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Lise H. Rykkja and Line M. Sørsdal (University of Bergen) have contributed to a joint policy brief called “The Co-Creation Compass: Creating Public Value Together: From Research to Action” from TROPICO and our four sister projects: Understanding Value Co-Creation in Public Services for Transforming Public Administrations (Co-VAL); Co-Production and Co-Governance: Strategic Management, Public Value and…

Collaboration is useful to address complex social problems, such as long–term unemployment. However, collaboration across organisational boundaries can also cause new and fuzzy accountability lines. This means that it can be hampered by excessive accountability demands, and that placing responsibility when collaborative actions go wrong might be difficult. On this background, the overall aim of the TROPICO Work Package 8: Effects of Collaboration…

  Transforming a seminar into a webinar is about more than just switching two letters and installing Zoom. As the shift to a digital format swept over many of the meetings and conferences held in 2020/2021, a trend especially relevant for international arrangements and networks, we had to change our international 2020 summit in Antwerp,…

After the 2008 financial crisis and a period of austerity, local councils in England have considered various ways to change how they manage and deliver services to cope with budget cuts. The UK Government even put together an ‘idiot’s guide’ to making sensible savings in local government by outlining ‘50 ways to save’. This all…