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The Public Administration School of Catalonia |
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Introduction |
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Introduction The mission of the School is to improve and innovate the public administration by means of training, selection and research in the field of public management, with a view to promoting a common culture and shared values of public service. The objectives of the School -founded in 1912 by Enric Prat de la Riba- are stated in Act 4/1987, of 24 March, which regulates its functioning as well as establishes an open framework to promote co-operation with other public or private institutions and, especially, with Catalan universities. The Public Administration School of Catalonia
is an autonomous body, of an administrative nature, reporting to
the Ministry
of Governance and Public Administration of the Generalitat
of Catalonia -the Catalan Autonomous Government-, with headquarters
in Barcelona and branches in Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. Since
1996, it hosts the European
Centre for the Regions of the European Institute of Public
Administration (Maastricht). |
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Working at the service of other institutions Currently, the School has opted to be an instrument of support to the policies of improvement of the Catalan public administration, in particular the Generalitat and Local Government, mainly focusing on aspects related to human resources management, executive management and organisational change. The School therefore integrates all its activities (training, recruitment, research…) within the human resources policies of the different branches of government, playing and instrumental and support role which ties its objectives to the strategic objectives of those organisations to which it lends its support. This willingness to serve has also been illustrated by the tendency to adapt its own decision-making process to that of the organisations to which it lends its support by means of different activities. The Public Administration School of Catalonia
has taken up the role of an institution
at the service of other institutions which, while contributing
to the improvement of public administration, strengthens the self-government
of Catalonia. |
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Training For further information: 2009 Training Programmes: Training Service: |
The School shapes its training courses towards obtaining results that are directly applicable to everyday work, thus increasing year after year the capacity of response and adaptation of civil servants to the new necessities and demands of the public. To achieve this, its main objective, it has diversified its actions, to meet the organisations' needs: by creating training courses which are adapted to the needs of the beneficiaries, on their own premises, or adapting its own standard courses to the needs of specific groups from within a same organisation. The training activities are directed at staff from the Generalitat's services, the universities, Local Government and other administrations, and come under the following headings:
Initial training or lifelong learning are focused on the following tasks:
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Other training services offered include:
In 2004, the School organised 867 courses, totalling 25,928 hours and 14,210 students. |
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e-training |
The School launched its distance training courses. The e-training department of the School (Aula Virtual) has been created with the objective of reaching out to all the staff of the different branches of public administration, thus overcoming problems linked to territorial dispersion or the difficulties of certain categories of staff, who, due to their special work schedules, are not able to attend courses. |
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Recruitment For further information: Recruitment Service |
The School analyses, evaluates and provides technical support for the process of recruitment of civil servants for the services of the Generalitat and, on the basis of specific agreements, for Local Government. In addition, the School organises and holds decentralised selective examinations for access to the State-qualified status of Local Government Civil Servant, under the terms specified by the National Law and the Agreement in force with the National Public Administration Institute (INAP). |
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Research For further information and research catalogue: Research, Documentation and Publishing Service: |
The School also aims at promoting research and development (R+D) in areas related to public administration and, in particular, those related to decision-making, organisation, management and improvement of the efficiency of public services. Each year, the School organises two public competitions to grant subsidies and other forms of aid to research projects in these fields. Since 1990, more than one hundred studies have been completed thanks to these competitions. For annual reports and other full text documents,
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Library For further information: Library: |
The School also has library which is open to the
public, which is specialised in management, public services and
administrative law, and provides documents which can be consulted
on location, bibliographical information, abstracts, loans, interlibrary
loans and internet (wi-fi). |
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Publications For further information and publications catalogue:: Publications Service: |
By editing specialist reviews, the School favours the spreading of the results of fundamental and applied research, manuals, norms and other materials among civil servants and researchers. More specifically, the School publishes the review
"Revista catalana de dret públic"
("Autonomies. Catalan Journal of Public Law", 1st period, December 2004) and the "Revista
de Llengua i Dret" (Language and Law Journal) and a series
of collections of books -"Studies", "Materials",
"Manuals and Formularies", "Research Papers"
and "Local Government - How to proceed?"-. The School
also participates in joint editions and other co-operations. |
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International relations |
The School has established co-operation exchanges and has subscribed agreements with national or foreign centres with a similar vocation, in order to provide training which is broadly in line with the one which is provided by other public administrations, and promoting the exchange of trainers and civil servants. Within this framework, the School has co-organised training activities, developed programmes and carried out exchanges of civil servants with, among others, the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), various Regional Administration Institutes (IRA) and the Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale (CNFPT) in France, the Führungsakademie of Speyer and Karlsruhe, the CEFA in Coimbra and the IREF in Lombardy, as well as with various Spanish and Catalan universities and institutions. |
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Governing bodies |
The bodies governing and managing the School are the Chairman, the Board of Governors and the Director. The Chairman of the School is the Minister in charge of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Administrations. Its Board of Governors discusses and monitors the School's activities, carries on consultations and approves its work programme. The Board of Governors is composed of the following members: The Chairman of the School The Director of School is designated by the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia on proposition from the Minister in charge of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Administrations. |
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Address
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Public Administration
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Branch offices
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Girona Lleida Tarragona Terres de l'Ebre |
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European Centre
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European Centre for the
Regions - branch of the EIPA in Barcelona |
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