The contribution was based on the long-term cooperation of the Silesian University in Opava with the University of Hochschule Harz, Halberstadt. The cooperation of the Department of Administrative Sciences, Harz University of Applied Sciences, with the Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy, Faculty of Public Policies, Silesian University in Opava, has developed both at the level of exchange stays of teachers and students. Cooperation was also devoted to research activities and existing approaches to research in the field of public administration, with ministries and nationally recognized institutions, local governments in Saxony-Anhalt, the German Federal Republic and the Czech Republic. As part of the collaboration, a joint publication on the development of local administration in Germany and the Czech Republic was published in 2018 (ISBN 978-3-941636-26-2). The long-term cooperation resulted not only in the implementation of projects on current challenges in public administration, with a focus on local self-government, but also in a publication on the topic of Think administration in an interdisciplinary manner. In this publication, Chapter IV is devoted to scientific partnership in the field of public administration in the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. The contribution was created for the 25th anniversary of the Department of Administrative Sciences of the Harz University of Applied Sciences, German Federal Republic. It is an excerpt from the publication Think administration in an interdisciplinary manner. In this regard, the above-mentioned authors believe that it would be appropriate to publish a contribution in the journal Central European Papers, published by the Faculty of Public Policies, Silesian University in Opava.

Keywords: cooperation, college, science, projects, exchange of experience