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The scientific research, the capacity building programs and the educational activities are supported by administrative staff of the department. The staff is headed by the manager of the department.
Scientific staff can call upon the management unit for a wide range of support functions :

• Pre- and post-award support for funding proposals: budget preparation, budget follow up, preparation of financial audits
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This research group has his main focus of interest on the public sector in general, and the different possible perspectives of studying this subject: from a managments view, from the ICT-perspective, e-governement, local authorities ... All these views on the public sector are supported by the multi-dsiciplinary composition of this research unit.

Careers and public personnel systems; task profiles and function description of the employees in Belgian medium-sized cities : study and development of standards for personnel; state of the art of personnel and finance in Belgian municipalities. Auditing and organizational analysis in public agencies and non-profit organizations; personnel policy-personnel management and human resources (career development, career planning) ; the organization ...

The Policy Management group carries out economic research on public policy. The group focuses on the efficiency and effectiveness of government interventions by carrying out cost-effectiveness analyses and cost-benefit analyses. Furthermore, research is performed on the impact of the regulatory quality (ease of requesting permits, administrative burdens,...) on the ease of doing business in Europe.

The department hosts the Master in Public Health, part of the Postgraduate Courses in Tropical Medicine and a course on Qualitative and Mixed Methods in international health research and several other short courses.

For the coordination of all educational activities, the department has appointed an educational coordinator, course coordinators and an expert in e-learning.