This conference, which is a joint-venture with EIPA, will be hosted by one of the EPSA 2011 Winners - the City of Bilbao- and its attendance is free. The title of this event will be: "Cities of Excellence in the Public Sector: The Innovation Front with their New Practices and Formulas". It aims to bring together some 300 public sector representatives from all over Europe to share, discuss and learn from the various EPSA Best Practice cases.
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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).