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Gyeongsu Kim will be staying at the NIPAG from June 2025 to December 2026 and he will spend the whole time at the Institutes headquarters in Speyer. We are delighted to welcome him and look forward to exchanging experiences with him. He currently works as a Deputy Director in the Korean central government, focusing on digital government and administrative service integration.

From June 30 to July 01, the workshop “AI Compliance? - Regulations on the use of AI in public administration” will take place on the premises of The National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG) in Berlin under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jan Ziekow und Dr. Silke I. Keil.

The 18th German Child and Youth Welfare Day (DJHT), Europe's largest youth welfare summit, took place in Leipzig from 13 to 15 May 2025. The NIPAG was actively represented with three of its own projects: The Competence Centre Youth Check (ComYC), the Project Office Youth Check Thuringia (ProJCT) and the project ‘Implementation support KJSG: Conversion of administrative structures in the area of integration assistance’ (in short: KJSG project).

The National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG) is hosting a seminar on the transformation of the civil service in its Berlin conference rooms on 12 June 2025. The event follows the publication of the book ‘The Civil Service in Europe’, which concludes a research project on the transformation of the civil service in Europe funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Around 50 researchers from numerous European countries were involved in the project. Thanks to a grant from the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the publication is also available as an open access edition.

On 24th April 2025, Dr Jonas Botta, a Research Associate at the NIPAG, presented his opinion as a parliamentary expert before the Committee for Internal Affairs and Sport of the Saxony-Anhalt State Parliament regarding the proposed reform of the Public Safety and Order Act of Saxony-Anhalt (SOG LSA) (LT-Drs. 8/5018). The reform primarily focuses on the introduction of new digital powers for the police.

The third workshop in the "New Work in Public Administration" series of events took place on April 2-3, 2025 with a focus on health and satisfaction in the context of New Work. The workshop was conducted by the NIPAG under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jan Ziekow and Dr. Silke I. Keil and in cooperation with the subcommittee "General Administrative Organization" (UA AV) of AK VI of the Conference of Interior Ministers in the conference rooms of the Berlin office of the NIPAG. The aim of the workshop was to get to know innovative working models in the context of New Work and to discuss their applicability, opportunities and challenges for public administration on the basis of the speakers' contributions.

Presentation of the evaluation results of the New Work strategy of the Ministry of the Interior and Municipal Affairs of the State of Brandenburg (MIK) on March 7, 2025. At this year's Knowledge Café of the Brandenburg Digital Agency on March 7, 2025, the MIK and the NIPAG were given the opportunity to present the implementation and evaluation of the ministry's New Work strategy to an expert audience from science and administrative practice.

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.

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.

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.