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Survey: Impact of CAF on human resource management
KDZ Centre for Public Administration Research carried out a survey for the Slovenian EU-Presidency and proved that CAF leads to significant improvements in human resource management.
Blog
Let data work for our cities!
On 12 and 13 May 2022, the fourth meeting of the CSPF (Cities for Sustainable Public Finances) network took place. This fourth meeting was dedicated to new and disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence, its application to smart cities and the role of data in these projects. With the participants of this meeting, a workshop was held on this theme to determine together a top 10 of points of attention that help to increase the chance of success of such projects. A good exchange of data is an important precondition for this. In this article we explain some initiatives to clarify the importance of data interoperability and also briefly outline the results of the workshop.
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Cost and Effectiveness of Public Administration in Europe
How much does Public Administration cost? How much is the provision of public services and how effective is Public Administration in Europe? Thomas Prorok shows this in a comparison among European countries in today's blog post.
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Budget Committee of ReSPA in KDZ
The Budget Committee of the Regional School of Public Administration held its meeting at the KDZ in Vienna and signed the Partnership Agreement for the BACID programme.
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CAF Facilitator & External CAF Feedback Expert (EFACs) Training
Last week KDZ and Regional School of Public Administration started its CAF Facilitator Certification Course in Vienna for 20 participants mainly from the Western Balkan.
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Digital Transformation in Public Finances
Carlos Perona (CSPF Project Officer) is writing about the last meeting of the Cities for Sustainable Public Finances and describes the discussion about digital transformation in public sector.
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Cyber security for our communities
At the meeting of the European city network "Cities for Sustainable Public Finances" (www.cspf.eu), author Joe Pichlmayr presented cybersecurity challenges for cities and citizens. His urgent appeal was that cities and the public sector in general need to prepare for increasing cyberattacks.
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Covid19-Subsidies for companies in Europe
Subsidies for businesses varied widely in European countries. Read the latest comparison of subsidies by KDZ Managing Director Thomas Prorok in the blog post.
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Kelmend Zajazi | Executive Director of NALAS
The long-term cooperation with KDZ means a lot to us at NALAS. In KDZ we found a peer that fully understands who we are.
Isabelle Verschuren | Federal Public Service Policy and Support (BOSA), CAF correspondent of Belgium
In the last years Belgium has planned and organised many different CAF activities (e.g. CAF training, Certification of CAF label) together with KDZ.
Josep Medrano | Director of Strategic Planning and Taxation, City of Barcelona
For the City of Barcelona, the collaboration with KDZ through the European "Cities for Sustainable Public Finances (CSPF)" has reached a qualitative advance.
