The Directorate for Human Resources and Finance (DHRF) provides EESC members, via thegeneral secretariat, with a qualified, competent and efficient workforce. It aims to developa modern and inclusive working environment by promoting diversity and respect at work,facilitating the ...

Desde la adopción del marco para la política de igualdad de oportunidades en 2007, la Secretaría General del Consejo (SGC) ha recorrido un largo camino hacia la implantación de un entorno laboral libre de discriminaciones, que favorezca el desarrollo tanto profesional como person...

Understanding and evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of proposal evaluation systems is crucial to the effective delivery of research. Public research and innovation (R&I) funding is central to the research system because it helps develop the R&I workforce, create...

The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive review of the processes used in Horizon 2020 (H2020) and to conduct international benchmarking of these processes against accepted practice and the wider knowledge base in this area. This document contains the details of the...

The interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 , the report by the Lamy Group , and other stakeholder feedback, noted that the current system for evaluating proposals is in general appreciated and one of the reasons for widely acknowledged successful implementation of Horizon 2020. With ...

AI has become a key enabling technology in public services and its use has increased over the past two years. Ensuring explainabilty of AI systems in public services is crucial but difficult to achieve in case of black-box algorithms. In AI applications in public services, focus ...

This thematic study presents the state of play and challenges with regard to the management of implementing the UN Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from a public administration and governance (PAG) perspective. It is written for policy makers on SDG objec...

The study focuses largely on the process, which can be characterised as a binary choice of ‘top-down and compulsory’ versus ‘bottom-up and voluntary’ mergers. However, it is more nuanced in practice, as exemplified by the country cases that cover wholly-compulsory (Denmark 1970, ...

This report starts with the background and context for SSCs in public administration. What are they? When did they make their way into the public sector? What are the drivers and motives for SSCs? The organisation of SSCs is the prime subject of section two, which highlights vari...