The intention of the organisers is to obtain a unified and focused view of the capacity of the national public administration in both its governmental and self-governmental dimensions in terms of the challenges posed to the public administration of a Member State and an EU candidate country by the European law and decentralised, networked, multi-level and partly de-territorialised manner of performing public tasks regulated by the European and national law.

We also rely on the practical experience of the community of Self-Government Appeal Courts and Regional Chambers of Accounts with regard to the administrative capacity of their Offices and local government units.

The guiding themes will be:

1. Aims, objectives and axiology of the European Union and the Member State from an administrative and legal perspective (on the path towards communitarisation).
2. Factors and capacity to perform public tasks (national and European) by the public administration of a member state and an EU candidate - i.e. reforms and changes, as well as self-regulation and limited formalism being vectors of good, smart, integrated, networked and multi-level and de-territorial public administration (in the light of the selected EU and national regulations).
3. Integration into the European educational and scientific space in the context of the professionalisation of public officials - profits and dysfunctions of the existing status regulations for public officials: challenges and problems. 
4. The relevance of state (government) administration and its current material and formal (systemic and procedural) adaptation (diagnosis of the current state) to the performance of EU public administration.
5. The importance of local self-government and its material and formal (systemic and procedural) current adaptation (diagnosis of the current state) to the performance of EU public administration.