The AVAF holds four docuforum sessions on the same day. The Valencian Antifraud Agency continues to promote ethics and public integrity among Valencian youth

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The learning experience “Docuforum on ethics and public integrity”, created by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency for the debate on corruption in the classrooms of the Valencian Community, is one of the most demanded training activities of the AVAF.

Last Wednesday, May 4, 2022, the AVAF Training Service carried out four docu-forum activities in two of the public universities of the Valencian Community and in a public institute in Alzira.

The José María Parra Secondary Education Institute held the first of the day’s docuforums and the first held in the town of Alzira (Ribera Alta). The training activity took place in the subject of Economics in the 1st year of Baccalaureate and was carried out with the collaboration of the teacher Marta Tormo. On behalf of the Training Service, Pilar Moreno, AVAF training technician, intervened, who answered the doubts and questions of the 17 students of the subject.

The Universitat Jaume I of Castelló hosted the second of the docuforums on Wednesday, May 4. Led by Marita Oliver, the Agency’s training technician, the activity was attended by more than 65 first-year students of the Journalism Degree. The great participation of students in the session made it possible to appreciate that they were very interested in knowing the reason why in Spain there is no state agency to fight fraud and corruption, in anti-corruption strategies and in the regulation of institutional gifts. .

The Law and Political Science degrees of the University of Valencia were the framework in which the last two docu-forums of the day were held.

The students of the Criminal Law subject, from the 3rd year of the Law degree, taught by Professor Clara Viana, were very active in the elaboration of reflections, doubts and questions, focused, among others, on the protection offered to fraud and corruption alert persons, and in the Valencian corruption prevention system. Anselm Bodoque, head of the Agency’s Training Service, was in charge of stimulating the debate with the students.

The last of the docu-forums held on May 4, in the subject of Administrative Law in the 2nd year of the Politics Degree, taught by Professor Desamparados Segura, generated many questions and an intense debate by the attending students. Doubts and questions were answered by Teresa Gascó and Carmen Domínguez, technicians from the Prevention Service, and by Anselm Bodoque, head of the AVAF Training Service. The debate focused on the obstacles faced by the Agency, how citizens could help reduce fraud, and how corruption affects the quality of life of citizens and the progress of countries.

The ethics and public integrity docuforum is organized in two training sessions. In the first of them, the students watch the documentary “Corruption: Harmful Organism” and other AVAF audiovisual materials in the classroom together with the collaborating teacher. As a result of the doubts and questions raised by the young people, transferred to the Agency, the second session was created, led by the AVAF staff.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency continues to bring the institution, its objectives and functions closer to high school and university education classrooms, to participate in the formation of a more informed youth in the fight against corruption, integrity and transparency.

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

Debate on the prevention and fight against corruption in the classrooms of the Universitat Jaume I

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The AVAF maintains its proposal for public debates with future professionals through training actions that reinforce public ethics to reinforce the culture of prevention and fight against any conduct that encourages fraud and corruption.

Thus, on April 27, a new activity was carried out in the university classrooms, this time with the students of the subject Protection of citizens against the Administration, from the second year of the Degree in Management and Public Administration of the Universitat Jaume I Castelló, thanks to the collaboration and participation of Professor Isabel Fabregat.

After seeing the documentary “Corruption: Harmful Organism”, the students who star in the training experience ask questions and propose action, focused on the origin and causes of corruption, its effect and costs, the perception of corruption in our society and with respect to other countries around us, what to do in cases of corruption. Questions that were answered by Marita Oliver, AVAF training technician.

The debate with the students allows them to reflect on the ethical limits and micro-corruption and fraud, which every professional encounters throughout their lives, as well as possible conflicts of interest. On this occasion, in addition, the students showed a special interest in reporting and protecting whistleblowers, given the characteristics of the subject.

The discussion also served to affirm the need to reinforce public ethics and integrity, as well as prevention and civic education, and the rest of the functions of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

Note, finally, that the students insisted on the importance of the media and institutional communication as a factor that modulates the social perception of corruption, as well as the information provided on the different cases.

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

“Warning systems and integrity in public management” the first course of the Valencian Antifraud Agency in the Diputación de Valencia.

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On March 30, 31 and April 5, 7 and 12, the sessions of the first course prepared and taught by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency included in the General Training Plan 2022 of the Valencia Provincial Council were held. The 15-hour online course has had AVAF staff as teachers and in which a face-to-face workshop was held at ADEIT.

Joan Llinares, director of the AVAF, oversaw opening the course with an open and online conference “The institutional system against corruption in Spain: The Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community: origin, functions and independence” which was followed by more than 70 public employees (local technical staff, national authorized personnel and employees of the Diputación de Valencia itself)

Initiatives to prevent fraud and corruption in public management was the subject of the second session of the course, given on this occasion by Irene Bravo, head of Prevention at AVAF. On that day of the course, the 24 selected students had the opportunity to learn in detail about the AVAF Guide regarding the need for public integrity plans. Access and download at the following link: https://www.antifraucv.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/12_220311_Actualizacion_Guia_avaf_plan_de_integridad_publica.pdf.

Marita Oliver, AVAF training technician, focused the second part of the session on April 5, on the following phases of the cycle of the fight against corruption: Alerts, complaints and investigations. The complaints mailbox of the Valencian Antifraud Agency, as an external complaint channel, was presented in detail for the information of the course participants.

The costs of corruption and public policies against corruption in Europe and Spain, was the session given by Anselm Bodoque, head of the AVAF Training Service, which allowed an approach to institutional quality studies.

The face-to-face workshop for the course “Public integrity and the detection of the most common risks” took place at the ADEIT on April 12, led by Anselm Bodoque Arribas, Pilar Moreno García and Marita Oliver Carbonell, training staff from the HVA.

The viewing of the documentary “Corruption: Harmful Organism” by Pandora Box and “Public Management Planning: Good Governance Tool” prepared by the AVAF in collaboration with the University of Valencia, allowed a very enriching individual and group debate and reflection about the public administration in relation to integrity, prevention of corruption, risks of fraud and planning in public management.

Thanks to the collaboration of the Training Service of the Valencia Provincial Council, the AVAF has had the opportunity to share with the 24 selected students, public employees of the local administration of the province of Valencia and the provincial council itself, the importance of the integrity plans, the institutional system to fight corruption and the anti-fraud cycle, among others, which we hope has been of interest to the students.

We invite you to watch the interview with Joan Llinares, director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency within the framework of the course: “Warning Systems and Integrity in Public Management”, included in the General Training Plan 2022 of the Valencia Provincial Council. #FormacióDival

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