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EDITORIAL
Soane
Another year of the new normal has elapsed. It was a Sahraoui, PhD.
mixture of joy and sorrow. Sorrow rst for the loss of our dear
colleague Johanna Nurmi from Finland, EGPA steering
committee member and long-term associate of our Director General of the
network. She will be fondly remembered. Sorrow also for International Institute of
the number of other people whose lives have been Administrative Sciences (IIAS)
disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Our heartfelt
condolences to the family and friends of Johanna
(ourselves included) and our most sincere solidarity with all
of those aficted by the Coronavirus crisis. The new normal was a major impetus for continuing to
solidify our presence and value-add with our members.
Despite these unhappy events, IIAS and its entities Our accreditation services picked up signicantly under
continue to be resilient during these trying times. As
the new ICAPA organisation. A number of institutions are in
expected, 2021 was better than 2020, when we were the pipeline for being accredited and many more have
taken by surprise by the pandemic surge. While in 2020 we expressed an interest in doing so. We had a number of
had to cancel all our events and hold them online on an
manuscripts published under the Palgrave series and the
experimental basis, in 2021, we had a joint online IASIA/IIAS new IIAS Public Governance series. While the former is well
conference and a hybrid EGPA 2021 conference, held in established and highly sought after, the latter is quickly
Brussels. Both were successful on all counts. First, we were attracting interest with two manuscripts already published
able to hold a full-edged online conference with a and another two currently under review. Open Access is
diverse programme and signicant participation. It was not limited to our book series, however, but includes a
proof that the online conference model was a viable whole new system of channeling conference papers to
alternative to the conventional onsite model when the
partner journals along with our own Open Access Journal
latter was not feasible. Moreover, the EGPA 2021 hybrid (Developments in Administration -DinA), which has been
model with one third of participants onsite and two thirds relaunched this year. In 2021, we were able to maintain a
online allowed us to experiment successfully with the
regular stream of consulting revenue that allowed us to
hybrid model. Again, it was a remarkable success both keep our nancial numbers positive for the year.
programme-wise and nancially.
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