The City of Rijeka carried out a design experiment to explore new ways to involve citizens in the design and implementation of the City of Rijeka Local Partnership Program (RPLP). RPLP has been identified as the most appropriate case to encourage further co-creation with citizens. Namely, since 2005, 106 projects have been implemented within this […]
The Faculty of Public Administration University of Ljubljana and Span Ltd have developed the Co-Gov toolkit, which provides integrated support to public organisations in implementing co-creation. The toolkit consists of four tools tackling different aspects related to co-creation: 1) the Co-Ready tool supports the assessment of organisational readiness for co-creation; 2) the Co-Serve tool supports […]
The COGOV project explores how strategic management best enables managers and professionals in the public sector to exploit the drivers – and overcome the barriers – to the co-creation of innovative public value outcomes. COVID-19 provided COGOV with a further puzzle: To what extent can co-creation help the post-pandemic recovery in the short and medium […]
Leading academic Professor Jacob Torfing, Roskilde University, Denmark gave a fascinating presentation at a virtual seminar organised by Cardiff University on 22nd April. He provided some of the findings from COGOV, a 4-year EU funded research project examining co-creation and co-production in the public sector in 6 European Countries (UK, Denmark, Slovenia, France, The Netherlands […]
Public value as strategic management Public value is one of those notions that has become part of the lexicon of key terms in public administration. It is also an essentially contested term – everyone has a different interpretation (Rhodes & Wanna, 2007; Rutgers, 2015). In this blog post, I view public value as a strategic […]