Professor Ewan Ferlie, Professor of Public Services Management at King’s Business School, has secured a significant grant from the European Commission Research Executive Agency, totalling over EUR 4.5 million, to undertake a major research project.

Entitled “Co Production and Co Governance: Strategic Management, Public Value and Co Creation in the Renewal of Public Agencies across Europe”, the grant has been awarded to a consortium of ten institutions, including King’s Business School, University of Northumbria at Newcastle (the coordinating partner), Cardiff University, the Open University and other European institutions.

The project is a pan-European collaboration of academic and policy partners and aims to develop a better understanding of the organisation and management of European public administrations, in a bid to improve public governance, downwards facing models of strategic management and stronger citizens’ participation.

Professor Ferlie said, “Being part of a large pan-European project that has real implications for creating more participative forms of public administration across Europe highlights the importance – and real-world relevance – of our research.”

The project launched on 1 May and will run until November 2021.