Since 1999 the European Association for Public Administration Accreditation helps European academic public administration programmes to improve their quality and to assure their quality through accreditation.

For EAPAA the notion 'Public Administration' includes:

• Public Administration programmes
• Public Policy programmes
• Public Management programmes.

EAPAA's mission

The European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA)

• promotes the quality of European academic level public administration programmes by developing appropriate accreditation standards for such programmes through its Accreditation Committee,
• encourages curriculum development and innovation,
• provides a forum for discussion on quality and accreditation, and 
• assures the quality of European Public Administration programmes by accrediting programmes when they apply for this accreditation.

EAPAA is an association oriented to institutions that offer academic degree programmes in public administration, public management, public policy, and the like. Together with these institutions EAPAA has built and maintained a voluntary accreditation system in order to stimulate high quality in public administration education.

EAPAA members: EGPA and NISPAcee

The European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) and the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) are the two official members of EAPAA.

EAPAA meetings are organised during the annual conferences of those organisations.

Individual public administration programmes in Europe can be affiliated with EAPAA through EGPA or NISPAcee.

EAPAA is:

• Member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE)
  
  


• Candidate member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)
  
  

• The European Alliance for Subject Specific and Professional Accreditation and Quality Assurance (EASPA)
  
  
  
  EAPAA is one of the 7 founding members. EASPA wants to be a forum for the community of disciplinary, field specific European networks of quality assurance that assess the quality of study programs, schools or professional individuals. The first act of the new organisation was the acceptance by the members of the so-called Düsseldorf Declaration in which the members pledge to support the Ministers of Education of the European Higher Education Area to accomplish their goal to complete the HEA by 2020.