In 2021 the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency offered training to more than 1,800 people, 217% more than in 2020

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Valencia, April 28, 2022.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency significantly increased the training activities organized during the year 2021 going from the 23 activities carried out during the year 2020 to the 43 carried out in 2021. This is one of the data that emerge from the Activity Report corresponding to the year 2021 presented by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency a few weeks ago.

The number of people who participated in the training activities organized by the Agency went from 827 in 2020 to more than 1,800 people in 2021, which represents an increase of 217%.

This increase in training activities is a direct consequence, among other reasons, of the different collaboration agreements signed by the Agency with universities and other institutions that have allowed these activities to be carried out.

The central and priority objective of the training activity of the Agency is the training in an ethics and public integrity of the Valencian citizenship and for this the organized activities are mainly aimed at groups such as staff at the service of public administrations, university students and citizens in general.

With regard to the training of those people who work in the different Valencian public institutions, the Agency has participated as a teacher in 5 courses: 2 courses organized by the Diputación de Alicante on the Ley de Transparencia; a course in the Diputación de Valencia on the new challenges of public procurement; a selective tac course of the I nstituto Nacional de Administraciones Públicas (INAP), in addition to tutoring a complete course in this same institution on the prevention of corruption in the public administration.

Regarding the training activities developed in the university environment , we must highlight the 12 docufórum activities organized in the 6 universities of the Valencian Community in which a total of 445 students from different university degrees have participated.

As a result of the collaboration agreement that the Agency has maintained with the University of   Valencia since 2020, it has allowed 12 activities of the Unisocietat program  to  be held in 12 municipalities of the province of Valencia in 2021 in which 379 people have participated.  Within this same collaboration agreement, two specific conferences have been held, one on “Covid-19, rights and responsibilities” and another on “Protection of whistleblowers” held in Llíria and Torrent respectively attended by 233 people.

The training activity of the Agency has been completed with the participation in different congresses and conferences offering talks and conferences to publicize the work carried out by the Agency in the fight against fraud and corruption, the protection of whistleblowers of corruption, the frameworks of public integrity or the conflict of interest among other topics and issues addressed.

This information can be extended in the Agency’s 2021 Activity Report at the following link to the Agency’s website:

https://www.antifraucv.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MEMORIA-DE-ACTIVIDAD-2021-CAS.pdf

https://www.antifraucv.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MEMORIA-DACTIVITAT-2021-VAL.pdf

The Universitat Jaume I and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency sign a collaboration protocol to promote training and scientific actions

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Castelló, april 4, 2022.- The rector of the Universitat Jaume I, Eva Alcón, and the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, have today signed a general protocol that defines the framework of academic, scientific and cultural collaboration between the two entities to develop, through specific agreements, the specific modalities of collaboration within the areas in which both entities have manifest interest.

The meeting was attended by the secretary general of the UJI, Cristina Pauner; the Vice-President of the Agency’s Participation Council, Ana María Fuertes; and the president of the Ethics Committee, María Luisa Cuerda, the two professors of the Universitat Jaume I, as well as Teresa Clemente, deputy director and director of legal affairs, and Víctor Almonacid, director of Training, Prevention and Documentation of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

The rector Eva Alcón stressed that this protocol “encourages institutional cooperation, in this case, between the public university of Castellón and an independent and impartial entity that has entrusted, on the applied level, the prevention and eradication of fraud and corruption and the promotion of public ethics”.

For his part, the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, has pointed out that “the signing of this framework collaboration agreement with the Jaume I University of Castellón allows the Agency to participate in the training and creation of a public ethics and integrity of the students that will integrate our public and private organizations in the future”.

The protocol foresees the development, through specific agreements, of collaboration actions to facilitate the joint realization of cultural, educational, editorial and scientific activities; cooperate in general and specific training programmes and promote collaboration in research matters.

In addition, reciprocal access to bibliographic and documentation collections is also established; mutual advice; the joint development of projects and collaborative programmes in matters related to the activity of the two entities as well as technical assistance in the field of new technologies.

The scope of the collaboration also includes the student stays of the Universitat Jaume I in the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, through educational cooperation programs and carry out those initiatives that are considered of mutual interest.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency delivers its 2021 Activity Report to the President of the Generalitat

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Valencia, April 1, 2022.- The director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, has delivered this morning to the President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, the Activity Report of the Agency corresponding to the year 2021.

The event took place at the Palau de la Generalitat and is the first time that a copy of the Report is delivered in a formal act to the President of the Generalitat so that he knows first-hand the activity carried out by the Agency.

According to article 22 of Law 11/2016 on the creation of the Agency, the obligation to deliver the Report refers to les Corts Valencianes, to which it is attached, but this year it has been wanted, once the legal mandate has been fulfilled, to deliver it also to the maximum Valencian representative.

The Report includes the work carried out by the Agency in the area of training, prevention and documentation; the legal area and protection of whistleblowers; analysis and research; administration, recruitment and human resources and communication.

After the delivery of the Report, the President of the Generalitat met in addition to the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, with the director of prevention, training and documentation, Víctor Almonacid, and with the deputy director and head of the area of legal affairs, Teresa Clemente.

Once the meeting was over, the director of the Agency declared that “with this formal  act of delivery of the Report, the Agency will transfer to  the President of the Generalitat the work we are doing in the fight against fraud and corruption”.

“We believe that only through the collaboration of all institutions and public entities will it be possible to end the scourge of corruption and work together to create a strong public ethics and integrity that makes our societies much more efficient and at the service of the general interest,” Llinares added.