The Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC) is a network of influential policy researchers from the United States and Europe who promote education and training in the field of public policy and administration. We are dedicated to promoting transatlantic understanding and to providing opportunities for researchers, students and our members to work together in a variety of ways on the pressing public policy issues facing Europe and North America. Each year we organize a colloquium of the consortium membership and guests that focuses on a specific issue of particular concern to the Transatlantic Agenda. We are self-financed, with the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University providing the Secretariat.
Establishing cooperative programs in higher education and training
TPC Conference Publications
The Role of Governments and Private Actors in Key Policy Areas
Editors: Eberhard Bohne, Charlie Karlsson (2010)
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Editors: Eberhard Bohne, Charlie Karlsson (2010)
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“Migration, Entrepreneurship and Participation, and Public Policy”
June 9 - 10, 2017
Stockholm, Sweden @ Hotel C Stockholm
Steering Committee
- Dr. Sameeksha Desai (Co-Chair)
- Dr. Andreas Knorr (Co-Chair)
- Dr. David Audretsch
- Dr. Charles Bonser
- Dr. Sameeksha Desai
- Dr. Johan Eklund
We believe that domestically focused applied policy research and training organizations often lack international sensitivity and exposure, thereby limiting the range of policy competence; and that policies implemented in other countries have an impact on domestic policy options.
We recognize the members of the Consortium have much to contribute to public knowledge about these issues, and much to learn and gain from the exchange of information and interactions with each other.
We desire to establish a more formal basis for the conduct of cooperative activities in tranatlantic public policy education and research.
We strive for important contributions, on both sides of the Atlantic, to public policy/management education and rational discourse on the major policy issues of the day.
- Establish ties of friendship and professional cooperation for the purpose of promoting mutual understanding of the crucial transatlantic public policy issues facing our societies.
- Improve our collective abilities to analyze, arrive at, and implement these public policy choices.
- Inventory the research interests of the members and to provide an opportunity for collaborative research activities; the exchange of pedagogical information and techniques in public policy/management education; joint conferences; and joint participation in seminars and academic meetings.
- Exchange information on data sets, methodology, and concepts.
- Assist each other, where needed and possible, in the location and placement of short term international internship assignments for students of the Consortium members.
- Provide the opportunity for faculty, staff, and student exchanges, where such exchanges would be in the joint interests of the participating members.
Following two informal Consortium gatherings in 1997 and 1998, the TPC was formed officially in May of 2000 as a network of 36 North American and European higher education institutions. For over a decade, only those appointed by their home institution could be directly involved in the activities of the Consortium and membership belonged to the institution, not the individual. Attendance at all TPC-sponsored events was by invitation only and was restricted to member institutions.
In order to foster a lively and growing interchange of views, and to accommodate expanded interest in our network, in 2013 the Steering Committee voted to introduce an individual membership component to our organization. We are now comprised entirely of individual members.
2015, June 10 - 12: Budapest, Hungary
Hosted by Hungarian National University of Public Service University
Rethinking Public Governance
2014, June 22 - 24: Bloomington, Indiana
Hosted by School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Transatlantic Perspectives on Innovation in Multiple Systems
2013, May 30 - 31: The Hague, the Netherlands
Hosted by Universities of Delft, Leiden, and Erasmus
Transatlantic Perspectives in Public Affairs: Technology, Safety, Security
2009, May 28 - 30: Jönköping, Sweden
Hosted by the International Business School, Jönköping University
Repositioning Europe and America for Growth: Policy Frameworks for Innovative and Competitive Societies
2008, June 1 - 3: Erfurt, Germany
Hosted by Erfurt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt
Public Policy for Knowledge Society
2007, September 9 - 11: Bloomington, Indiana
Hosted by School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Adapting Universities to a Global Society – A Transatlantic Perspective
2006, June 4 - 6: Warsaw, Poland
Hosted by Polish Institute of International Affairs
Security and Transatlantic Relations
2005, May 22 - 24: Madrid, Spain
Hosted by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Business Meeting
2004, September 9 - 12: Austin, Texas
Hosted by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
The End of Sovereignty? A Transatlantic Perspective.
2003, June 16 - 18: Speyer, Germany
Hosted by the German School of Administrative Sciences
Transatlantic Perspectives on Liberalization and Democratic Governance
2002, June 6 - 7: Paris, France
Hosted by the Ecole National d’Administration
Business Meeting
2001, September 20 - 22: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hosted by the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Ethics, Accountability, and Social Responsibility
2000, May 23 - 26: Maastricht, Netherlands
Hosted by the European Institute for Public Administration
Globalization and Regionalization – A Paradoxical Challenge for Public Policy
1998, September 30 - October 2: Bloomington, Indiana
Hosted by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Globalization and the Environment
1997, May 27 - 28: Paris, France
Hosted by Ecole National d’Administration
Development and Security Issues for the EU and the US in the 21st Century and The Next Generation of World Trade Issues
Our individual membership continues to grow as new researchers have been recommended to our leadership. There are no fees associated with individual membership in the TPC, but we expect members will participate in the conferences and other TPC activities, as they are able.
If you would like more information on joining the TPC, please contact us.