General Information

The public management institute (in Dutch : Instituut voor de Overheid) is an independant and self-supporting academic institution . The institute excists in its present form since 1998 . Its predecessors however date back to teh 1960s, when the first training sessions in managemnt were held for senior civil servants . The Public management institute was integrated in the Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Political Science). In 1973 , when a distinction was made between public and private management training programs . In the 1960s ,the fundamental research (Ph.DS). The 1990s saw an increase in research projects as a result of programs commissioned by the federal and Flemish governments. The approximately 30 staff of the Public management institute have different academic backgrounds such as public administration , business administration ,economics ,sociology , political science ,psychology and law.