Organisation

The European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA) was founded in 1999 by a group of European universities, to develop and maintain a system for the voluntary accreditation of academic public administration programmes in higher education. It has since evaluated programmes in a wide variety of countries.

Until 2010, the programmes were the members of the association. In 2010, the membership was transferred to the European Group for Public Administration  (EGPA) and the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee), who jointly appoint members to the EAPAA board.

EAPAA is an autonomous organisation, consisting of three bodies. The board, which operates independently, determines the strategic vision of EAPAA and supervises the activities of the secretariat. The secretariat organises the day-to-day activities of the organisation, in particular the site visits. The accreditation committee, which is fully independent from the other two bodies, makes decisions regarding specific programmes and determines the quality standards underlying those decisions. 

EAPAA is a member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies (INQAAHE) and the European Alliance for Subject-Specific and Professional Accreditation and Quality Assurance EASPA.