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The KDZ was founded in 1969 by the City of Vienna, the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns

KDZ · Centre for Public Administration Research

and UniCredit Bank Austria AG (Zentralsparkasse at the time) as Kommunalwissenschaftliches Dokumentationszentrum (KDZ) or Research and Documentation Centre for Municipalities.

In 1999, we renamed the association KDZ – Centre for Public Administration Research and established the subsidiary KDZ – Management Consultancy and Professional Training Corporation.

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Our Principles and Values

Contacts

• Our activity is based on the principles of modern public management and public governance.

• We support the development of cities and urban areas, taking into acount their competences.

• Our non-profit status ensures that we base our actions and decisions more on the public value than on profit making.

• We are committed to gender equality and we fight discrimination.

• Knowledge is the foundation of our success.

• We encourage and challenge innovation.

• We are independent in thinking and finding solutions. We act solution oriented.

• We create the synergy of research, consultancy and training.

• We are willing to share our knowledge and learn from others.

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About us

KDZ Center for Public Administration Research Guglgasse 13, A-1110 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 89234920 E-Mail: institut@kdz.eu Website: www.kdz.eu @KDZ_Austria www.facebook.com/KDZ.or.at

KDZ Centre for Public Administration Research

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Our Team

Thomas Prorok

KDZ is represented by: • 24 Experts in our core competences.

• Managing board that consists of general directors of ministries, mayors, directors of city departments and banks. It is led by Thomas Weninger, Secretary General of the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns.

• Management: Peter Biwald, Managing Director and Thomas Prorok, Deputy Managing Director.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Alexandra Schantl

Deputy Managing Director E-Mail: prorok@kdz.eu

Senior Expert EU funding & European Integration E-Mail: schantl@kdz.eu

Bernhard Krabina

Maria Šošić

The main resource is the KDZ website: www.kdz.eu, while all the KDZ publications and studies are available at: www.kdz.eu/publikationen.

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We are a nonprofit organization with its headquarters in Vienna and we offer applied research, consultancy and training to the public sector. We work with local governments, regions and national governments accross Europe.

OUR VISION An efficient and effective government based on a public administration sustained by the principles of democracy, ethics, quality, transparency, participation, resultsbased management, accountability, sustainability and efficiency.

OUR MISSION We are committed to a modern public sector that provides high-quality services to the citizens, customers and the society at appropriate costs, while focusing on the common good.

KDZ research and knowledge work is available on numerous electronic platforms.

Our scientific journal Forum Public Management and the KDZ-Newsletter are available at: www.kdz.eu/FPM

The KDZ Centre for Public Administration Research is a competence center and knowledge platform for the public sector, co-founded in 1969 by the City of Vienna and the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns.

Senior Expert E-Government & Open Government E-Mail: krabina@kdz.eu

Senior Expert Local Government E-Mail: sosic@kdz.eu

KDZ · Centre for Public Administration Research Guglgasse 13 · A-1110 Vienna, Austria · T: +43 1 892 34 92-0 · F: -20· institut@kdz.eu · www.kdz.eu

OUR MEMBERS

Public Management Governance Financial Management City Management KDZ · Centre for Public Administration Research Guglgasse 13 · A-1110 Vienna, Austria · T: +43 1 892 34 92-0 · F: -20· institut@kdz.eu · www.kdz.eu

Our membership grows each year: currently we have about 220 members in ­Austria, including cities and municipalities as well as representatives of banks, public sector associations and institutes.

OUR PARTNERS We cooperate with • the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns, • the City of Vienna and its companies, • Local Government Associations, • Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), • Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe (NALAS) • European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), • Regional School of Public Administration (ReSPA) and • PAC10 of the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region.

