Events
Public Affairs
Tuesday, 18.11.2025 | 9:00 am – Wednesday, 19.11.2025 | 4:00 pm (CET)
This intensive two-day workshop is designed for professionals looking to enhance their knowledge of public affairs and government relations. Through interactive sessions, case studies, and hands-on exercises, participants will learn:
- The basics of policy analysis and advocacy campaigns
- Stakeholder engagement to build and manage relationships with policymakers
- Strategies for navigating public affairs challenges and mitigate risks
- How to develop and implement effective public affairs strategies.
Key topics include lobbying frameworks, audience mapping, crisis management, and measuring success. This skills course provides actionable insights and practical skills.
This seminar is offered as part of the Executive MPA programme and in the open enrolment programme.
On-site event
Bureaucracies & Evidence-Based Policy-Making
Thursday, 20.11.2025 | 11:00 am – Saturday, 22.11.2025 | 4:00 pm (CET)
Bringing evidence to policymaking is a critical challenge for today’s policymakers at all levels of government. On the one hand, demand for supporting policy designs and implementation practices with knowledge, information and research is ever-increasing, putting pressure on programme managers and policymakers at various levels to step up their game and be well-versed in the craft of policy research. At the same time, the social, political and media environment makes the rational use of knowledge and research more difficult – knowledge and information becomes contested, ignored and side-lined in a world shaped by the increasingly powerful role of digital media and social polarization.
Debates about evidence-based policy often focus on two worlds: the world of research and the world of politics. This take underestimates the critical role of the bureaucracy in policy-making as well as its various linkages with external experts and advisors; and reforms to promote evidence-based policy often fail to grasp these realities. That is why the course combines insights from research on the role of evidence with those from the world of politics and bureaucracy.
This seminar is offered as part of the Executive MPA programme and in the open enrolment programme.
On-site event