Dear PSAAR friends,

We are pleased to inform you that our next EGPA PSG XII Spring Workshop will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, on May 8-9, 2025 at the University of Coimbra - Faculty of Economics (FEUC). Please save the date.

The theme of the workshop is:

BACK TO BASICS: ACCOUNTING INFORMATION USE IN PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

The Workshop’s website is available at:

https://www.uc.pt/feuc/egpa-psg-xii-spring-workshop-2025/

KEY DATES:

Abstracts should be submitted to: springEGPA2025@fe.uc.pt

For more information please contact the Workshop local organizers at springEGPA2025@fe.uc.pt

The Organizing Committee and the Co-Chairs of the EGPA XII Permanent Study Group

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would bring your kind attention to the Special Issue titled “Exploring standard-setting process in the public realm: Taking a holistic view”, which sees as Co—Guest Editors Marco Bisogno, André Carlos Busanelli de Aquino, Carolyn Cordery and Mariafrancesca Sicilia on FAM – Financial Accountability & Management.

The full CfP can be accessed at:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/14680408/cfp/FAAM-CFP-Standard-setting-process-in-public-realm-1710550435293.pdf

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The deadline for submitting an extended abstract has been postponed to 15^th January, 2025.

The EGPA PSG XII Co-Chairs

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to this call for abstracts for the IRSPM panel "P26 Advancing Public Management Education to Address Societal Challenges". The IRSPM Conference 2025, will be held on 7–9 April 2025 in Bologna, Italy. Panel P26 focuses on public management and public financial management (PFM) education and includes topics such as engaging citizens and other stakeholders through PFM education, incorporating digitalization and sustainability in the PFM curricula, or Interdisciplinarity and integrative thinking in PFM education.

More information on the panel can be found here: https://www.irspm.org/panels-pages-2025/conference-2025/conferences/p26-advancing-public-management-education-to-address-societal-challenges

The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, 28 October 2024 (midnight, CET).

General information for the call for abstracts of the IRSPM conference can be found here: https://www.irspm.org/conference-2025/conferences/call-for-abstracts-1  

For further information please contact the panel chairs.

Dear PSAAR friends,

We are glad to announce the 20th Biennial CIGAR 2025 Conference, which will be held in June 25-27, 2025, in Athens, Greece at the Athens University of Economics and Business (https://cigar-athens.aueb.gr/about/venue) 

The Conference theme is “Envisioning the Public Sector Financial Management of the future: Embedding Accruals, Sustainability and Technology as the new normal”.

Organizing Committee: Sandra Cohen and Sotirios Karatzimas,

As usual, the Conference is combined with the PhD Colloquium that will take place on the 25^th of June while the works of the Conference will take place on 26-27 June 2025.

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Dear PSAAR  friends,

We are pleased to remind you that our EGPA 2024 Conference will take place in Athens, Greece, 3 -6 September 2024. 

The deadline for submission of papers has been extended until 31^st May

The theme of our XII PSG Public Sector Financial Management is:

“PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AS A BANNER FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN THE ERA OF SDGs” 

You are kindly invited to submit your abstracts for the Conference. Please find attached the Call for papers.

KEY DATES: 

✓ Deadline for submission of abstracts/Panel Proposals: May 31, 2024

✓ Deadline for notification to the authors:  June 10, 2024

✓ Deadline for online submission of full papers:  July 26, 2024

 Abstract submissions can be made on https://www.conftool.org/egpa-conference2024/ 

The EGPA 2024 Conference Website is available at: https://iias-iisa.org/egpa-2024-conference/ 

For any questions regarding our PSG in EGPA 2024, please contact the co-chairs of the group:

Marco Bisogno, mbisogno@unisa.it,

Isabel Brusca, ibrusca@unizar.es

Eugenio Caperchione, eugenio.caperchione@unimore.it

Sandra Cohen, scohen@aueb.gr 

Francesca Manes Rossi manes@unina.it

We look forward to welcoming you to Athens in September 2024 for our Annual Conference

Dear PSAAR Friends,

We would like to share a call for chapter proposals to a new Emerald book titled “Co-assessment of the Performance of Public Services: Theoretical perspectives and practical issues” that will be published within the Emerald Studies in Public Service Accounting and Accountability series (tentative deadline: mid-2025). Book editors: Carmela Barbera, Mariafrancesca Sicilia, and Ileana Steccolini.

The book welcomes contributions from different research communities that help enhance current understanding around government-led and citizens-led performance assessment initiatives, adopting different theoretical and methodological approaches, from different contexts.

More details on this Call can be found in the document attached.  

For further information, you can contact Carmela Barbera (carmela.barbera@unibg.it)

Key Dates:

1^st of June 2024: Submission of chapter proposals (1.000 words max)

30^th of November 2024: Chapter submission

1^st of June:  Notification of chapter acceptance 

For more information click here