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The Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee)

Підписана Угода про членство між Київським національним університетом імені Тараса Шевченка та Мережею інститутів та шкіл публічного управління Центральної та Східної Європи (NISPAcee)

The Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) was established in 1994 and legally registered under the Slovak legislation as an international, nongovernmental, nonprofit organisation in October 1995 with the Headquarters located in Bratislava Slovakia.

The mission of NISPAcee is to promote and strengthen effective and democratic governance and modernisation of public administration and policy throughout the NISPAcee region.

Functions and Objectives

The major NISPAcee strategic issues in the present era are the following:

  • NISPAcee is an academic association/community. Its first priority is to contribute to the improvement of teaching and research in the NISPAcee region in the field of public administration and public policy.
  • NISPAcee provides forum for academicians sharing their results among themselves and with practitioners. The main venue for sharing the results and experiences are the annual conferences and the journal.
  • NISPAcee – as an academic community – aspires to increase the cooperation with the training centres even by providing programmes and teaching materials for practitioners when it is needed and resources are available.
  • NISPAcee supports democratic governance and public administration modernisation with practice-oriented research and the involvement of practitioners in its activities. The involvement of practitioners can, among other possibilities, take the form of membership and special activities for practitioners, e.g. thematic panels within the framework of the annual conference, training programmes, thematic workshops, consultancy projects etc.

Therefore, the major NISPAcee Functions and Objectives are:

  • Facilitating training and education
  • Fostering research
  • Promotion of public administration and policy as distinct fields

NISPAcee Region

NISPAcee region covers 5 geographic areas:

  1. New EU member countries (Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia).
  2. Non-EU member countries in Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Turkey).
  3. Countries in the West Balkans (Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro).
  4. Countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan)
  5. Countries in the Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan). 

Activities

  • NISPAcee Conferences
  • Working Groups
  • NISPAcee Summer Schools
  • Training Programmes
  • Study tours
  • Projects
  • Awards
  • Internships
  • CEE Reports on PA Programmes
  • Translations
  • NISPAcee Publications
  • NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy
  • Other publications (no NISPAcee)
  • European Accreditation

Offers and Opportunities

 As an Institutional Member of NISPAcee (The membership agreement was signed in 2021), TSNUK obtains from NISPAcee the following benefits:

  • Receive copies of all NISPAcee e-publications.
  • Receive regularly NISPAcee e-Newsletters, circulars and Annual Reports.
  • Has the right to use the NISPAcee membership logo on the member’s website.
  • May apply for EAPAA Accreditation services.
  • May participate in the NISPAcee Annual Conferences and other activities at a reduced rate.
  • May participate in the NISPAcee General Assembly and vote on all relevant NISPAcee matters during the General Assembly meeting.
  • May nominate candidates from own institution for the Steering Committee, elect members of the Steering Committee and confirm NISPAcee policies.
  • May initiate new projects and activities under the NISPAcee umbrella and propose new activities of interest for the benefit of academics and practitioners e.g. high-level meetings, roundtables, workshops, trainings, study tours, applied research, policy papers, etc.
  • May utilise the capacities of all other NISPAcee members (associate, governmental and individual) for advisory, consultancy services and joint activities and projects.
  • May develop within NISPAcee a special community of academics and practitioners interested in innovations, experience sharing and learning from each other.
  • May utilise the NISPAcee database service.
  • May maintain and publish own institutional data on the NISPAcee web page.
  • May publish and promote own news, events and publications on the NISPAcee web page, social networks and in the Newsletter.
  • May publish in the NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Public Policy and other NISPAcee publications.
  • May take the opportunity for Public Administration and Policy professionals in own institution to cooperate with NISPAcee as experts in various NISPAcee activities.
  • May become an active part of the prominent international public administration and policy community.

NISPAcee Coordinator at TSNUK: Viktoriia Tkachenko, e-mail: