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, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

Isabel Brusca, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Eugenio Caperchione, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Sandra Cohen, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Francesca Manes Rossi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view 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 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view 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 

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Dear Psaar friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the call for papers for a special issue (SI) under the theme “Digitalization, Sustainaibility and Public Sector Value Creation: New Perspectives under the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Polar Star” in the International Journal of Public Administration.

The Guest editors of the SI are Sandro Brunelli, Giuseppe Nicolò, Ferdinando Di Carlo and Camilla Falivena.

To foster wide participation from scholars active in these fields, a special track of the next Spring workshop of the EGPA Permanent Study group XII – Public Sector Financial Management – that will be held in Matera (Italy) on 9th and 10th May 2024 – will be dedicated to testing and discussing early-stage research and related ideas for those interested in submitting for the special issue.

The key dates are listed below:

1st February 2024 – Abstract submission to the EGPA PSG XII workshop special track (please specify in the proposal that is for the special track on digitalization, sustainability and value creation);
15th April 2024 – Full paper submission to the EGPA PSG XII workshop;
9th and 10th May 2024 - EGPA PSG XII workshop;
1st November 2024 – Proposal due;
15th November 2024 – Decisions on the proposal;
15th April 2025 - Paper submission to the journal for peer review
For inquiries and further information please contact the guest editors directly at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For the call for papers click here:

Dear Psaar friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the call for papers for a Special Issue (SI) under the theme “Public sector entities building a more sustainable world: managing, measuring and informing on the SDGs” in Public Money and Management. 

The Guest editors of the SI are:

Francesca Manes Rossi, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy

Patria De Lancer Julnes, University of New Mexico, USA

Annamaria Zampella, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy

Research may touch on—but should not necessarily be limited to—the following topics:

• SDG reporting practices and experiences.
• SDG budgeting and green budgeting.
• Performance management in support of SDGs.
• Digitalization as a challenge for communication on SDGs.
• Experiences in participatory budgeting oriented to SDGs.
• Artificial Intelligence challenges and opportunities in managing SDGs.

The deadline for submission of research articles via the PMM online platform is 31 March 2024. The deadline for debate and new development articles is 31 May 2024.

Contact Francesca Manes Rossi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for questions about the theme.

For the call for papers https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/public-sector-entities-building-sustainable-world/