The European Public Sector Award (EPSA) (www.epsa2009.eu) brings together the best, most innovative and efficient performers from the European public sector. The EPSA’s objective - as the first
European learning platform for public administration - is to make these valuable experiences transparent, available and usable.
After a long process of assessment and during a spectacular and high-level event in Maastricht, the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) handed over the European Public Sector Award 2009 last November in 4 categories:
e-Bourgogne (France): A regional Platform for e-Services for all which is a time- and money-saving online system that facilitates enterprises to access public markets. This innovative project which has shown to save time and money for business society won the first price in the theme Performance Improvement in Public Service Delivery.
The Cologne Participatory Budget (Germany) got the first price in the theme of Citizen Involvement. This project created the opportunity for citizens to participate in designing the municipal budget focusing on three areas - playgrounds, streets and sports – by setting up an e-platform. Through this new method a new culture of participation was created based on transparency and ability to activate huge and different target groups in the territory.
Award winner in the third theme, New Forms of Partnership Working, is the Oldham Local Strategic Partnership (United Kingdom) project. This project aims to build a partnership between statutory bodies, third sector agencies and the private sector with the long-term objective of reviving the declining local economy, raising the level of local aspirations and addressing underlying ethnic tensions which went well beyond their statutory obligation to co-operate.
In the fourth theme, Leadership and Management for Change, the final winner was the project on Management in Sant Cugat City Hall (Spain) - Budgeting the Strategy. The traditional expenses culture of this municipality was changed into a cost culture by introducing contracts between politicians and top public managers (PACTE). This project achieved that both the politicians and public managers think in the same direction and pursue the same values, therefore making better policies.
All four EPSA 2009 winners’ projects were initiated at local and regional level, where often the actors are found behind innovative and efficient public performances. It is in the latter case and location – Sant Cugat- where the 1st EPSA 2009 Knowledge Transfer Workshop will be organised to present, share, award and inspire the EPSA good practices.
Sant Cugat del Vallès is one of the most important growing economic poles in the area of Barcelona. It is a city with a high quality of life which attracts many young families for which the city has uncommon ratios such as approx. 40% university degree holders and more than 80% internet connection in households. Some leading international companies have established their headquarters or European hubs in the city.
This workshop will be organised in combination with the next santcugatribuna (www.santcugatribuna.cat) which is a regular meeting point created in 2003 in order to build economic, scientific and citizen partnerships, and new platform (with regular approx.300 participants) for networking leading to business opportunities in the territory through the periodic discussions and lectures it host. The topic selected for this debate is the new European “EU 2020” strategy to boost the economic recovery process as well as to sustain the high quality of life in Europe for the next decade.
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