EGPA Steering Committee Meeting

January 31 – February 1, 2014

The European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) held its Steering Committee meeting at the IIAS (International Institute of Administrative Sciences) Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Ludmila Gajdosova, NISPAcee’s Executive Director, was invited to participate in the Steering Committee as an observer, based on the MoU signed by the two organisations in 2008.

 

 

The two major common activities running jointly by EGPA and NISPAcee are the Trans European Dialogues (TEDs) and EAPAA (European Association for Public Administration Accreditation), in which EGPA and NISPAcee are the only two member institutions. Both TEDs, as well as EAPAA activities, were on the agenda of the EGPA Steering Committee meeting.

The TED7 and TED 8 were discussed. The TED7 was due to be held in Cluj, Romania on February 6-7, 2014 and was being organised by the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania on the theme: Strong Local Governments: Community, Strategy, Integration.

More information about TED7 can be found at: http://ted-dialogues.org/ted-7-cluj-napoca/

Aspecial issue of the NISPAcee Journal will be published by the end of 2014, based on the TED7 presentations and discussions.

The topic for the TED 8, which had been discussed prior to the meeting with the NISPAcee Steering Committee, was approved by the EGPA Steering Committee: "Performance Management and its challenges in contemporary public administration". The term and location will be further discussed and should be settled in the near future.

The next common issue of the meeting agenda included a report on EAPAA presented by Taco Brandsen, EAPAA Secretary-General. EAPAA is undergoing an external evaluation and the result of this is still pending. EAPAA meetings to be organised during the NISPAcee and EGPA Annual Conferences were discussed. Both organisations agreed to work on a more intensive promotion of the needs for quality assurance in the teaching of public administration in Europe and beyond (including the entire NISPAcee region) and the utilisation of European Accreditation as an important tool for the achievement of these objectives. Learn more about EAPAA and its activities on: http://www.eapaa.org/

Other items on the meeting agenda included several topics of EGPA business, including the preparation of this year’s annual conference to be held in Speyer, Germany on 10-12 September 2014. See the EGPA website for more information: http://www.eapaa.org/