In the 2023-24 academic year, the #DocofòrumAVAF returns to the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia

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The #DocufòrumAVAF learning experience, created by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency for the debate on corruption in the classrooms of educational centers in the Valencian Community, is one of the most in-demand training activities of the AVAF.

Since the 2022-2023 academic year, the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia has included the AVAF’s Docufòrum Universitari activity in the Center Innovation Project (PIC).

The #DocufòrumAVAF is an activity aimed at promoting the social culture of civic ethics, public integrity, fraud prevention and rejection of corruption among students of all University degrees.

On this occasion, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has debated these issues with students of the Criminology Degree. Thus, on Tuesday, November 14 and Wednesday, November 15, 2023, two new #DocofòrumAVAF were held at the Faculty of Law, University of Valencia.

80 students from the first-year Skills and Abilities subject participated in the training activity. The activity had the collaboration of Professor Vicenta Tasa from the Department of Constitutional Law. Anselm Bodoque Arribas, head of the AVAF Training Service, was responsible for energizing the debate session with the students.

Once they have watched the documentary “Corruption: Harmful Organism”, the students ask questions focused on the origin and causes of corruption, the social impact and the collective costs it entails, the perception of corruption in our society and in other countries in our country. around.

Subsequently, the representative of the AVAF debates with the students the issues raised in their questions and others related to the need for greater public ethics and integrity, prevention strategies and civic training or the functions of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and public policies. fight against corruption.

In the debate, the students showed interest in the economic effects of corruption and its impact on social inequality. They were also concerned why there were no whistleblower protection policies and when they are implemented. Finally, they showed interest in the existing corruption prevention policies in Spain and the Valencian Community.

The activity has been organized in collaboration with the University of Valencia, which we thank for its interest and willingness to help create a culture of public integrity and rejection of fraud and corruption.

If you are a university, secondary or high school teacher and you are interested in the #DocufòrumAVAF training activity “Corruption: harmful organism” being carried out in your subject, do not hesitate to contact the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency through from formacion@antifraucv.es.

The director of the Georgia Anti-Corruption Office visits the Agency

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València. november 13, 2023.- Razhden Kuprashvili, director of the Georgia Anti-Corruption Office, has visited the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency to learn about its operation. Georgia is currently immersed in the process of integration into the European Union and is being evaluated by the Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe to learn about the legislation and active policies it is developing in the fight against corruption. The Georgia Office has been recently created and with this visit they wanted to learn about the operation of the Valencian Agency and its experience in the field of investigation, training and protection of people who report corruption. Staff from the different areas of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency have given a presentation of the work they do.

#DocuforumAVAF present for the first time in the Economics degree at the University of Valencia

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Valencia. – November 9, 2023.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, with the training activity “Docuforum AVAF: Corruption: harmful organism”, carries out the first training activity in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Valencia to discuss fraud and the fight against corruption with university students.

With the celebration of this #DocuforumAVAF, the AVAF resumes its awareness-raising and dissemination activities of its prevention work in Valencian universities in this academic year 2023 – 2024.

With the aim of participating in the empowerment of youth in matters of integrity, the Agency participates in the #UnitedAgaintsCorruption #UnidosContraLaCorrupción celebration on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the 2023 United Nations Convention against Corruption.

The protagonists of the learning experience have been the first-year students of the subject of Learning Instruments and Techniques of the Degree in Economics of the University of Valencia, thanks to the collaboration of Professor Vicente Zamorano.

The “Docuforum AVAF” activity is held in two sessions. The first of them involves watching the Pandora Box TV documentary “Corruption: Harmful Organism” in the classroom. Afterwards, the students express their doubts and questions about the issues raised in the documentary.

On Thursday, November 9, Anselm Bodoque, head of the AVAF Training Service, organized a debate in two sessions, morning and afternoon, for nearly 150 students around the doubts of those present regarding the social and economic costs of corruption, strategies to combat corruption and the work of the Agency in the Valencian Community.

If you are a university, high school or 4th year ESO teacher in the Valencian Community and are interested in having the training activity “Docuforum: Corruption, harmful organism” carried out in your classroom, do not hesitate to contact the training service of the Valencian Antifraud Agency through formacion@antifraucv.es