Grant to improve governance of European public agencies

An OU academic has led the preparation of the proposal that won a large Horizon 2020 project aimed at improving the management of public services across Europe.

Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management in the OU’s Faculty of Business & Law, is in the steering committee of the project, Co-Production and Co-Governance: Strategic Management Public Value and Co Creation in the Renewal of Public Agencies across Europe.

The project, which has been awarded €4,559,298 from the European Commission, began in May 2018 and will run until October 2021, during which time it will produce a set of tools and will create new models for the strategic management of public agencies across Europe.

The project will develop a web-based toolkit and a practice sourcebook which features best practice case studies and models for the public sector to consult.

Professor Ongaro said:

“The main project outcome we will seek is one where we find strategic approaches and models of strategy making that fit the European context and values and which are based on bottom up principles of co-production, co-innovation and co-governance.

Such models enable the kind of strategic renewal which will add to the legitimacy of local and national governments across the EU.”

Watch Professor Ongaro’s inaugural lecture on: Context in public management, the missing link.

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