Partnerships and Best Practices

Partnerships

The Canada School of Public Service's Best Practices Program is unique in its focus on top priorities for improving public service management and its full integration into learning and development programs. The School partners with policy authorities, academia, and other external players to bring best practices into learning programs as efficiently as possible. Partnering enables the School to benefit from the contributions of others, build organizational capacity, avoid duplication and identify potential synergies.

• Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality 2008-2013
• Information for Academics

University Relations

The School's University Relations Strategy is aimed at strengthening linkages between the federal public service and Canadian universities to ensure that the public service has access to cutting-edge ideas and research, a new generation of scholars and new employees well-educated in modern public management.

The School implements the University Relations Strategy by:

• offering programs that provide executives (EX-01 and above or similar responsibility) with learning and development opportunities at universities;
• organizing events that engage academics on key public management issues;
• supporting public service leaders actively working with universities;
• catalyzing and aligning academic research to federal public service priorities;
• undertaking projects with universities to advance shared objectives; and
• facilitating Public Service Renewal, branding and recruitment.

Development Programs

1. Deputy Minister University Champion Program
2. Public Servant-in-Residence Program
3. Fulbright-Government of Canada Mid-Career Professional Program
4. Students Providing Aligned Research and Knowledge (SPARK) Program

Annual Events

• John L. Manion Lecture
  This annual lecture, named in honour of John L. Manion, the first Principal of the Canadian Centre for Management Development (the predecessor to the Canada School of Public Service), is delivered by a leading Canadian or international expert and focuses on a cutting-edge public policy or public management issue which affects the professional roles and responsibilities of federal public servants.
• University-Public Service Symposium
  The University-Public Service Symposium is designed to offer an opportunity for professors and researchers specializing in, or interested in, public management from universities across the country to learn about recent management developments in the Canadian Public Service. It also offers an opportunity for specialists from various fields of management, public and business administration, and political science to meet and exchange views with one another and with senior public service managers on the issues and challenges facing the Public Service of Canada.

Contact Information

For more information please email: pbp-ppe@csps-efpc.gc.ca