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EaP program: SDGs for CSOs

3 June 2021 – Ingeborg gave a keynote at the Online Networking Conference ›Dialogue for the Future 2021‹, which was part of the program Expanding Cooperation with Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia (Eastern Partnership Programme, German Foreign Office). The presentation showed the SDGs as a compass for pathways to sustainability, and how they can serve as a framework for cooperation of Civil Society Organisations. [Download the PPT] […]

CEU course: SD and Global Transitions

2 March 2021 – Ingeborg gave a guest lecture in the CEU (Central European University) course SDGT Sustainable Development and Global Transitions, chaired by Prof. Laszlo Pinter. She presented how SDG implementation works in practice in Europe. On the basis of the SDG study for the EP (2019) she gave an overview of Europe’s approach to implementing the SDGs, illustrated the analytic framework for analysing the governance for SDG implementation and illustrations, and presented country highlights.

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First new Beau Lieu Café on 5 April

APR 2023 – On Wednesday 5 April, the first of a new series of high-level talk shows with live band under the name Beau Lieu Cafe will take place, hosted by the Club of Rome EU-Chapter, and co-hosted by PS4SD, from 18:30-20:30 at the Residence Palace (Schumann area). Topic is the report “Earth for All”. This lively talk show will be moderated by former DG Karl Falkenberg and has musical support from the band ‘Time-Tijd’. The three special panel guests on the red sofa are Sandrine Dixson-Declève (Co-President of the Club of Rome International), Kerstin Jorna, Director-General GROW, and Len Ishmael (former ambassador of the Eastern Caribbean States to Belgium and the EU). Registration: https://t.ly/6_zx . You can also just scan this QR code:

This is the first of a series of Beau Lieu Cafés hosted by the Club of Rome EU-Chapter and co-hosted by ps4sd.eu. The second edition will be on 4th May already. […]

Indicator on 17.14.1 on PCSD

MAR 2023 – On Friday 3 March, PS4SD organised an online peer learmning workshop with six EU member states, the European Commission, OECD, UNEP […]

Keynote on Rural Governance

MAR 2023 – Louis Meuleman will present a keynote on 24 March 2023 at a webinar on Governance and Coordination for Strengthening Rural Institutions, […]

Annual ESDN Conference

MAR 2023 – The European Sustainable Development Network ESDN holds its annual conference on 15 & 16 March in Stockholm. Ingeborg Niestroy and Louis […]

CEPA Session New York

MAR 2023 – From 27-31 March, Louis Meuleman will attend, as vice chair, the annual working session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration, at the Un Heqdquarters in New York. […]

New report on PCSD published

A study conducted in 2021 by a PS4SD team, resulting in a thematic report for the European Commission’s EUPACK programme on country knowledge on public administration, was published in December 2022. The study contains an analysis of how the SDG indicator 17.14.1 on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) could be implemented. It has case studies on Finland, Italy, and Romania. Download report. […]

Speaking at OECD in Paris

DEC 2022 – On 5 December 2022, Louis Meuleman and Ingeborg Niestroy presented the project on Mainstreaming sustainability in RIA at a dedicated joint meeting in Paris of the OECD national Focal Points on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development and the OECD Regulatory Policy Committee. Louis was also panelspeaker at the Regulatory Policy Committee, on governance and metagovernance. […]

Working Better With Others

MAR 2023: PS4SD has designed a new online training course for EU officials, which is launched at the EU Policymaking Hub: Working better with others for the Commission/EU priorities. It builds the training on overcoming silo-thinking. The first edition will be held on 9 & 10 March 2023. […]

Metagovernance and SDGs in Japan

DEC 2022 – On 2nd December 2022, Louis Meuleman presented some insights on metagovernance and sustainability with a focus on the environmental aspect, at the IGES annual International Forum on Sustainable Asia-Pacific (ISAP). Japan. […]

Launch Community of Practice on PCSD

NOV 2022 – On 15th November 2022, UNEP launched in cooperation with OECD a global Community of Practice on the SDG indicator 17.14.1 on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD). Louis Meuleman gave a keynote speech (download presentation). […]

Guest lecture Metagovernance in Romania

NOV 2022 – On 24th November, Louis Meuleman gave an online guest lecture on ‘Metagovernance for Sustainability: Guidance for an Unpredictable World’ at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. […]

Project Peer to Peer for Sustainability in Impact Assessment

NOV 2022 – On 8th November, the 4th online peer learning workshop took place of the PS4SD project Peer to Peer for Sustainability in Impact Assessment. With five excellent speakers, and 54 participants registered from 21 EU member states, the European Commission and the OECD, the four-hour workshop was full of energy. The next workshop is already planned for 7th December 2022. More info: see the project page on this website, or send an email to info@ps4sd.eu. […]

SDG Training in Cyprus

NOV 2022 – From 21-25 November, Louis Meuleman was training civil servants of the national government of Cyprus on aspects of sustainable development related to the upcoming national SDG Action Plan of the country. The training week was part of the UNITAR-led project supporting Cyprus with the preparation of the Action Plan. […]

Election as Vice-Chair EEA

On 26.10.2022, the members of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen have elected Louis Meuleman as one of the two vice chairs of the Comittee. […]

Sust. Development Transformation Forum 2022 in Incheon

OCT 2022 – From 25-28 October, UNOSD organised its annual Sustainable Development Transformation Forum in Incheon, Republic of Korea. Louis Meuleman spoke online at this hybrid conference, in two sessions. See programme and more information. […]

