The Conference on Administrative and Local Government Studies will be held entirely online on 11.-13.11.2020. This year, our topic is Administration, management and communication.

The conference will be held mainly in Finnish, but our first keynote speaker on Thursday Nov 12th, prof. Christoph Demmke, will give his lecture on Benchmarking governments and public administrations in English. More info on page Programme.

The conference organizers are University of Vaasa, Hallinnon Tutkimuksen Seura and Focus Localis ry.

You are able to access the book of abstracts through this link (updated 10.11.2020) or from the pages of the working groups.

We have one bilingual working group, with presentations in Finnish and English: The role of dialogue in regional development.