October 2020 – RAI School for Junior Anti-Corruption Practitioners in the SEE

RAI in cooperation with the Judicial Academy of Croatia and the UNODC Global Judicial Integrity Group and with the support of the Central European Initiative (CEI) is organizing the 15th Edition of the School for young anti-corruption practitioners from Southeast Europe (online) as a series of 4 webinars under the general topic: “Promoting Integrity in Processing Corruption Cases” in the period of 5-15 October 2020 as interactive lectures from the distinguished experts in specific areas such as corruption risk assessment, corruption proofing of legislation, integrity and conflict of interest, whistleblowing, asset declarations and on investigation, prosecution and adjudication of the corruption cases and asset recovery. In parallel, during the tour-de-table participants will share experiences and best practices in the field of integrity risks and how to improve the professional integrity.

Target participants will be young representatives from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo*, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Serbia (maximum of three representatives from each jurisdiction. Suggested profiles: two representatives from the national judiciary (one judge, one prosecutor) and one participant from anti-corruption bodies and will be selected through RAI Steering Group members.

The webinars are as follows:

Webinar One: Corruption Preventive Tools/Asset Disclosure- October 5, 2020, Monday, 13-16h (CEST)

Webinar Two: Integrity and Conflict of Interest/Whistleblowing Protection in the SEE region and other comparative experiences, October 8, 2020, Thursday, 13-16h (CEST)

Webinar Three: Processing Corruption Cases/Asset recovery, October 12, 2020, Monday, 13-16h (CEST)

Webinar Four: Disclosure of conflict of interest/Financial disclosure for judges and prosecutors-October, 15, 2020, Thursday, 13-17h (CEST)

For more details, please see the report from RAI’s first virtual school here.

RAI 2020 School concept and the agenda is available here.

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*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244(1999) and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.