Scientific Meeting: New challenges in the delivery of local public services

November 11th, 2022

Universitat de Barcelona

On November 11th 2022, the government and markets group and the Observatory of Analysis and Evaluation of Public Policies of the University of Barcelona, organize an international scientific meeting to deal with new challenges in the delivery of local public services. The meeting will cover recent advances in the research of local government reforms (such as intermunicipal cooperation, privatization, remunicipalization, etc.) and recent or increasing challenges local administrations must face, such cost inflation hikes, ageing and climate change. The meeting will bring together European academic experts who will share their current and future research projects with the aim of promoting a research agenda on these topics for the coming years. Venue (Sala de Recepcions). Facultat d’Economia i empresa. Universitat de Barcelona.

Venue: School of Economics and Business – Universitat de Barcelona. Sala de Recepcions. John Maynard Keynes 1-11, 08034 Barcelona.

Organizing Committee

Daniel Albalate (UB)
Milagros Álvarez (UB)
Germà Bel (UB)
Marc Esteve (UCL)
Eoin Reeves (U Limerick)
Marianna Sebő (UB)

Organizers

Observatori d’anàlisi i avaluació de les polítiques públiques & Grup de recerca en Governs i Mercats.

Financial support

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spanish Government

Program

10:15 Registration

10:30 Welcoming remarks.

Session 1

10:45 Keynote speech. Mildred Warner Cornell University (United States of America)

Session 2

11:45 Short presentations. Research ideas/Interests on Intermunicipal Cooperation.
Gissur Erlingsson, Linköpings Universitet (Sweden)
Jakub Lysek, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci (Czechia)
Filipe Teles, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)
Bart Voorn, Radboud Universiteit (The Netherlands)
Eoin Reeves, Ollscoil Luimnigh (Ireland)
13:00 Lunch

Session 3

14:30 Short presentations. Research ideas/Interests on Intermunicipal Cooperation and Remunicipalizations
Ivo Bischoff, Universität Kassel (Germany)
Sara Blåka, NORCE (Norwegian Research Centre, Norway)
Pedro Camões & António Tavares, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Thomas Elston, University of Oxford (The United Kingdom)
Ole Petersen, Roskilde Universitet (Denmark)

Session 4

15:45 Short presentations. Research ideas/Interests on Intermunicipal Cooperation and Remunicipalizations
Julita Lukomska & Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska, Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland)
Mattia Casula, Università di Bologna (Italy)
Raymond Gradus, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Pawel Swianiewicz, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu (Poland)
16:45 What’s next? (Universitat de Barcelona)
17:00 Closure