National School of Public Administration (Poland)

The National School of Public Administration (Polish: Krajowa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej, abbreviated as KSAP) was established in 1990 by Tadeusz Mazowiecki government. An inspiration for its founders was French École nationale d’administration. The aim of the School is to train civil servants for the public administration of the Republic of Poland. The School is located in Warsaw.

Training at the School lasts from 18 to 20 months. The programme is focused on the following learning paths: law and administration; economics and public finance; the European Union and foreign policy; management and soft skills development. Students do two internships in Poland and one abroad (usually in the European Union country).

The National School of Public Administration was established on 30 May 1990 by a resolution of the Polish Council of Ministers. As in the École nationale d’administration, every students’ year chooses their respective name and is called a "promotion". In September 2016, the twenty-eighth promotion began its training at the School. Recently, there have been around 35-40 students starting their education each year. Most of graduates work in Polish ministries.

A founder and a long-year director of the School was a lawyer Prof. Maria Gintowt-Jankowicz. In 2012-2016 Jan Pastwa, a former Ambassador of Poland to the Czech Republic and KSAP graduate was KSAP director.

The school was the first establishment of its kind in a former Communist country. KSAP cooperats with public administration schools in other countries, providing partners in Ukraine, Afghanistan, or Myanmar) with trainings and workshops.

There have been over 1100 graduates of KSAP so far. The most-well known alumnus of the School is Elżbieta Bieńkowska, the European Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, who formerly served as Minister for Infrastructure and Development of Poland, as well as Deputy Prime Minister in Donald Tusk cabinet.

Other alumni are Mariusz Błaszczak, a current Minister of Interior and Administration,Władysław Stasiak, a former Minister of Interior and Administration in Jarosław Kaczyński Cabinet,Robert Kupiecki, a former Deputy Minister of National Defence and former Polish ambassador in the United States,Waldemar Dubaniowski, a former member of the National Broadcasting Council and a former Polish ambassador in Singapore.

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