B4Gov, One Week for Public Policy Lovers
If you have a passion for public policies, mark down the 22-26 February week. B4Gov – Bocconi for Government week, is a total immersion in the debate regarding public administrations and national and international public policies. Among the protagonists, not only public figures such as Italian Minister for Simplification and Public Administration, Marianna Madia (with a live video link), but also students and Bocconi professors.
Minister Madia will introduce the whole week during the first event, La PA che vogliamo. Persone e riforme: la passione di servire il pubblico, a debate stemming from the idea that, in the end, people and their motivations decide the effectiveness of any change. Alfredo Nunzi, Secretary of the Europol Management Board, will close the week with a conversation on the challenges of the EU internal security strategy.
In between, there will be time for two events organized by Bocconi students (a debate on transparency and a showing of Annalisa Piras' movie The Great European Disaster) and four open lectures on the gender gap, EU cultural policies, the contemporary art system as legitimation system and regulation systems of health technologies.
The job market for public policies students is the topic of two meetings with experts and alumni, focused on lobbying and the diplomatic career.
Columbia University's political scientist Nadia Urbinati will talk about the crisis of democracy, while scholars from five international universities will present the results of LIPSE, a research program on innovation in the public sector, funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme.
During the week, the graduation ceremonies of Bocconi and SDA Bocconi programs on the public sector will take place: Emmas - Executive master in management delle aziende sanitarie e socio-assistenziali, Emmap - Executive master in management delle amministrazioni pubbliche and Mihmep - Master in international healthcare management, economics and policy.
"Every day there will be a new stimulus", Valentina Mele, Director of the MSc in Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations, says. "We will start with an event of national interest and will close with an international topic, because the future of decision making is international. The week is the expression of an academic institution like Bocconi, which offers a complete range of programs taught in English about public administrations - from the Bachelor in International Politics and Government to the MSc in Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations, and the PhD in Public Policy and Administration – and carries out research on the topic".