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Overall information SBOV I 2001-2006
Objective
In 2001, the Flemish government awarded the consortium comprising the
KU Leuven (Public Management Institute), the Universiteit Antwerpen (Management
and Administration Research Group), the Universiteit Gent (Social Scientific
Methodology Research Group) and the University College Ghent (Commercial
Science and Public Administration Department) recognition as a Policy
Research Centre for Governmental Organization in Flanders (in dutch: Steunpunt
Bestuurlijke Organisatie Vlaanderen). The director of this centre is Prof.
Geert Bouckaert. The different projects started on 1 October 2001
and will be wound up on 31 December 2006.
The research centre's mission is to support policy formulation, implementation
and evaluation on the basis of academic research (fundamental and applied)
and from the angle of relevant policy problems.
Based on structural financing, specifically in the research lines, the
research centre aims at underpinning systematically the policy and management
cycle in a scientific way. Starting from its critical mass of multidisciplinary
expertise, the centre will make its scientific knowledge accessible and
trasferable to the Flemish government.
In order to realise this, and with a special focus on the support of administrative
renewal, the centre will, in the framework of the policy and management
cycle:
- Undertake fundamental, international comparative and applied scientific
research;
- Within this context, pay specific and prioritised attention to the
valorization and dissemination of this research within the flemish public
sector;
- Give specialised and independent recommendations;
- Deliver scientific support for the development of policy instruments;
- Develop its knowledge basis and network and make it available
Hence the centre will:
- Act as a partner within the context of administrative reform in Flanders;
- Have a societal leverage function for administrative reform;
- Have an academic leverage function for the discipline of public administration.
The centre recognizes itself in the objectives proposed in the tender
for the policy research centre:
General objectives:
- To collect, analyse, and open up data;
- To implement problem-oriented scientific research (short term);
- To implement fundamental scientific research;
- To deliver scientific services.
Specific objectives regarding governmental and administrative reform:
- To give independent advice regarding modernisation of public policy
and management;
- To give specialised advice concerning application of certain policy-
and control instruments in administrations and concerning the coherence
between these diverse instruments;
- To conduct applied, supporting research and give scientific advice
with regard to fundamental policy choices;
- Scientific support in developing monitoring systems and indicators
(qualitative as well as quantitative) that measure the performance of
different government levels in Flanders.
Partners
The policy research centre is a single organisation. It is located as
a separate unit within the three existing universities and the University
College Ghent (a non-university academic institution).
Actors and organs
a) The Steering Group
- Meets twice a year
- Is composed by the Flemish government
- Makes a yearly contract with the Policy Research Centre
- Oversees compliance with the contract
b) Co-ordinator of the Policy Research Centre
KU Leuven: Prof.
dr. Geert Bouckaert
- Contact person for the Steering Group of the Policy Research Centre
and general contact person for the Policy Research Centre in general
- General representation of the Policy Research Centre
- Bears final resonsibility for the Policy Research Centre
- President of the college of academics of the Policy Research Centre
- Co-ordination between the research line team managers
- Co-ordination between the basic activities of the Policy Research
Centre (research lines, B-projects-consulting, policy research centre
valorization)
- Is assisted by a doctor-assistent
c) The College of Academics of the Policy Research
Centre
- Meets every three month
- Is composed of faculty of the different entities:
d) Scientific Advisory Board
- Meets once a year
- Consits of foreign professors
e) Research Line Team Management
The research lines are managed by a team of faculty of the entities involved
in the Centre:
- Multi-actor governance: Prof. dr. Filip De Rynck, Prof. dr. Annie
Hondeghem, Prof. dr. Ria Janvier
- Policy & monitoring: Prof. dr. Marleen Brans, Prof. dr. Filip
Derynck, Prof. dr. Ria Janvier
- HRM & changemanagement: Prof. dr. Annie Hondeghem, Prof. dr. Ria
Janvier
- Finance: Prof. dr. Geert Bouckaert
- ICT/E-governemt: Prof. dr. Filip Derynck, Prof. dr. Annie Hondeghem,
Prof. dr. Ria Janvier
- Fiscality: Prof. Carine Smolders & Prof. dr. Geert Bouckaert
The research line team management meets every two months.
f) Guidance Group
For each research line a guidance group will be set up consisting of scientists
and users. They advise the research team, work as a sounding board and play
an important role in the debate.
g) Secretariat
- Is managed by the co-ordinator
- Offers logistical and organisational support for the Policy Research
Centre
- Manages the means of the secretariat and the Policy Research Centre
valorization
- Is responsible for the consolidated financial management of the Policy
Research Centre
Adress central secretariat:
Maaike Vandenhaute - Parkstraat 45 - bus 3609 - B-3000 Leuven
Tel: +32 (0)16 32 36 10 - Fax: +32 (0)16 32 36 11
E-mail: sbov@soc.kuleuven.be
Task allocation
Distribution of tasks and configurations of collaboration:
| Research line |
KU Leuven
|
U. Antwerp
|
U. Gent
|
University
College Ghent |
| Multi-actor governance |
x |
x |
- |
x |
| Policy & Monitoring |
x |
x |
x |
- |
| HRM & changemanagement |
x |
x |
- |
- |
| Financial & performance measurement |
x |
- |
- |
- |
| ICT/E-government |
x |
x |
- |
x |
| Fiscality |
x |
- |
- |
x |
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