Managing the Implementation of the SDGs

The report ‘Managing the Implementation of the SDGs’ by Ingeborg Niestroy and Louis Meuleman was published online recently by the European Commission’s DG REFORM. Originally made in 2020 and with some additions in 2021, the report introduces why and how the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals are essential for the quality of public administration and governance. Download the report here. […]

Navigating the Narrows: Strategies for SDG Governance

Louis Meuleman and Ingeborg Niestroy are the guest editors of a Special Issue of the Journal Sustainability, to be published after the summer of 2023. The theme is about strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to strategic governance for sustainable development, such as strategic planning, strategy as a learning process, and strategising for trade-offs and synergies in different (supranational, national, or subnational) contexts. More information and how to contribute can be found here. […]

Public Administration for the Sustainable Future of our Societies

SEP 2022: The annual conference of the European Group for Public Administration of IIAS gathered on 6-9 September in Lisbon, on “Public Administration for the Sustainable Future of our Societies”, with Louis Meuleman as rapporteur on sustainability. Read his reflections as published in IIAS Insights online. […]

Public Administration for the Sustainable Future of our Societies

The annual conference of public administration scholars united in the European Group for Public Administration of IIAS took place on 6-9 September in Lisbon. With the general topic on the challenges sustainability poses for public administration, Louis Meuleman was tasked as ‘shadow rapporteur’ of the plenary sessions. A report will be ready soon. […]

Magic Numbers? Why the Politics of Indices Are a Problem Rather Than a Solution

JULY 2022 – In a critical guest article published online by IISD, Paul Jackson and Louis Meuleman point at the risks of measuring progress on complex issues such as the SDGs, though single numbers, as in an index. […]

Public administration, institutions, and governance for evidence-informed policymaking

JULY 2022 – In the report “Constructing assessment indicator dashboards for evidence-informed policymaking: Insights from the perspective of public administration, institutions, and governance”, Ingeborg Niestroy discusses the effectiveness of evidence-informed policymaking mechanisms from the perspective of policymakers, using the lenses of public administration, public management and (sustainability) governance. The report was prepared for the European Commission’s Joint Research Center and published online on 19 July 2022. It contains substantial input from Louis Meuleman. […]

Mainstreaming SDGs in Regulatory Impact Assessment: report published

From December 2021 until July 2022, thirteen (and ultimately seventeen) EU Member States, the European Commission and the OECD participated in a dynamic and highly interactive project aiming at mainstreaming the SDGs into RIA procedures. On 05.09.2022, Germany decided to finance an extension of the project, until 1st March 2023.

The report of the first phase of this project is available for download here:

Download Part 1. Main Report

Download Part 2. Workshop Reports

Download Project Summary

What about the governance of evidence-informed policymaking?

JULY 2022 – How can policymakers make the best of the science they are offered to prepare new policies and laws? This question, focusing on the ‘demand’ side of science-policy-society relations, is less often asked than how the ‘supply’ side can be improved. Louis Meuleman argues in a Blog written for and published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, that the demand side needs to be taken more into account, and that a dedicated governance framework would definitely support this. The Blog builds on a report Ingeborg Niestroy wrote for the JRC. […]

HLPF VNR Lab on institutional arrangements

JULY 2022 – At the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on the SDGs in July, the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government of UN DESA organised on 15 July an online Voluntary National Review (VNR) Lab entitled: Looking forward: Recent innovations in institutional arrangements for SDG implementation. As panelist, Louis Meuleman presented some innovative practices, among others the mainstreaming of SDGs in Regulatory Impact Assessments.

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Final Event P2P for SDGs in RIA

JUNE 2022 – On 14th June, the (hybrid) final event of the first phase of the project on Peer to Peer for mainstreaming SDGs in Regulatory Impact Asssessment, financed with a grant from the German Federal Environment Ministry, had participants from 16 EU member states, the European Commission and the OECD. The results of the project, and ideas for follow-up, will be presented at the Council Working Party on the 2030 Agenda, under the Czech EU Presidency.

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Launch of SDG Action Plan of Romania

JUNE 2022 – On 23 June, the Government of Romania proudly presented in Bucharest its new SDG Action Plan that will help implementing the National Sustainable Development Plan. During a lively launch conference, Louis Meuleman gave a speech on the governance dimension of challenges ahead. […]

Sustainable and carbon-neutral public administration in Europe

MAY 2022 – Louis Meuleman and Ingeborg Niestroy were both invited to speak at a European Online-Conference on 30 May 2022, at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, on Sustainable and carbon-neutral public administration in Europe – how can practitioners, scholars and national schools of public administration support each other’s progress?

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21st Session CEPA in New York

APR 2022 – From 4-8 April 2022, the 21st Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration took place at the UN Head Quarters in New York. Louis Meuleman was as CEPA Bureau member involved in the preparations and will participate. See agenda and documents.

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Metagovernance for a sustainable ocean future

MAR 2022 – On 23rd March 2022, Louis Meuleman spoke about how metagovernance could play a role in global governance for oceans, at an event in the context of the Monaco Ocean Week.

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UN CEPA papers now online

The United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) held its twenty-first session from 4 to 8 April 2022 under the overall theme of “Transforming institutions and governance to build forward better towards 2030.” Louis Meuleman participated as CEPA member and was reconfirmed as vice chair. The programme and the official session papers are online. Also the video registrations of all sessions are available online. […]