The Austrian Federal Chancellery, Department for Administrative Innovation, is organising an EPSA 2011 Knowledge-Transfer activity on 7 March 2012 at its premises in Vienna. This "EPSA Knowledge-Transfer - Trends and Best Practices from the European Public Sector Award" will present two of the three award winners of the EPSA 2011 contest, namely the Austrian project "ÖkoKauf Wien", prize winner in theme 3, and the Spanish project submitted by the Bilbao City Council: "Political Management based on Economic Stringency and Strategic Budgets", prize winner in theme 1. Furthermore, a Best Practice Certificate recipient, the Austrian project "Policy Counseling 2.0" will also be presented. The sessions will be opened by the EPSA Manager Alexander Heichlinger who will give an overview of the main trends observed in the applications submitted to EPSA 2011. The activity will take place in German. Agenda of the meeting.
This book aims to demonstrate that various creative and smart routes to excellent solutions are possible, by analysing success stories in different areas of local public management from seven European cities in the EPSA scheme – Bilbao (ES), Birmingham (UK), Mannheim (DE), Milan (IT), Tallinn (EE), Tampere (FI), and Trondheim (NO). It concludes by presenting seven steps leading to excellence. The only thing left to find out is: are other cities ready to take on the challenge?
What kind of ideas are behind the remodelling of the state and public sector, and how have these ideas materialized in practice? In this book the authors illustrate what are the driving forces behind the huge amount of public management reforms over the last three decades. Trends and ideas of public management reforms in practice are validated by data from European Public Sector Award cases (2009 and 2011).