Two EAPAA Board members, the chair of the EAPAA Accreditation Committee and the secretary-general used their presence in  Rome to meet the current President of NASPAA, prof. Frances Berry about a possible Memorandum of Understanding about the NASPAA accreditation of public administration programmes in the EAPAA region. NASPAA is offering its accreditation to ‘American style programmes’ around the world. Because both organisations don’t want compete, but rather strengthen each other, a MoU is drafted on the ‘rules of collaboration’ between both organisations. EAPAA’s aim is to stress the complementarity of NASPAA accreditation to EAPAA accreditation. A coordinated (or joint) accreditation should be promoted id a programme is not already accredited by EAPAA.