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20th Anniversary celebrations
18th NISPAcee Conference on "Public Administration in Times of Crisis"
Practical decisionmaking in the European Union: the role of the Presidency
20th Anniversary Picnic
First KSAP Newsletter now out
New information brochure published
Stanisław Konarski – teacher and statesman
New room following renovation named in honour of Władysław Stasiak
Three-Year Report now out
With our deepest condolences and sympathy…
A minute’s silence in remembrance of the dead was observed by staff and students prior to the commencement of Monday’s lessons. In addition, in immediate response to the Smolensk tragedy, a Mass in the intention of the victims was also celebrated, at 17.00 on April 10th at St. James’s Church in Warsaw. This was at the initiative of the alumni, students and employees of KSAP. A particular focus of remembrance at the Mass was the late Władysław Stasiak – as a graduate of the National School’s First Year Class, whose positions held in the recent past included Deputy to the President of Warsaw, Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, Head of the National Security Bureau, and Head of the President’s Chancellery – in which last capacity he was to give his life in the service of his country and the commemoration of its heroic history. In the congregation were the long-serving first Director of KSAP, Prof. Maria Gintowt-Jankowicz, now a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal, dr hab. Jacek Czaputowicz as current Director, representatives of the KSAP Alumni Association and many students, graduates and employees of the National School. Messages of condolence received Latest procedure qualifying for nomination to the Civil Service
Sitting of the School Council
Meeting with David Bearfield
Case Studies Library launched online
Reappearance of KSAP side at 7th CCIFP Cup Tournament
Combined Graduation Ceremony for the ”Bronisław Geremek” Year-Class and Inauguration of studies for 2010/2011
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May 12th 2010 brought extensive and diverse celebrations in the splendid surroundings of Warsaw’s Royal Castle, marking the 20th anniversary of KSAP’s establishment. The event, which enjoyed the patronage of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, included addresses by Minister Tomasz Arabski as Head of the PM’s Chancellery, as well as David Walker, Director of the European Administrative School, and KSAP’s Director Jacek Czaputowicz. 
On May 12th-14th, the National School of Public Administration was honoured to host and run the 2010 international conference of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe, topically devoted to the above, crisis-related theme. We trust that KSAP rose successfully to the challenge of organising the large-scale NISPAcee event, which drew 376 registered participants from 37 countries. 
On May 17th a seminar on this topic was run by Poland’s Permanent Representative to the EU, Ambassador Jan Tombiński.
Director Jacek Czaputowicz for the School and Józef Puzyna for the Alumni Association were the joint hosts of a less-formal event celebrating twenty years of the National School which took the form of a “picnic” held in the KSAP building and yard on May 15th from 15:00 onwards. The event attracted employees past and present, as well as students and numerous graduates from all Year Classes, often with their families. Younger children were well catered for, the normally-somewhat-solemn Main Hall being made over for the duration into a children’s play area – through the installation of two vast bouncy castles filling much of the space! A merry-go-round was also operating in the courtyard, and food and drink for all ages was present in plentiful supply. A good time is believed to have been had by all!
The National School of Public Administration has just brought out the first issue of its new KSAP Newsletter, which deals in more detail (and in Polish and English versions) with the key events of the last quarter. The reporting, also extending to interviews and comment, covers the National School’s activities as regards intramural and continuing training, and all the many and varied other initiatives that have been ongoing in the most recent period, not least in implementing of projects of various kinds and in elaborating and issuing new specialist publications. 
The new brochure on the National School of Public Administration seeks to disseminate information on KSAP and the work it does. An English version is also being brought out to help with the promotion of the School internationally.
In line with the decision of KSAP’s 21st Year Class to select Stanisław Konarski as its patron, Prof. Henryk Samsonowicz ran a seminar with the above title at the School on April 28th.
At 14.00 on April 28th 2010, a short ceremony took place to confer the name of the late Władysław Stasiak – alumnus of KSAP who died tragically in the Smolensk air disaster – upon the large, newly-renovated and remodelled conference room on the third floor of the School building.
The new report on Krajowa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej covers the many and varied activities of the National School through the 2007-2009 period. It contains key new information on the management of the School, the efforts made to modernise its training programme, and the very extensive infrastructural renovation and modernization work carried out in the most recent period. The more typical information on the School is also provided in full, as regards inaugurations and graduations of Year Classes, alumni, the system of continuing education, visitors, events, visits and so on.
The Director, employees, teaching staff, students and graduates – indeed the whole National School of Public Administration community – would like to extend deepest condolences and sympathy to the family and loved ones of the late President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife Maria Kaczyńska, who both died so tragically at Smoleńsk last Saturday.
