In September 2024 KSAP started implementing a project titled "KSAP inspires!". As part of the project, we invite KSAP students and graduates, public administration employees and members of KSAP community to meet at KSAP the experts and outstanding personalities from the world of administration, politics, culture, business, from Poland and abroad.

Objective of the project

We want KSAP to become a center for inspiring discussions on public affairs, a place where dialogue takes place and topics important for administration are discussed. The meetings at KSAP will serve to integrate the public administration community, to provide a space for exchanging experiences and good practices, and to build networks.

KSAP inspires!

Addresses of the project

The project is targeted at KSAP students and graduates, all public administration employees interested in innovations and in a different look at already known issues and phenomena.

Form of meetings

Meetings are held once a month, at 16:30 – 18:30, in the form of a 20-minute inspiring lecture, followed by a moderated discussion. The speeches are recorded and available post factum on the KSAP website, with the possibility of listening at any time. Ad hoc meetings are also proposed to KSAP audience.

Schedule of meetings:

1. The first meeting was held on 26 September 2024. The title was “Different generations in administration – together or separately?” Tadeusz Reimus, practicing integrative psychotherapist, KSAP consultant and trainer, presented the challenges, but also the opportunities for cooperation between employees of many generations in public administration institutions. Each generation is brought up in different conditions, has different needs and different approaches to work and life. Managing generational diversity in every organization is a big challenge and requires a deep understanding and respect for the unique characteristics, experiences, values ​​and expectations of each generation.

2. Second meeting (ad hoc meeting) was organized on 15 October 2024 , entitled “Good governance in the interconnected world”. Discussion with KSAP guest, David Zapolsky, Vice President for Global Public Policy and General Counsel (Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy & General Counsel), representing Amazon - one of the largest companies in the world, focused on how to construct a mission, vision and organizational strategy in the context of implementing technological innovations and ethical management. How to reconcile the introduction of innovations, especially technological ones, and responsible management? How can organizations develop new products and services while ensuring ethical standards and compliance with the law?

3. The third meeting, on 22 October 2024 , was devoted to the topic of knowledge management in the public sector: strategies and practices. Professor Paweł Wyrozębski from the Warsaw School of Economics helped us to understand how to properly design a knowledge management system and, together with the participants, tried to find the answer to the question whether or why it is worth using a systemic approach to knowledge management. Professor Wyrozębski also presented examples of solutions and good practices used in public institutions in Poland and around the world, showing how knowledge management can support the development and innovation of the public sector.

4.  The meeting on 19 November 2024 , was titled „The diplomacy in the modern world. How can it be effective and how can every official find his way in it?”. The ambassador Tomasz Orlowski talked about diplomacy understood as a set of professional skills, work methods and techniques for conducting international contacts, which are used not only by diplomats. Traditional diplomacy, seen as discreet conversations in the privacy of offices, gave way throughout the 20th century to public diplomacy, where governments were persuading societies to follow their foreign policies. In the 21st century, diplomacy goes a step further to transform into social diplomacy, which makes the needs and expectations of public opinion the goal of policy. Diplomacy without diplomats is a formula in which more and more people (not only Foreign Affairs officials) participate in international contacts, and the skills they have developed in diplomacy become the best form them.

5.  The meeting on 12 December 2024 , with Elżbieta Bieńkowska (KSAP graduate, former EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, Industry and Entrepreneurship, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development and Infrastructure) is entitled „Poland in the EU - how to strengthen its position and maintain the unity of the Union? Common market, competitiveness, budget”.

   On January 1, 2025, Poland will take over the six-month presidency of the EU Council. As part of the Presidency, we will host nearly 400 councils, meetings and conferences with the participation of representatives of 27 countries. The Presidency of the EU Council is held in a rotation system by all member states for 6 months each. Representatives of the country holding the Presidency of the EU Council, both at the ministerial and expert level, are responsible for setting the agenda of meetings of individual bodies of the EU Council and conducting negotiations among the member states. This is a chance for us to present the Polish point of view on issues important to the EU. How to strengthen your position while respecting the value of the unity of the Union? How to formulate the Polish position so that it provides support and inspiration for achieving common goals in the EU?

   The common market ensures the free movement of goods, services, capital and people. It makes everyday life easier, stimulates economic growth and stimulates innovation. How to increase the resilience of the single market? How important is its stability? What can we as Poland do in this regard during the presidency?

   How should the Polish administration be prepared to fulfill the obligations arising from the presidency? What competences should Polish officials have? What are the tasks of leaders, experts, task and process coordinators?