed the past as well as planned activities of NISPAcee and decided on all relevant issues. The Steering Committee invites all of you to the 33rd Annual NISPAcee Conference.
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!
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
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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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 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’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 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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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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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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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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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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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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NISPAcee has become one of the most important producers of knowledge and information about political institutional and ad¬ministrative development throughout Central and Eastern Europe
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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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