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CSPF meeting to the ongoing consequences of Covid19
On the 2nd and 3rd of this month, the European CSPF was proud to hold its third meeting virtually in Vienna and faced the ongoing consequences of Covid19 quarantines.
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Local Government in Austria - Responses to Urban-Rural Challenges
The present report provides an overview of the system of local government in Austria.
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Anna-Gabriella Nadolph
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KDZ im Dialog - Megatrends in human resource development of European public administration
Discuss the new demands on the workplace with Barbara Zupanc (Ministry of Public Administration, Republic of Slovenia) and Thomas Prorok (KDZ).
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To our partners in Ukraine
The KDZ-Centre for Public Administration Research has been working with partners from Ukraine for more than 20 years. Our thoughts are with the partners and their families. We are proud that together we have made important contributions to strengthening democracy, good governance, decentralization and European integration. Now we are experiencing dark days in Europe. But we are convinced that democracy and governance are stronger than war. And we will continue to support this.
News | European governance and urban policy
Philip Parzer is new Head of the CAF-Centre
Philip Parzer will take over the Lead of the CAF Centre on March 1, 2022 from Thomas Prorok, Managing Director of KDZ Centre of Public Administration Research.
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The KDZ - Annual Report reflects the activities of the KDZ in 2021. It serves as an overview of the activities and achievements of the KDZ for the Board and the members as well as interested persons.
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Local Government Worldwide - Responses to Urban-Rural Challenges
Alexandra Schantl (KDZ) and Karl Kössler (EURAC) discuss urban rural challenges highlighting examples from 5 continents and 16 countries recently published by the international LoGov-Network.
News | European governance and urban policy
KDZ in dialogue - Local Government Worldwide - Responses to Urban-Rural Challenges
Alexandra Schantl (KDZ) and Karl Kössler (EURAC) discuss urban rural challenges highlighting examples from 5 continents and 16 countries recently published by the international LoGov-Network.
News | European governance and urban policy
Driving Quality, Innovation and Change with CAF in EU-Agency “eu-LISA”
The CAF Centre of the KDZ supports eu-LISA in the implementation of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF).
News | European governance and urban policy
Urban-Rural-Thriller
According to a British study, the urban-rural divide is widening. It is therefore important to know why this is the case. In today's blog post, KDZ expert Alexandra Schantl presents a comparative study with174 examples from 16 countries and 5 continents.
News | European governance and urban policy
1st Meeting of Western Balkans Certified External Feedback Actors (EFAC)
On 1 April, the first kick-off meeting of the EFACs (External CAF Feedback Experts) in the Western Balkans region took place at the invitation of the Regional School of Public Administration and in cooperation with the CAF Centre of the KDZ.
News | European governance and urban policy
Thomas Prorok is new member of advisory board of CEPAR
CEPAR is the Central European Public Administration Review by University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Public Administration.
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SEE Local Governments in Post COVID-19 Socio-Economic Recovery
The purpose of this survey is to help improving the understanding over the impact of the COVID-19 crisis at the local government level in South-East Europe, identifying effective and innovative social and economic recovery strategies and ultimately helping formulating concrete policy proposals to inform advocacy efforts of NALAS member Local Government Associations.
News | European governance and urban policy
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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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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Carlos Perona
CSPF Project Officer
News | European governance and urban policy
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.
News | European governance and urban policy
Conference on Quality Management in Public Administration in Tirana (Albania)
On 6 and 7 July, the international conference on Quality Management in Public Administration took place in Tirana with participation of KDZ.
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István Varjas
István Varjas is Principal Administrator at E
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.
