06/09/2019

UIC Barcelona hosts the 7th International Workshop on Efficiency in Education, Health and other Public Services, attended by around a hundred international researchers

The academics, from 21 different countries, presented 40 studies and also attended two master classes.

UIC Barcelona recently hosted the 7th International Workshop on Efficiency in Education, Health and other Public Services, with around a hundred international researchers in attendance. Between Thursday 5 September and this Friday 40 studies related to efficiency in the public sector were presented.  

Specifically, the academic researchers who participated in various workshops presented studies focused on efficiency applied to both primary and secondary education and university education, in the health sector, banking, public administration, the evaluation of public policies and the energy sector.  

The event included two master classes given by professor Pablo Arocena from the Public University of Navarre, and Yancy Vaillant, a professor from Toulouse Business School.

This was the seventh edition of the international workshop, which has previously been held in Thessaloniki (Greece), London and Huddersfield (England), Louvain (Belgium), Milan (Italy) and Budapest (Hungary).