It is August 26, 2015. A crucial day during the Conference of State Parties in Cancún, Mexico. 67 of the 69 member states of the Arms Trade Treaty vote for a location of the new Secretariat. Three candidate host states and their cities are bidding: Austria (Vienna), Switzerland (Geneva), and Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain). In the first round, Port of Spain wins with 32 votes, Geneva gets 21, and Vienna drops out with 14 votes. The second round, Geneva gets 35, scooping up all of Viennaâ...

The Ultimate EU Test Book Administrators 2024 edition has been updated to reflect the new format of European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) competitions and includes hundreds of new test questions and exercises.

The 2024 Administrators edition covers the new competition process all the way through to the establishment of the Reserve List − the list of laureates eligible for recruitment to permanent posts by the EU institutions. It is packed with practical advice on how to maximise your ...

Het bouwen van een groeicultuur is geen hocuspocus; het is een werk van het duidelijk definiëren van de fundamenten en deze dan stukje bij beetje samenstellen. Om een cultuur te ontwikkelen, moeten we de doelstellingen expliciet maken, zowel op zakelijk als op persoonlijk niveau.

Engineering culture is bedoeld voor leiders in start-ups, scale-ups en meer rijpe organisaties die tot volle ontplooiing willen komen. Het boek biedt een houvast om stap voor stap een groeicultuur te ontwi...

This work presents the peer-reviewed and updated conference papers presented at the 12th Winelands Conference on Public Leadership for Added Citizen Value. In order to produce good results, public leadership must be ethical and effective. Context is important when seeking to understand the concept of public leadership as well as to provide guidelines for action. Such an understanding is imperative when the focus is on effective and ethical public leadership that adds value to the lives of cit...

Created with direct input from students and packed with advice and guidance from leading industry experts, this textbook walks readers through the steps necessary to deliver a team-based project, facilitating the development of key employability skills along the way.

Created with direct input from students and packed with advice and guidance from leading industry experts, this textbook walks readers through the steps necessary to deliver a team-based project, facilitating the development of key employability skills along the way.

In Brussels lobbying is the oil that makes the wheels go round. No institution, no member state, no political group, no special interest can push a policy through unaided. Everyone needs allies, and everyone needs to lobby. But while Brussels has many lobbyists – only Washington is said to compare − only a few operate on the level of the superlobbyist.

Step by step, and with many revealing and candid anecdotes of his own successes and failures, Brussels public affairs specialist Milos Lab...

The Ultimate EU Test Book Assistants 2020 is specially designed for candidates preparing for European Personnel Selection office (EPSO) competitions at Assistant (AST and SC) level. It is relevant to all Assistant-level EPSO open competitions and CAST selections.

The 2020 edition is the biggest Assistants edition ever and full of strategies, advice and practice exercises. The focus is on the computer-based multiple choice question tests which prove an obstacle to so many. Included are methodo...