Those interested are now informed in an announcement by virtue of § 9 para. 2 of a Regulation of the Prime Minister of December 16th 2009 that the examinations foreseen in the qualification procedure for the nomination of Civil Service employees as CS officials will take place on July 3rd 2010 at Warsaw’s EXPO XXI Centre, 12/14 Ignacego Prądzyńskiego Street, Warsaw.
The March 26th sitting of the Council of the National School of Public Administration presided over by Prof. Henryk Samsonowicz dealt with such key issues as the School’s mission and budget, the employment obtained by the “Bronisław Geremek” Year Class, the forthcoming 2010 recruitment, the celebrations of KSAP’s 20th anniversary and other ongoing issues.
On March 25th 2010, the Director met with David Bearfield, in the latter’s capacity as Head of the European Communities Personnel Selection Office (EPSO). Previously a UK Civil Servant and then Desk Officer at the UK Permanent Representation in Brussels, Mr Bearfield joined the Commission civil service in 1993, and has headed EPSO since July 2007. The aims for his meeting on this occasion were to give an account of the new means of selecting EU officials, and to indicate a potential role for KSAP in extending expert support to EPSO.
The appearance of a new icon on the KSAP website’s home page on March 23rd heralded the launch of a new internet service available to students and others interested under the title Biblioteka Studiów Przypadku z Ekonomii (“Library of Economic Case Studies”). This will contain a growing set of different case studies supporting the training in economic issues offered at KSAP. Among the items included from the outset are the award-winning case studies from the 2009 competition (see below).
On March 13th, the KSAP soccer team competed once again for the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Française en Pologne Cup, this time in the 7th edition of the Tournament attracting no fewer then 28 teams. The line-up for this event was Berent, Filipiak, Jachimowicz, Jakubik, Konarewicz, Mosór, Pławiński, Senger, Smoleń and Wnuk, the lads experiencing somewhat mixed fortunes, going 2:3 down to the ESSILOR team (Filipiak and Wnuk scoring), holding LYCEE FRANCAIS to a 3-all draw (goals from Mosór, Jakubik and Smoleń) and beating WYBOROWA S.A. 2:1 (with Jakubik scoring twice ). While these results were sufficient to let the team through to the next stage, it was alas somewhat outclassed by GENERALI, the final score in that match being 4:1 (the single KSAP goal again being down to Mosór). The overall placing was nevertheless a better result than last year, and it was a pleasure for KSAP to again participate in a superbly organised contest with considerable footballing skill on display.
The 2-hour ceremony began at 11.00 on February 26th with words of welcome from Director Czaputowicz, as well as an address by Minister Sławomir Brodziński, in his capacity of Head of the Civil Service. The proceedings as a whole were in the experienced hands of Chair of the School Council, Prof. Henryk Samsonowicz. The inaugural lecture was in turn given by Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz, his theme on this occasion being “Changes in the aftermath of communism. Poland as compared with other countries”. The whole event was further enlivened by an exhibition on “The Story of the Polish Diplomatic and Consular Service” put on by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
February 24th brought the opening ceremony for an exhibition of the above title mounted in the lobby of the National School, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Graduates’ Conference for the “Bronisław Geremek” Year-Class (of the above title) was held at KSAP on February 19th. The event offered an opportunity for the wider Polish administration and others interested to benefit from the information and experience students had garnered in the course of EU co-financed study visits, and above all foreign internships, the latter inter alia spent with the European Policy Centre in Brussels, the Federal Foreign Office (Germany), the Ecology Ministry (France), the Department of the Taoiseach (Ireland), the Better Regulation Executive (UK) and the Scottish Government, as well as several Ministries and Institutes in Portugal. Detailed presentations on the situations in the countries concerned were given, and the comparative element was further enhanced by comparisons where relevant with the Polish situation, making this a unique and extremely pertinent event from which a large number of important lessons and conclusions might be drawn in the space of just a few hours.
The Agreement of the above profile was signed on February 4th 2010, the aim being to further cooperation between the two institutions to the benefit of both parties. The Russian delegation for the signing was headed by Deputy Director of the Academy, Dr. Viktor Romanovskiy.
A lecture of the above title was given on January 20th by Dr Adam Struzik, who, in his capacity as Marszałek (Marshal), heads the regional part of the administration in the Polish voivodship (province-region) of Mazowieckie (Mazowsze). This region is of interest inter alia because it includes both the Polish capital city, Warsaw (as the richest part of the country of above-average wealth from the EU point of view), and rural areas and small towns quite seriously afflicted by poverty and other related problems. In consequence, as the speaker noted, there is a more than four-fold disparity within the voivodship between its richest and poorest sub-regions. Dr Struzik thus presented and discussed the situation of his own voivodship in detail, as well as giving overall consideration to the past, present and (especially) future of the European Union’s cohesion policy.
