February 11-13, 2014
The International
Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA) held its Board
of Management Meeting (BoM) at the Headquarters of the IIAS (International
Institute of Administrative Sciences) in Brussels, Belgium. NISPAcee is a
corporate member of the organization. Ludmila Gajdosova, NISPAcee’s Executive
Director, participated in the meeting. She was elected a BoM member during the
last elections, which were held during last year’s IASIA Annual Conference in
Bahrain. The President of IASIA, Michiel de Vries, invited Ludmila Gajdosova to
serve as a Vice-President for Regional and International
Cooperation. In addition, Mrs. Gajdosova also serves as a co-chair of the Working
Group on Education and Training.
IASIA President and IIAS General Director in the middle
The BoM meeting included a Strategy
meeting of the organisation, regular agenda and a special social event with
representatives of IIAS, hosted by its President, Geert Bouckaert, in Leuven. This
social event provided an excellent opportunity for networking between IASIA and
IIAS. The general agenda of the BoM focused mainly on regular activities of the
organisation and their further development. These include annual conferences,
working groups, publications, membership, and cooperation with partners etc.
BOM members
NISPAcee
members may be interested in obtaining information about the upcoming Annual Conference
to be held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on June 30 – July 4, 2014 and IASIA’s
preparation of International Accreditation of public administration
programmes.
CIAPA chair (first from the left)
The Call
for Papers for the Annual Conference is open until February 28, 2014.
Preparations
for the International Accreditation and CIAPA (Commission on International
Accreditation of Public Administration Education and Training Programmes) activities
were discussed. The first pilot
accreditation should be implemented in 2014. There is important information for
programmes from Europe and the entire NISPAcee region in these regards. If
anyone is interested in IASIA International Accreditation in the future, they would
be requested to first of all pass the EAPAA accreditation (European Association
for Public Administration Accreditation), or a joint accreditation could be
considered.
For more detailed
information about IASIA and its activities visit the website:
http://www.iias-iisa.org/iasia/