The director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Antoni Llinares, and the director of Legal Affairs, Teresa Clemente, have met with the president of CSIF Comunidad Valenciana, Alicia Torres; and the regional vice-president, Rafael Cantó, at the agency’s headquarters. The meeting was used to analyze and study ways of collaboration in the protection of people reporting corruption in the field of public administrations.
Salamanca and València, October 15, 2021.- The University of Salamanca and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency have signed a collaboration agreement thanks to which both institutions different actions such as those provided in the framework of the “GIR-Justice, penal system and criminology”, the “Master’s Degree in Anti-Corruption Strategies and Integrity Policy”, the “Doctorate Program in the Rule of Law and Global Governance” and the “Research Center for Global Governance” of the University of Salamanca.
The agreement has been signed electronically by the Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies and Own Teachings of the University of Salamanca, Nicolás Rodríguez-García, and by the Director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares and includes a broad framework of collaboration between both institutions.
One of the first actions to be carried out within this agreement will be a 4-month research stay for a student from the University of Salamanca as part of the preparation of her doctoral thesis. The operation of the Agency and its experience in the prevention and fight against corruption in the public sector, and especially in the protection of persons reporting corruption, have been the reasons for requesting said stay.
The vice-rector for Postgraduate and Own Teaching, Nicolás Rodríguez highlighted the relevance of this agreement, which highlights the need that “in the design and application of preventive and repressive actions against corruption, institutional cooperation is encouraged, in this case, between a public university and an independent and impartial entity that is entrusted, at the applied level, with the prevention and eradication of fraud and corruption and the promotion of public ethics ”.
On the other hand, the director of the AVAF, Joan Llinares, has indicated that the “Master of the USAL on prevention of corruption has an international recognition, which is why this agreement will allow the Agency to host doctoral candidates who are doing this master ”.
At the signing of the agreement, as well as the Vice Chancellor and the Director of the Agency, the University of Salamanca has been present by the professor in Criminal Law and Director of the Master in Anti-Corruption Strategies and Integrity Policy, Eduardo Fabián and the student Cristina González. The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency was attended by the Director of Legal Affairs, Teresa Clemente, and the Director of Analysis and Research, Gustavo Segura.
A new academic year has started and with it the training activities of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency in the universities of the Valencian Community.
We have made the first docuforum at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, on Thursday, September 30, 2021, with the attendance of the students of the Public Ethics subject of the fourth year of the Political Science and Administration degree.
Having seen the documentary “Corruption: Harmful Organism”, the students starred in the training experience with their questions, focused on how corruption can be fought, its economic and social cost, the functions of the AVAF, how to protect people who report it. corruption and the characteristics of the complaints of corruption that are presented to the Agency, among other issues.
The debate generated, with the active participation of the students, insisted on procedural and technological guarantees to protect the anonymity of whistleblowers and on integrity and ethics, both individually and collectively.
The debate also served to explain the regulatory framework, specific functions, scope of competence of the Agency, as well as the forms of collaboration with other similar entities in Spain and the European Union.
The activity has been organized in collaboration with the Cardenal Herrera University, which we thank for its interest and willingness to help create a culture of public integrity and rejection of fraud and corruption.
If you were a university, Secondary or Baccalaureate teacher and you are interested in having the training activity “Docuforum: Corruption, harmful organism” carried out in your subject, do not hesitate to contact the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency through from formacion@antifraucv.es
Review of the docuforum activity “Corruption: Harmful organism” in the Delibrecracia blog of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University:
La Agència Valenciana Antifrau imparte un Taller sobre Ética Pública