Recently released online and in book form, the KSAP offer of training courses for the February-July 2010 period covers subjects ranging from administration and management (36 courses), via matters of the economy and public finance (17), through to the EU and foreign policy (34). There are also a wealth of skills and techniques courses, as well as 58 courses of varying format in the English, French, German, Russian and Spanish languages, these covering both general administrative language, and the language of policymaking, economics, law and the EU.
On December 16th another in the series of KSAP seminars was held, the esteemed guest speaker on this occasion being Marshal of the Polish Sejm (i.e. Speaker of the Lower House), Bronisław Komorowski, who gave a lecture of the above title.
The latest in the series of Francophone Conferences organised jointly by KSAP and France’s École Nationale d’Administration took place on December 10th and 11th under the title “Challenges to the development of human resources in public administration at a time of economic crisis, i.e. how to operate more effectively on less?” The Conference forms part of an ESF co-financed project being implemented by KSAP within Poland’s Human Capital OP, and specifically its ”Good Governance” Priority (Priority V); Measure 5.1 ”Strengthening the potential of the governmental administration.” The Conference addressed issues both philosophical (like civil service core values and the status of civil servants) and practical (like employment, expenditure and HRM).
The National School was joined by the Polish Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization in running a Conference entitled “Challenges in the Healthcare System: Human and Organizational Resources and the Potential for Efficient Management and Governance”. The Conference took place at KSAP on December 15th 2009, and was addressed by Poland’s Minister of Health, Ewa Kopacz. Much of the time was devoted to the presentation of a report on management potential in the central healthcare institutions, as drawn up at KSAP on commission from the WHO. More specifically, the Conference considered the challenges facing healthcare today, the necessary competences for personnel in healthcare administration and how best to organise central healthcare institutions.
On December 7th, the National School hosted a meeting that formed part of the training programme called S.E.N.S.E.-Białoruś (Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise), as organised by Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The key aim was to acquaint participants with the history and role of the National School in the development of the Polish Civil Service. A discussion followed the presentation given by the Deputy Director, Dr Marek Haliniak, and there was ample opportunity for the establishing of better professional contacts with the large number of Belarussian guests, not least students of the President of Belarus’s Academy of Administration.
The latest work to be published by KSAP, in the Polish language, is ”Współdziałanie administracji rządowej i samorządowej w Unii Europejskiej”. Under the scientific editorship of Prof. Michał Kulesza and Dr Marcin Sakowicz, the book concerns the joint action of the central and local government administrations within the EU.
By decision of November 15th, the National School announced the results of a competition seeking to foster economics education in Poland. The contest drew 68 registrations, from among which some 39 case studies were submitted for consideration to a 3-person jury comprising Drs. Bogusław Czarny, Małgorzata Znoykowicz-Wierzbicka and Piotr Maszczyk (all of KSAP and the Warsaw School of Economics). The top prize (4000 PLN) went to Konrad Popławski for a study of the Polish mobile phone market, while second prizes of 2500 PLN were won by Beata Bogusz for “To be or not to be professionally passive – that is the question”, and by Eryk Krysowski for a study of the Keynesian-monetarist struggle for influence in crisis-hit America. Five Special Awards were also conferred by the Director of KSAP.
Under the editorship of Dr Krzysztof Szczerski, "Podmiotowość geopolityczna – studia nad polską polityką zagraniczną" offers a collection of studies from 16 authors on Polish foreign policy in the conventional sense, but also as regards the country’s presence in the world – economically, via international organizations and military and peacekeeping roles, by virtue of Poles or people of Polish origin present around the globe, as a “brand” and as various kinds of “soft presence”. In turn, "Wybór orzeczeń" offers a selection of key judgments of the European Court of Justice and decisions of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, as compiled by KSAP Coordinator and Lecturer Prof. Jan Barcz, as well as Anna Pudło.
