SUPA

Objectives

The SUPA project aims to examine strategies for enhancing the public sector’s capabilities to cope with the escalating challenges of administrative overburdening.

To this end, SUPA pursues two interrelated objectives: The first one is to examine how decision-making procedures and practices can be improved to limit the overall burdens placed on the administration. The second goal is to explore how administrative structures can be reformed to manage ongoing rule growth effectively.

SUPA will also examine patterns of rule growth and the resulting administrative changes and challenges in six European States (Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands) and the European Union.

The project consortium is led by the University of Oslo, Norway, and includes, in addition to ECAS, the following partners:

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen, Germany

Södertörn University Sweden

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• Support the development of the crowdsourcing methodology and platform;
• Implement the crowdsourcing to gather citizens’ experiences with public authorities through the platform;
• Based on the collected data and analysis, compile best practices to address the challenges of administrative overburdening;
• Organise Brussels-based events targeting civil society organisations and aiming at raising awareness about the issue of overburdening and its implications for citizens;
• Disseminate project findings and data to civil society organisations and national partners.