This year's ReSPA SeasonalSchool aims to provide to the Western Balkan Public Administration teams meet and connect online, collaborate across silos, share ideas, and discuss current and future issues public administration is trying to tackle in particularly in the extraordinary situations..

COVID-19 has catapulted digital transformation in public service delivery globally. It has become clear the world needs to be using technology and digital tools to solve the large number of challenges we're facing.  Through our COVID-19 Western Balkan Digital Collaborative 2020 online platform, which we kicked off at the beginning of April 2020, we have been collecting insights, needs and themes that our Western Balkan teams have deemed as of utmost value and interest to discuss, learn, share and collaborate on. Based on those inputs we are focusing this year's ReSPA Seasonal School on the following modules and topics: Strengths Finder, Human Ware, Human-Centred Change Management, Agile, Iterative Methodologies & Mindset, Product & Quality Management, Resilience & Wellbeing, Remote teams, Crisis Communication, Data Science & Journalism. 

Initially scheduled to take place in Montenegro, ReSPA Seasonal School on Rapid Innovation Lab 2020 will be organized through online sessions from 28 September until 2 October 2020 with additional two-day preparatory activities (two 3 hour webinars) which will be organized in the week 14th -18 September 2020 (TBC).

Please watch the video teasers prepared by the organizers and experts revealing what you may expect both in the domain of content and form:

About Seasonal School on Rapid Innovation Lab 2020 Goran Pastrovic ReSPA Programme Manager

Rapid Innovation Lab and Crisis communication Tamara Srzentic Expert in Digital Transformation and Innovation in PA
Deputy Director, Office of innovation at California Health and Human Service agency (CHHS)
Sacramento, California

Designathon and Digitalisation of Public Administration Vladimir Vulic Senior Expert in Digital Transformation and Designation, Co-Founder of Digitalizuj.me
Podgorica, Montenegro

StrenghtsFinder Adrian Ruiz Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and Executive Director of Youth Development Network
Sacramento, California

Change management and innovation in Public Administration Dimis Michaelides Senior Expert in Innovation in Public Administration; Author, speaker, Consultant on Leadership, Creativity and Innovation
Nicosia, Cyprus

Change management and Design thinking methodology Judy Brown Co-founder and Chief Impact Officer, CivicMakers
San Francisco, California

Agile Management and Wellbeing in Public Administration Tamara Dimitrijevic Psychologist, People Manager and Business Coach
Belgrade, Serbia

Quality Management in Public Administration and Public Services Tihana Puzic Senior Expert in Quality Management
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina