Toolbox course - Integrity, transparency and anti-corruption

A few hours

Intermediate

Course details

The online course ‘Integrity, transparency and anti-corruption’ aims to increase public administration officials’ knowledge about tools to promote integrity and transparency, prevent and detect unethical behaviour and increase public trust.

The objectives of this online course are to increase public administration officials’ knowledge about how public administration can implement measures to combat corruption and promote integrity, such as creating a code of ethics, conducting corruption risk assessment and establishing whistleblowing mechanisms.

It consists of a 120-minute-long asynchronous learning module composed of three units, including reading, reflections and self-assessment quizzes.

Target audience

The target audience of this online module are public administration officials across the EU.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of the online module, it is expected that participants:

Understand the importance of integrity in public administration and identify key ethical values and standards that should guide public officials.
Understand the role of laws, regulations and institutions in combating corruptions.
Define key concepts in risk management, understand the steps involved in conducting a comprehensive risk assessment, as well as possible approaches to managing sector-specific risks.
Understand the different international and national legal frameworks designed to combat corruption.Identify different preventative measures to deter corruption, such as merit-based recruitment, ethics training and administrative simplification.

Offered by

This content is offered by the European Commission. The European Commission is the European Union's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.