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First Major International EPSA 2011 Knowledge-Transfer Conference, Bilbao, 4-5 June 2012

05 March 2012
International EPSA 2011 Knowledge-Transfer Conference, Bilbao, 4-5 June 2012

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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More information as well as the programme of the conference, the registration form, ect. will be available soon. Please keep checking our website!

The EPSA 2015 winners are…

Supra-local and local award: Every Child Safe Forever – The Development of Relentless Family Case Management and the End of Parole and Other Court Orders, submitted by the Youth Protection Amsterdam Region (NL)
European, national and regional award: BQ-Portal – The Information Portal for Foreign Professional Qualifications, submitted by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (DE)
Cross-cutting award: Urban Environment and Health, submitted by the Barcelona Provincial Council (ES)
Read more about the EPSA 2015 final event and award ceremony

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  • In Search of Local Public Management Excellence Seven Journeys to Success

    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?

  • Public Management in the 21st Century

    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).

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