Ask the Programme Director
What are the challenges facing the public sector today?
Government, business, and NGOs face similar challenges and increasingly rely on cooperation with each other. Issues such as global warming, financial and economic crises, budget consolidation, demographic change, or the role of education in international competition reinforce this trend. This places new demands on management in the public sector, as well as on those responsible for interaction between the sectors. Improving strategic capabilities and reshaping administration at the European, national, and local levels with the objective of improving public sector performance is essential.
We need leaders who understand management, both in the public and the private sector, who are able to establish cooperative arrangements beyond sectoral boundaries, and who are willing to contribute to shaping and implementing societal change. Traditional legal, technical, or business training is no longer capable of meeting these demands.
How does the EMPM programme contribute to this?
With the EMPM, Germany now has its first internationally-oriented programme that offers the expertise and skills required for successful public management: to understand current challenges and public management trends in an international context, to strengthen management capacity based on strategic priorities, to successfully manage and motivate teams, to run projects involving different sectors and government departments, to make use of financial management and performance management systems, and much, much more.
The programme is designed to increase the knowledge and skills of professionals who seek to enhance their public service careers or to move to a leadership position in an organisation with strong links to the public sector. It focuses on current leadership challenges and combines expertise in public administration with public policy knowledge, as well as management tools.
What can participants expect from the programme?
Interdisciplinarity, interactivity, and an international approach are central pillars of the programme. Participants will benefit from the input of experts from academia and practice, dissecting case studies, working in groups, considering decision-making situations from different perspectives, along with the constant exchange and pooling of experience between participants and lecturers. Every student is assigned a member of the faculty as his/her personal tutor, while workplace-related assignments enable students to combine work and study in an ideal way.
