Fourth day of the course “Prevention of risks of corruption in public management” at the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló.

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Fourth day of the course “Prevention of risks of corruption in public management” at the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló.

Castelló de la Plana, October 6, 2022. The interuniversity course that began on June 7 has held its penultimate day at the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló.

After the sessions of the University of Valencia, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, the course aimed at managers, PAS staff and members of the integrity commissions of the five public universities of the Valencian Community has held its fourth intervention in Castello.

Irene Bravo, head of the Prevention Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency gave the presentation “Initiatives for the prevention of fraud and corruption in public management.”

The session focused on the paradigm shift that is currently taking place with respect to integrity in public administration, the new Transparency and Good Governance Law of the Valencian Community and Order HFP/1030/2021, of 29 September, which configures the management system of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

The study of the AVAF Guide: The Public Integrity Plan: Roadmap and XXI Facilitating Annexes, approved by Resolution of the director of the Agency, no. 821, of November 15, showed that the document is oriented towards the construction of a public integrity system, strengthening ethical values ​​and mechanisms to strengthen the integrity of public institutions and reinforce the confidence of citizens.

The risk catalogs prepared by the AVAF Prevention Service were discussed throughout the session, allowing attendees to reflect on the existing risks in an organization in terms of decision-making, hiring, human resources and subsidies.

The Universitat d’Alacant will host the last day of the interuniversity course on November 8, 2022. Anselm Bodoque, Pilar Moreno and Marita Oliver, from the AVAF Training Service, and Cristina Fernández, a researcher at the University of Salamanca, will give the last session.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency exhibits its work at the VII International Congress on Transparency and Open Government in Cartagena.

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Cartagena, September 29, 2022. – The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has actively participated in the VII International Congress on Transparency and Open Government held in Cartagena through presentations presented by specialized AVAF personnel.

The AVAF Training Service, led by Pilar Moreno García, a technician in the area, presented in the working group 22-03 “Ethics and Public Integrity” the paper with an oral presentation “The teaching of public ethics and the prevention of corruption in the Valencian youth. Contributions from the Valencian Antifraud Agency.”

The training activity that has had the most roots and training development throughout the few years of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has been the “Docuforum: Corruption, harmful organism” and the presentation of the results of this training experience has been the objective of the Pilar Moreno training technique.

The documentary, produced by Pandora Box TV, thanks to micro-patronage, exposes the testimonies of the whistleblowers of the so-called “proximity corruption” and includes a subsequent colloquium in which AVAF representatives, academics and judges discuss the institutional initiatives carried out in recent years to improve the fight against corruption.

From the viewing of the documentary, the students raise their doubts and questions about transparency, integrity, protection for whistleblowers and the gifts received by those who can make relevant decisions in public administration.

The students’ perception of corruption and the issues that have the greatest impact on them in the different educational stages (ESO, Baccalaureate and University) has guided the exhibition and has greatly interested the attendees, both in person and online.

The prevention of corruption cannot be understood without training, and any culture strategy of rejecting fraud must be accompanied by actions that work to improve integrity in the public sector and in society, with university students also being the protagonists of this equation.

Tania Segovia Fernández and Juan Vega Felgueroso, lawyers from the Agency’s Directorate of Legal Affairs, gave an oral presentation entitled “Strengthening the protection of the whistleblower: the anonymous complaint” in working group 22-06. “A Directive in the process of being transposed (Whistleblowers).”

The lawyer Juan Vega explained the paradigm shift in the protection of the whistleblower that Directive (EU) 2019/1937 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of October 23, 2019, related to the protection of people who report violations of the Right of the Union.

Retaliation against the complainant constitutes an element that bases the anonymous complaint, together with the impossibility of avoiding them with the current tools existing in the legal system.

The lawyer Tania Segovia focused her presentation on the admission of the anonymous complaint between the authorities and member states that are part of the NEIWA network (Network of European Integrity and Whistleblowing Authorities). The network currently comprises 28 authorities from 20 member states.

Of those 20 countries that make up the network, anonymous reporting is accepted in 11 of them. 13 competent authorities that are members of NEIWA admit the anonymous complaint and, in addition, another 3 authorities process them by sending them to the competent authority and/or investigating them, if they consider that their content is relevant, serious and/or of interest.

The prepared paper was very well received by the public specializing in the subject participating in the working group, generating an enriching debate.

The staff of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, present in Cartagena and in online format, had the opportunity to attend a large number of round tables and exhibitions of the work of public institutions that focus their work in the field of transparency and good governance such as the table of those responsible for transparency and participation of the Public Administrations, the open session of the Network of Local Entities for Participation and Transparency of the FEMP, the Meeting of the Academic Network of Open Government (IV Plan), as well as the Institutional declaration of the State Network of Antifraud Agencies and Offices and the Workshop. Table: the whistleblower protection regulation.”

The Polytechnic University of Valencia welcomes, for the second consecutive year, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency in its participation in the teaching of the Master of Cultural Management

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The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) formalized in 2021 a collaboration framework agreement with the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) for cultural, educational and scientific collaboration. The central and priority objective of the Agency’s training activity is the ethical and civic training of Valencian citizens.

Within the framework of this collaboration, on November 28, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) participated with a conference addressed to students of the subject of Evaluation and Quality Systems and Budget Management of the Master of Cultural Management of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), taught by Professor Antonia Ferrer Sapena. The objective of the conference was to continue the task of raising awareness about the importance of public integrity and ethics to prevent fraud and corruption.

This Master offers a plural training capable of covering the different social, political, institutional and economic sectors that constitute the framework where cultural management is registered. Its purpose is research applied to the cultural sector and training for professional development in employment and cultural companies and in public cultural management.

In the activity, 33 students of Spanish and foreign origin, participated with different regulatory frameworks on cultural management; but with a similar general casuistry of problems regarding the prevention of corruption and fraud in cultural management.

The first part of the AVAF intervention corresponded to the head of the Training Service, Anselm Bodoque, who made a brief contextual reference to the general functions and activities of the Agency.

The nuclear part of the participation corresponded to the director of the AVAF, Joan Llinares, who focused on the particularities of cultural administrative management, and the main risks of fraud and corruption that can occur in cultural management.

Based on his experience in cultural management, Joan Llinares focused his intervention on the public model of museums and museum collections, emphasizing different aspects such as cultural employment and the impact of culture on the Spanish economy as a whole, to arrive at the deontological framework and focus on aspects of the ICOM code of ethics for Museums.

Subsequently, he developed the main risks of fraud and corruption that can occur in cultural management, emphasizing different situations of conflicts of interest, illustrating his exposure with various examples of malpractice that have ended up in court.

The director of the Valencian Antifraud Agency ended his speech by thanking the Polytechnic University of Valencia for the invitation and wishing all the students much success in their professional future as cultural managers.