On October 22nd and 23rd, in the context of the preparatory training KSAP is running prior to Poland’s holding of the EU rotating presidency in 2011, the National School was delighted to play host to:
A cycle of training offering a general orientation as regards the legal system, institutional setup and decisionmaking processes of the European Union was inaugurated ceremonially at KSAP on October 19th. Present alongside the participants as the training gained its formal inauguration were Minister Michał Dowgielewicz and Coordinator Prof. Jan Barcz. The training of course links up with the need to prepare the Polish administration for the tasks awaiting it when Poland takes up the rotating presidency of the Union in the second half of 2011. It is therefore addressed to representatives of the central governmental administration working in the Ministries and offices most directly connected to the Presidency, and in particular those expected to play a key role in coordinating Presidency-related teams, and/or foreseen as heads of delegations or chairs of Committees and Working Groups in 2011. Each training session will involve 60 or so participants, the ultimate aim being to offer the full series of sessions to some 1200 civil servants. It is anticipated that approximately one-third of the training will be provided in English.
KSAP was the host-organiser of a very valuable study visit of the above title which took place on 19th–21st October. Implemented in cooperation with the Foundation for the Development of the Education System (FRSE), and funded under DG Education and Culture’s Lifelong Learning Programme, the visit brought together participants from Bulgaria, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Turkey and the UK, as well as of course the host country Poland. CEDEFOP (the EU’s Thessaloniki-based Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) was also represented, making this an important opportunity for those from old, new and would-be Member States to learn about the Polish Civil Service and its training (not least in KSAP), and to share and exchange general information and experiences on how best to raise qualifications, skilling levels and standards in countries’ civil and public services.
A meeting of the above profile took place on October 16th, as part of work to implement a project originating in the Prime Minister’s Chancellery offering "Support for the Government of Georgia in Implementing a Regional Development Strategy as regards Decentralisation and Human Resources Development”. The project is being co-financed under the Polska Pomoc 2009 Programme from Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On October 1st, KSAP played host to representatives of the CPA, which forms part of Taiwan’s Executive Yuan [The word Yuan literally means “Court” and there are 5 making up the Taiwanese administration, the others being the Legislative, Control, Judicial and Examination Yuans]. Models by which to run qualification procedures for the civil service were discussed in the course of the meeting – at which KSAP was represented by Joanna Langiewicz, Dr Robert Sobiech and Michał Mierzwa.
The Francophone Club held its first meeting of the 2009-10 academic year on September 30th at the National School. The lead theme of this year’s meetings will be Do Polish Administrative Personnel Need to Know French? Director Jacek Czaputowicz set things in motion with his words of welcome to the first meeting, at which it was also possible to enjoy and admire a thought-provoking exhibition mounted by Piotr Firlus of the 17th Year Class, who was seeking to illustrate the varied presence of French culture in the Polish capital city by means of an exhibition of photographs entitled Francuskie oblicza Warszawy.
With the support of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, KSAP was honoured to host several high-level guests to give training on September 15th and 16th under the title “Strategies by which to lobby and exert an influence in the European Union”. M. Daniel Guéguen is the President of the Brussels-based consultancy CLAN Public Affairs, as well as being Director of the European Training Institute (ETI), while Karol Sachs is in charge of “Solidaritous and Alternative Financing” at the DG of Crédit Coopératif, while also serving as President of the Fédération Européenne de Finances et Banques Ethiques et Alternatives.
On September 7th, the National School was delighted to host a Seminar on "Preparing personnel for work in the public administration – experiences of young civil servants from Poland and The Netherlands". The participants included a 37-strong group of officials from the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in The Hague
The commencement of studies by the 20th Year-Class at KSAP was celebrated ceremonially from 11 a.m. on September 4th, with leading figures in the world of Polish administration and from the Diplomatic Corps in attendance. The event gave an opportunity for the distinguished guest, Dr Sławomir Brodziński (appointed to the re-established post of Head of the Civil Service in April 2009) to introduce and present a number of matters of crucial interest to Poland’s public administration, most especially as regards the impact of the Civil Service Act of November 11th 2008. Also offering information of importance, as well as considerable pause for thought, was the Inaugural Lecture – on ”Poland in the European Union” – given by an “insider” when it comes to the Union’s decisionmaking process and general functioning, Polish MEP, Dr Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (EPP), who sits on the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
On July 15th, the National School of Public Administration played host to a delegation from the Kaliningrad Branch of the St. Petersburg-based North-West Academy of Public Administration. The delegation consisted of Director Igor Krasnyanskiy; Head of International Cooperation Irina Soboleva and Maksim Savinov, Head of the Association of Former Lane Kirkland Scholarship Holders in Kaliningrad District. The visit provided the Academy with an opportunity to present itself and its work, and to discuss possible cooperative ventures with KSAP.
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Preparing to introduce new educational standards for “Administration”
June 17th 2009 saw the National School play host to a Conference on ”Proposals for new educational standards as regards tertiary-level courses in the subject Administration”. The Polish Association for Education in Public Administration is also co-organising the event, which enjoys the patronage of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.