About the Project
Working together for a green, competitive and inclusive Europe.
The Future of Public Administration project and ist particular activities are, taking into account abuses of integrity standards, accountability and transparency in the current democratic states, recognizing the existence of risks that threaten an accountability and the adherence to high standards of public integrity and transparency, as well as recognizing the differences in the approaches to responsibility and integrity, focused on the promotion of application of principles of good governance, adherence to high standards of public integrity and responsibility in public administration in the European countries.
The project FoPA is implemented within the programme Good Governance and Cross-Border Cooperation, which is co-financed by the EEA Financial Mechanism and the State Budget of the Slovak Republic. The scheduled activities of the project reflect the programme target – to improve the integrity and responsibility of public administration. The successful fulfillment of the project activities supposes the institutional cooperation between the Slovak and Ukrainian public institutions, what, at the same time, is the main ambition of the call within the framework of which the project application was submitted.
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Introductory KickOff Meeting (May 18, 2021)
Goals and Outputs
The aim of the implemented institutional cooperation of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is to improve the public integrity and responsibility in the context of application of the principles of good governance. The transfer of examples of good practice in the sphere of good governance through the dissemination activities will contribute to the networking between experts, support the sharing of new ideas, open the discussion about future cooperation and contribute to the improvement of compliance of high standards of ethical integrity and responsibility. At the same time, through the implementation of the project activities, the students will acquire new knowledge and new skills, expand their international contacts and, particularly, they will be included into the discussion about various perspectives of the necessity to find a self-realization of young people in current public administration.
The primary outputs of the project include the transfer of examples of good practice, exchange of knowledge among experts in public administration, good governance and related mobility between cooperationg institutions. The key output of the project is the creation of study course “Competencies of Capacities in Public Institutions”, which will be taught at both the partner universities during the project implementation, and the creation of corresponding study material (available in multiple languages). At the same time, it worth to mention the conferences and workshops oriented to the awareness raising about the project intentions and the problems within the experts and general public. The publication outcomes and other outputs oriented to the publicity of the project are matters of course.
Activities and Milestones
The preparation of the course is scheduled for the first year of the project implementation.
The aim is to create the conditions for making the education process more improved at the cooperating institutions from the perspective of the students and teachers as well.
The main intention of the workshops is to create the platform, through which the students could get acquaint with various perspectives and different views of the participating experts from Slovakia, Ukraine and Norway on the actual problems of good governance. The activity assumes the cooperation of all three participating organizations. The series of workshops “Towards Higher Standards of Integrity and Accountability in Public Administration” will focus on the following topics:
Project Promoter and Project Partners
Management and Implementation of the Project (Project Promoter)
Project Contract