Centre for Public Administration Research CORE COMPETENCES

Building Administrative Capacity in the Danube Region (BACID)

We think and act holistically and interdisciplinary, focusing on:

BACID aims at strengthening the governance structures in the Danube Region/ Western Balkans and preparing them for a possibel accession to the European Union by focusing on locale and regional goverments. The countries involved in the programme are: ­Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Moldova and Montenegro. It includes three components:

Public management/governance • Public Administration Reform (PAR) • Improving the quality with the Common Assessment Framework - CAF • People and knowledge: The organisational backbone • Electronic services in times of Open Government and Social Media • Performance budgeting & impacts • Business and citizens friendly services • Managing ethics and values

• BACID Fund: Building administrative capacities in the Region through exchange of knowledge between Austria and partners from the targeted countries.

• Governance Platform: Supporting Public Administration Reform through ­mentoring and knowledge forums.

Financial management • Fees, taxes, transfers, loans: Financing municipal services • Mid- and longterm municipal budgeting • Fiscal Decentralisation • Revenue sharing in the decentralised state • The challenges of Public-Private Partnerships City management • The Urban Agenda of the European Union • Functional Urban Aeras and City Regions in Europe • Ensuring sustainable Services of General Interest • Guidelines for Inter-Municipal Cooperation European Integration for the public sector We offer our core competences in the EU and neighbour countries: • EU-impact on local governments • EU funding for the public sector • Building administrative capacity • Transparency and Open Government • Know how Transfer between EU- and non-EU countries • European Quality Management for the public sector (CAF) • Danube Governance Hub

EU Guide & EU Knowledge Network

• LOGON Danube: Supporting the implementation of the EU 2020 Strategy for South-East Europe.

CAF Center Austria Common Assessment Framework (CAF) was designed by an EU working group as a quality management system for the public sector. It is a tailor made instrument for public administration reform and good governance. The KDZ serves as the ­Austrian CAF Center. Based on 15 years of experience we provide: • CAF Strategy – Development and implementation of national, regional and local CAF-strategies.

• Setting up national or regional CAF-Centers.

• CAF Online – The new internet tool makes CAF implementation easier, quicker and emphasizes on improvement actions.

• CAF Implementation - Managing the whole CAF implementation or facilitating the self-assessment and improvement workshops.

• CAF Training - Enabling the self-assessment team, understanding change with CAF for senior managers, courses for CAF programme managers and facilitators.

• Organising study visits for CAF users.

BACID FUND

Governance Platform

Building Administrative Capacity in the Danube Region & Western Balkan

Link to Urban Platform Danube Region

Small Projects Fund (6,000 €/Project)

2 Governance Forums (2015/2016) e.g. Disaster Management & Anti-Corruption

Knowledge Exchange between Austria and the Western Balkan & Moldova

Roadmaps for Cities & Stakeholder

2 Themes Annual Calls www.bacid.eu

Sustainable Monitoring Support for Cities (2015/2016)

Logon Danube

Working Groups with LGAs

Guidelines on specific Governance Topics (e.g. EU-Funding)

The KDZ manages the internet platform www.eu-guide.at on EU funding available to Austrian cities and municipalities. Within the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns, the EU-Knowledge Network has been established with the same purpose gathering municipal staff dealing with EU funding. www.eu-guide.at Open Government Offenerhaushalt.at is an award winning open spending platform for Austrian municipalities. www.offenerhaushalt.at www.offenerhaushalt.at/english-information CapaCities CapaCities is a Vienna financed programm for supporting cities in East and South East Europe with municipal knowledge from Austria E-Government twinning The KDZ participated in two E-Government twinning projects aimed to support federal ­institutions of Georgia (2012-2013) and Macedonia (2015) in their goal of digitalization of the public sector and Open Data. The twinning projects were coordinated by the Austrian Federal Chancellery.

Platforma The KDZ is member of PLATFORMA, the network of the European local and regional authorities in the field of development cooperation. Its main objectives are: to increase political recognition of the activities of local and regional authorities in the development cooperation, in depth dialogue between LRAs and the European institutions in charge of development policies, promotion of effective decentralised cooperation for the development of partner territories, especially in partnership with civil society. www. Platforma-dev.eu

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