ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The EGPA 2024 Conference will be held in Athens,Greece from 3 to 6 September 2024
The Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration will be organized in close cooperation with the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
The EGPA 2024 Conference plenary sessions and panels will be articulated around the focus theme: "Strengthening Democratic Governance for Better Public Policies and Services".
The EGPA Conference is organized around several activities: plenary sessions, seminars (PhD symposium, French-speaking seminar, and thematic ones), permanent study groups’ sessions (23 EGPA Study Groups), and side meetings (EAPAA meetings for accreditation, EGPA Steering Committee Meeting, Meeting of the Permanent Study Groups co-chairs and collaborative projects’ meetings).
A series of panels will be coordinated by the EGPA members and key EGPA/IIAS partners.
2024 Theme
The possible causes of discrimination are numerous: sex and gender, race, age, religion, state of health, economic and social condition, and so on. Especially socio-economic differences often produce or aggravate other kinds of inequalities and are the origin of the multiple-discrimination phenomenon. A “negative” approach to differences should be replaced by a “positive” one based on sensitivity to diversity as a relevant driver of human interaction. The aim at inclusion primarily involves the implementation of an integrated and inter-sectional perspective. Moreover, equal treatment corresponds to fundamental rights of individuals and to a duty of public authorities and formally private subjects pursuing a public interest. In order to erase discrimination and foster diversity, many various instruments (both normative and best practices) may be suitable. In such polyhedric context, strengthening democratic governance may be strategic, to ensure better public policies and services. The topics of democracy and participation by the citizens in public governance is pivotal especially for the protection of fundamental rights and the implementation of equal treatment. It is fundamental as well, in the perspective of the enhancement of a new approach to diversity as strategic opportunity for the improvement of administrative action.
We invite proposals (both papers and “discussion pieces” in the form of 1-3 pages proposals outlining topics open for further discussion) addressing issues such as (although not limited to)
- Models and tools for participation by the citizens in administrative decision-making;
- Tools enhancing diversity and democracy;
- Public policies and diversity;
- Diversity and inclusion management;
- Role of the public institutions;
- Private-public partnerships;
- Multicultural and multi-professional teamwork and culturally intelligent human resources
- Importance of the dialogue between researchers and practitioners
- Cross Cultural Training model and social impact
