Transatlantic Policy Consortium

{{Short description|International organization centered on public policy}}

The Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC) is a network of 42 North America and European higher education institutions that conduct education, training, and research in the field of public policy and public administration. Its ostensible mission is to promote an ongoing dialogue of students and faculty and to conduct joint research on contemporary transatlantic public policy issues.{{cite web |url=http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/veranstaltungen/bericht-62897.html|language = German|title= Transatlantic Policy Consortium - Transatlantischer Dialog in Speyer |accessdate=2012-04-04 |work=innovations-report.de website}} Papers written for the consortium's colloquia are published in the Transatlantic Public Policy Series with LIT Publishers in Germany.{{cite web |url=http://www.litwebshop.de/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&keyword=Transatlantic+Policy|title= Transatlantic Public Policy Series|accessdate=2012-04-04 |work=LIT Publishers - Berlin Münster Vienna Zurich London - website}} Current co-chairmen are professors Charles F. Bonser of Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Eberhard Bohne of the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.{{cite web|url=http://frankfurt.usconsulate.gov/root/pdfs/organizations/dhv.pdf|title=DHV Speyer|language=German|accessdate=2012-04-04|work=U.S. Consulate Frankfurt website|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015002312/http://frankfurt.usconsulate.gov/root/pdfs/organizations/dhv.pdf|archivedate=2011-10-15}}

History

The consortium developed out of colloquia on transatlantic public policy issues jointly sponsored by Indiana University O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and École Nationale d'Administration - Institut national du service public since 1997.{{cite web |url=http://www.indiana.edu/~idsspea/tpc/background.html|title= TPC: Background|accessdate=2012-04-04 |work=Transatlantic Policy Consortium website}} It was formally established in May 2000,{{cite web |url=http://www.indiana.edu/~idsspea/tpc/home.html|title= Welcome to the TPC |accessdate=2012-04-04 |work=Transatlantic Policy Consortium website}} and has been a grant recipient of the Bosch Foundation since 2008.{{cite web |url= http://www.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language1/html/23346.asp|title=Understanding among nations - Overview of 2008 Grants|accessdate=2012-04-04 |work=Bosch Foundation website}}