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Call for tender - KDZ searches for gender and social inclusion experts!

The KDZ-Centre for Public Administration Research together with the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns (AACT) is carrying out the OEZA-Project 8325-00/2021 Building Administrative Capacities of the Western Balkans and the Republic of Moldova (BACID III). For the project, an external Gender and Social Inclusion Analysis is required.
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Carlos Perona

CSPF Project Officer

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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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KDZ - Activity reports

The KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research informs its members every quarter with an updated activity report. These reports are in German language.

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István Varjas

István Varjas is Principal Administrator at E

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EPSAS update

EPSAS (European Public Sector Accounting Standards) is one of the topics regularly debated in the Cities for Sustainable Public Finances (CSPF) network. As a European reference group in local public financial management, it counts on the active participation of the European Commission – Eurostat. István Varjas, Senior Policy Officer Eurostat - European Commission, Luxembourg gives an insight on the state of play of EPSAS.
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Joe Pichlmayr

Joe Pichlmayr is CEO of IKARUS Security Software GmbH, member of numerous national and international professional associations, founding member of AMTSO, co-found

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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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KDZ - Reading corner

Members are always welcome to join us. Browse through our inventory and work in our reading corner with a PC workstation and connection options for a laptop.

News | European governance and urban policy

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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KOHA Knowledge centre

The KDZ knowledge centre is an information and documentation facility for public administration in Austria and is open to all KDZ members.

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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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Praxisplaner

The analysis of the current situation of the respective municipality, as well as the medium-term performance and financial planning, are important instruments for the control of a munic

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Gerhard Seiler

Municipal Administration Director, City of Bregenz

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Discussion for a reform of the CAF Certification System

KDZ presented the proposals for the further development of the Effective CAF User Label on Sept 29th during the European CAF Correspondents meeting and initialised the discussion for a reform of the CAF Certification System.
Kelmend Zajazi
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.

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