IRSPM - Conference 2025

Civic engagement and social capital are often highlighted as central factors in shaping public administration governance and performance, but also collective responses to essential challenges, among which rising inequalities, climate change, and environmental (un)sustainability stand out.

The conference will encourage academics to explore the increasingly complex relationship between citizens and their communities (virtual or physical), the environment, and public administration and services.

In particular, it will emphasize the role of social capital and civic engagement in shaping (and being shaped by) the governance and management of public services and bring about a more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable world.

🟢The Department of Management is the Local Organizing Committee of the conference. 

🟢For details and registration, visit the conference website.

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🟢On April 8, two meetings will be held free of charge and open to the public, including those not registered for the conference:  

• 1:30 p.m. - Bologna congress Cente Europa Auditorium: research meets action, and theory confronts the complexities of practice on the topic that most concerns and challenges us: “The Intersection of Technology and Climate Action.”
• 4 p.m. Bologna Congress Center - Sala Galvani - Session P09 – Practice Panel: The practical challenges of public innovation in local and regional contexts.

Registration is needed (organized by  Nomisma) - https://lnkd.in/d36z-AwD

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PhD course "Network and Collaborative Governance Theories, Methods, and Practice"

Concurrently with the conference,  the PhD course "Network and Collaborative Governance Theories, Methods, and Practice" will be held from 3rd to 5th April 2025.

The course is organized by The Netherlands Institute of Governance and IRSPM & with the support of the Ph.D. program in Public Governance, Management, and Policy (Public-GOMAP) of the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. 

Learn more on the course's official webpage.