Academy of Public Administration (Belarus)

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The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus carries out a complete educational course of managerial personnel training. Established in 1991, the Academy has acquired the status of a presidential institution and is considered to be the leading state higher educational establishment in the system of training, retraining and requalification of managerial personnel.

Academy teaching staff include 155 Doctors of Science and PhD holders. Ministers and heads of governmental structures, key specialists of industrial enterprises and institutions, prominent Belarusian scholars, statesmen and foreign specialists also take part in the educational process.

Each year more than 6000 students, trainees and post-graduate students attend courses at the Academy. About 4500 civil servants also take their upgrading courses here.

Every year the Academy members publish hundreds of research papers, dozens of monographs and teaching aids. The Academy pays close attention to the research work of students, young scientists. There is a Student Scientific Association and a Council of Young Scientists. The Academy has established a Council on theses defense for the Doctor of Economics degree.

The Academy of Public Administration organizes traditional international and national scientific conferences such as:

Information Resources Management, Public Administration (conference of young scientists), Theoretical, Methodological and Applied Aspects of the Public Administration in Belarus and Abroad (students' conference). The Academy of Public Administration publishes "Research Papers of the Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus", the journal Problems of Management. Both publications are on the list of the scientific periodicals of the Republic of Belarus that publish the results of thesis researches.

The Centre was formed to promote Academy's international links and mutually beneficial contacts with related national and foreign educational and research establishments on the basis of bilateral and multilateral agreements and running programmes on cooperation aimed at task solution in managerial personnel training and re-qualification.

The Centre promotes Academy's cooperation with its partner institutions:

•  Armenia – Academy of Public Administration of Armenia
•  Azerbaijan – Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
•  Bulgaria – Foundation “Slavyane”
•  China – China National School of Administration
•  Cuba – Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
•  Czech Republic – College of Social and Administrative Affairs
•  Germany – Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences
•  Kazakhstan:
  • Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Economic Research Institute
•  Kyrgyzstan – Academy of Management under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic
•  Lithuania – Lithuanian Institute of Public Administration
•  Moldova – Academy of Public Administration by President's Office of the Republic of Moldova
•  Poland – Higher School of Management
•  Russia:
  • Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the MFA of Russia
  • Volga-Vyatka Academy of Civil Service
  • Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs
  • Moscow City Government University of Management
  • Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation
  • Moscow Institute of Economics, Management and Law
  • Murmansk branch of North West Academy of Public Administration
  • Russian Customs Academy
  • North-West Academy of Public Administration
  • Orlov Regional Academy of Civil Service, Astrakhan State University
•  Singapore – Singapore Civil Service College
•  Ukraine:
  • National Academy of Public Administration under the Office of the President of Ukraine
  • Odessa Regional Institute of Public Administration
  • Kharkiv Regional Institute of Public Administration
  • Khmelnitsky University of Management and Law
•  Uzbekistan – Academy of State and Social Construction under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
•  Venezuela – School of Planning of Ministry of Planning and Development of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
•  Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration

37 agreements have been signed between the Academy and its partner institutions.[1]

The Centre actively supports student and faculty exchange.

The Centre for International Cooperation and Educational Programmes provides assistance in organizing meetings between Academy's governing body and prominent international figures, lectures by representatives of foreign missions and international organizations held both for teaching staff and students. The Academy was visited by the heads of diplomatic legations from  Russia,  Kazakhstan,  Ukraine,  China,  Cuba,  Venezuela,  Turkey,  India,  UK,  France,  South Korea,  Israel,  Poland,  Germany,  Iran,  Lithuania,  Moldova,  Turkmenistan,  Estonia and also by UNDP Resident Representative in Belarus.[2]

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• "Official site of Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus".
• "International Student Information". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
• "The scientifically-practical journal of Academy "Проблемы управления" (Problems of Management)".
• "Archive of the periodical of Academy of the newspaper "Зеркало" (The Mirror)". Archived from the original on 2010-05-18. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
• "Museum exhibition of the Academy of Public Administration". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
• "President Visits the Academy of Public Administration". Archived from the original on 2010-12-22.

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