The Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) was established in 1994 with the mission to facilitate the East-East collaboration in the field of public administration education, training and research, and in this way to promote the human capacity building and institutional development in public administration in post-communist countries. NISPAcee was legally registered under the Slovak legislation as an international, nongovernmental, non profit organization in October 1995, with the Executive Secretariat located in Bratislava Slovakia. The current mission of NISPAcee is to promote and strengthen the emergence of effective and democratic governance and the modernisation of public administration and policy throughout the NISPAcee region (this includes New Member States of the EU, Western Balkan countries, eastern countries which include Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Caucasus countries and Central Asia countries and Turkey).