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Building Bridges: The partnership with EURAC Bozen takes a new step. International conference on artificial intelligence in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation

On 28 February 2025, the Institute for Comparative Federalism at EURAC Bozen organised, in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, an international conference on "Artificial Intelligence - Challenges for Administration and Law". EURAC Bozen is a research institution with which FÖV signed a cooperation agreement in 2010. The conference represents a new step of a lively scientific exchange between the two institutions.

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“Satisfied with New Work? The effects of changes in work on the health and satisfaction of employees”

The third workshop in the “New Work in Public Administration” series of events will take place from April 2 to 3. As in previous years, the event will be organized by the National Intsitute for Public Administration (NIPAG) and held in cooperation with the subcommittee “General Administrative Organization” (UA AV) of AK VI of the Conference of Interior Ministers under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jan Ziekow and Dr. Silke I. Keil.

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Discussion Paper „What does knowledge management in public administrations look like in practice? Development of KM criteria on the basis of case study reviews" is published

The recently published discussion paper “What does knowledge management in public administrations look like in practice? Development of KM criteria on the basis of case study reviews.” analyses and clarifies the sometimes elusive concept of knowledge management using a series of international case studies. The author Stella Hill examines over 100 instances where knowledge management has been implemented in the public sector, deriving a set of criteria that empirically define knowledge management.

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Artificial intelligence in administration: reducing bureaucracy à la Musk - Prof. Dr Jan Ziekow and Dr Silke I. Keil from the NIPAG in dialogue with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

The ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE), an organisation initiated by Elon Musk and created by decree, is streamlining public administration in the USA by using AI, among other things. In this context, Prof Dr Jan Ziekow and Dr Silke Keil from the National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG) discuss the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence in public administration in Germany.

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The handbook "The Civil Service in Europe: A Research Companion" has been published

Over 50 experts from various European countries analyse the changes and reform needs of the civil service in Europe comparatively in about thousand pages. The handbook aims to establish civil service law as part of European constitutional and administrative law and promote a European public administration perspective.

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Lecture hosted at the NIPAG on the international research project 'Opportunities and risks associated with automated administrative decisions,' with the participation of the NIPAG.

On 3 December 2024, guest researcher Prof. Angela Ferrari Zumbini (Universita Federico II, Naples, Italy) gave a lecture at the National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG) on the application of artificial intelligence in administrative decision-making.

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Dr Jenny Rademann at the Dialogue Forum on '3 Years of the German Act to Strengthen Children and Youth (KJSG)'.

Dr Jenny Rademann, research associate at NIPAG, was invited to contribute to the impact dialogue, 'Three years of the German Act to Strengthen Children and Youth: Further development and learning processes in municipal practice'.

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Launch of the Youth Check Berlin (YCB) project

The NIPAG has initiated the development of a youth-check for the state of Berlin. The kick-off workshop for the youth-check Berlin (YCB) programme took place on 26 November 2024.

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NIPAG participates in the annual conference of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) on the topic 'Use of AI in public administration'

This year's annual conference of the German Section of the IIAS focused on 'The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in public administration'. Research associates from the National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG) were present to discuss the topic with practitioners.

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Discussion Paper 92 published

The recently published NIPAG Discussion Paper addresses the question of how public administration can most effectively meet the challenges of the present and the future. It sets out strategies for maintaining capacity of public administration to act effectively in the context of multiple crises and rapid change. NIPAG conceptualises this in terms of task orientation, which can be defined as a project-oriented approach to work that takes tasks as the fundamental unit of analysis.

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