The director of the AVAF initiates the course «Prevention of risks of corruption in public management» for PAS personnel of the University of Valencia

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On February 2, 2022, Joan Llinares inaugurated, together with Beatriz Gómez, Vice Manager of Economic and Services Coordination of the University of Valencia, the course “Prevention of risks of corruption in public management” managed by the Permanent Training Service and Educational Innovation (SFPIE) of the University of Valencia.

The AVAF Training Service has prepared a 15-hour course, at the request of the university, in which, over five weeks, selected UV personnel will receive training on integrity, corruption prevention, control, the costs of corruption, among other matters.

The teachers who will teach the five modules that make up the course are part of the staff of the Agency’s Training, Prevention and Documentation Department.

The interest of the university’s SFPIE in providing quality training in integrity and public ethics to UV staff is highly relevant and is manifested through this collaboration with AVAF.

In this first day of training and reflection together with the public employees participating in the course of the University of Valencia, the director of the Agency has taught the module on the institutional system against corruption in Spain: the Agency for Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community: origin, functions and independence.

Prevention and training are the key tools in the fight against corruption and essential functions of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and where it focuses many of its efforts.

The responsibility of public employees, the need to plan in the field of contracting are some of the issues that have been present throughout the AVAF director’s conference.

33 people participate in this edition of the course, most of them technical personnel from the contracting services, legal advice, internal control office, among other services of the University of Valencia,

With this type of training activities, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency continues to fulfill one of its functions, collected at the headquarters of the 2016 creation law, training as fundamental components of the strategy to prevent corruption and improve integrity in the public sector.

Master Conference of the director of the AVAF at the University of Salamanca

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València, 2 de febrer de 2022.- The director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, has given a keynote speech within the 48th Specialization Course in Law organized by the University of Salamanca.

The conference was entitled “The new legal framework of public integrity as a result of the Whistleblowers Directive and the HFP Order 1030/2021. The function of the Anti-Fraud Agencies” and is part of the “Compliance and management of legal risks” Program co-directed by Fernando Rodríguez-López, dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the University of Salamanca

Taking advantage of the visit to Salamanca, both the director of the AVAF and the deputy director, Teresa Clemente, met with Eduardo Fabián Caparrós, director of the Master’s Degree in Anti-Corruption Strategies and Integrity Policies of the University of Salamanca, as a representative of the Study Group Against Corruption (GRESCO-USAL) and the Research Center for Global Governance (CIGG-USAL).

The representatives of both institutions have reviewed the different academic and research actions that have been carried out in recent months based on the Agreement signed last June between the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and the University of Salamanca and outlined the lines of collaboration and work to be developed in 2022, taking advantage of the excellent results obtained from the internship carried out at AVAF in recent months by doctoral student Cristina Fernández González.

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The Valencian Antifraud Agency organizes training actions in schools and institutes of the Valencian Community

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València, January 26, 2022.- The “Nuestra Señora de la Salud-Maristas” school in Algemesí has ​​been the first school to hold a training action together with the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency since until now the activities had been held only with students academic.
Aware of the importance of training for the prevention of fraud and corruption, as well as for the creation of public ethics and integrity, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has extended these activities to secondary and high school educational levels.
The Marist College of Algemesí has ​​been the first to host this docu-forum activity that has consisted of 2 sessions given in the tutoring subject. In the first session, the students watched the documentary “Corruption: Harmful Organism” which caused a great impact and interest.
In the second session that complements the learning experience, a debate takes place in the classroom together with AVAF technical staff around the questions and suggestions made by the students.
The protection of people who report corruption, the regulation of institutional gifts, as well as the need for greater transparency have been some of the issues that have generated the most debate.
This is the first docuforum action that the AVAF celebrates in schools and institutes and more training actions are already scheduled in various educational centers that have shown interest in offering this training.
Whether you are a university, secondary or high school teacher and you are interested in this activity, you can contact the training service of the Valencian Antifraud Agency at the following email: formacion@antifraucv.es