SYNERGIA
A network for cooperation and exchange of experience between high-level officials from Central and Eastern Europe
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Updated regulations
We kindly inform that for the purposes of realization of SYNERGIA project, Project Regulations in the event of a change of a place of employment taken up by the Representative of a Participant from Poland in another institution not involved in the Project, have been updated.
Regulations are available on SYNERGIA website here: ABOUT – Project Regulations
Date of publication: December 7th 2020
5 online session of SYNERGIA - December 14th and 21st, 2020
The upcoming session of SYNERGIA, scheduled for December 14th and 21st, 2020 will be held in online form.
The decision to organize the 5th SYNERGIA session in online form was taken upon analysis of current epidemiological situation in Europe and its probable development in the following months, as well as according to the availability of foreign lecturers.
On December 14th and December 21st, trainings will be conducted on ZOOM platform.
The dates of the 5th training session as part of the first edition of the project are available on SYNERGIA website here: PROGRAMME – Session schedule
The epidemiological risk is assessed before each session by the Steering Committee with the participation of Project Partners and a representative of foreign professors.
Date of publication: December 3rd 2020
SYNERGIA 4th training session is completed
4th session as part of the 1st edition of the SYNERGIA project has already taken place. The session was attended by high-representatives of public administration institutions from Poland, Bulgaria, Latvia and Hungary.
I st edition – 4th Latvian – Polish session
On November, 23-25, the 4th session of Ist SYNERGIA edition took place.
Programme
The session program included activities in the following thematic areas:
- managing of communication
- effective negotiations
- change management
- knowledge management
The 1st day of the session was conducted by SYNERGIA Partner from Latvia, the Latvian School of Public Administration (LSPA). Partner’s expert, Žanete Drone run a training sessions on change management.
The training sessions within the next two days were conducted by professors from IESE Business School, University of Navarra: prof. Massimo Maoret and prof. Yago de la Cierva.
The form of the session
Due to the current epidemiological situation in Europe, the 4th session was run online. Participants from Poland, Bulgaria, Latvia and Hungary participated in interactive meetings carried out on special e-learning training platforms in MS TEAMS and ZOOM.
Participants worked in workshop groups, analyzing case studies in the areas covered by the program.
Participants’ impressions
SYNERGIA participants highly appreciate the case study method developed by Harvard Business School (HBS) and used in SYNERGIA.
The famous HBS case study method combines the use of management knowledge with the improvement of soft skills. In the face of difficult decisions, that are needed to be taken under time pressure and with limited access to information, the HBS case study method recreates the real professional situations in which participants of such project as SYNERGIA find themselves in. Unlike lectures, it is a method based on participants’ experience and their genuine commitment to the search for a solution to a given problem. The method relies on debate, discussion and disagreement. One of its main results is that the participants do not receive a ready pattern or scheme for their problem, but they develop possible scenarios of problem solving on their own. Moreover, the method promotes a principle that there is no right and only solution to one problem. On the contrary, it leads to a reflection that what constitutes an essential skill of an effective leader, is the ability to predict various consequences of the decisions made.
Harvard Business School Professor C. Roland (Chris) Christensen, one of the founders of the field of business strategy and the world’s leading authority on case method teaching, described this method as the art of managing uncertainty.
The use of the HBS case study method in SYNERGIA promotes this difficult yet useful skill in managing institutions in public administration.
For more about the Harvard Business School case method check this link: www.hbs.edu/teaching/case-method
Date of publication: December 2nd 2020
Update of the schedule of the 1st edition
The Steering Committee decided to change the schedule for the implementation of the session planned for February 2021.
Having analised the current epidemiological situation and its probable development in the following months, as well astaking into account a big challenge for participants to take active part in a 5-day online session (8 hours a day), the Steering Committee decided to change the schedule for the implementation of the session planned for February 2021.
Detailed information is available here: PROGRAMME – Session schedule
According to the availability of foreign lecturers the next sessions will be organised as follows:
- 14 December 2020, 11:30 – 17:00 EET – 6 hours
- 21 December 2020, 15:00 – 17:00 EET – 2
- 14 January 2021 – 6 hours+ 2 hours consultations
- 8-10 February 2021 – the last day
We are also planning an additional session under the project, which will be organized after the epidemiological situation has stabilized, in spring 2021. The session will be carried out in one of the partner countries (Latvia, Hungary or Bulgaria).
Date of publication: November 26th 2020