Abstract. Public administration presents a specific and intricate system of components and relations. The recent period of development in our society has been characterised by a lot of transformation processes of Slovakia as well as of other countries. The significant transformation processes brought about reform processes in public administration which have been accomplished in recent years but nevertheless globalisation is the reason for introducing new conditions pointing out many open questions and revealing problems to be solved and many challenges to met as well. In the submitted paper we consider managing selfgovernment in a wider context and the position of public university as a medium of scientific research and development in the economy of state.

Keywords: public administration; public relations; private relations; philosophy of management; international relations.