2019-2020 CALL FOR PAPERS

Graduate students, do you have fresh ideas for improving the federal public service and service excellence for Canadians? Are you ready to contribute your ideas? The National Student Paper Competition is your chance to be heard by some of the most senior leaders within the Federal Public Service! 

If your paper advances to the finals, it will be posted on the Institute of Public Administration's website, and the top five students will present their work to a panel of Deputy Ministers. This stage of the Competition offers your work a prestigious profile and makes it accessible to both public servants and the broader public. 

The Grand Prize winner will receive an offer for a four-month paid work placement, a certificate of achievement from the Clerk of the Privy Council, and an invitation to attend the Manion Lecture in the National Capital Region.

If you are a student enrolled in a university Masters or PhD program which is based in Canada, please read the guidelines and key dates and submit a paper to your university coordinator by February 2020. If your program does not have a university coordinator, please share this initiative with your faculty dean so that one will be identified for you.